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Flight 714 (The Adventures of Tintin) (Paperback)
by Hergé
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Adventure, Fiction, Ages 9-12, Children's book |
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Author: Hergé
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub. in: April, 1975
ISBN: 0316358371
Pages: 62
Measurements: 11.4 x 7.8 x 0.2 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00150
Other information: 9th American ed edition
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Reader opinion is divided over the merits of Flight 714. Far and away, the most modern of Belgian writer - Herge's Tintin comic books - Flight 714 deals with industrial espionage, aliens, and a surprising amount of gunplay for a Tintin adventure. Some fans saw it as an unwelcome departure from the quaint European jet-setting of books past; more than that, however, the book shows that Herge understood that the world was changing. The Cold War had begun, and the people were unsafe in new and frightening ways. For all that bleakness, the book is more action-packed than many of the others, and it ends happily, as does every Tintin book. It's also the next-to-last book in the series, followed by Tintin and the Picaros.
Target readers:
Kids aged up 6
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Hergé (pseudonym of Georges Remi), Belgian author and illustrator, created Tintin in 1929 and produced 24 volumes of the internationally famous bande dessinée by the time of his death. Known as the father of the modern European comic book, Hergé's impeccable style and superb use of color won him international acclaim after the Second World War, and the books have been translated from the original French into some 40 languages.
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Flight 714 is sort of the generic Adventure of Tintin, with a little bit of everything that Herge put into his stories to make this one of the landmark comic book series since Cortes discovered pre-Columbian picture manuscripts in 1519. A Qantas Boeing 707, Flight 714 from London touches down at Kemajoran Airport in Djakarta, java, last stop before Sydney, Australia. Disembarking is our hero, Snowy, Captain Haddock, and Professor Calculus. As they stretch their legs the good Captain spots a forlorn figure and slips a $5 bill into the man's hat. Of course no good deed of Haddock's goes unpunished and it turns out the old man is Mr. Carreidas, "The millionaire who never laughs." Well, Professor Calculus quickly takes care of that and Carreidas insists on flying Tintin and his friends to Australia on his special jet. Haddock is looking forward to a pleasure trip, an ordinary flight and no adventures, but fate has something else in mind.
Flight 714, which actually does not have a single panel of the titular plane being anyplace other than on the ground, offers up a hijacking, a cutting edge prototype means of transportation, an exotic island in the middle of nowhere, an evil scientist with truth serum, a gigantic stone head pagan idol, a threatening lava flow, the return of an old familiar villain, a space ship, and Tintin running around a lot with a gun. Pretty much all of these elements have popped up in the previous twenty Adventures of Tintin that Herge had told over the previous decades. For that reason this particular adventure strikes me as something of a curtain call for Tintin and his friends, even though this is the penultimate tale and the Thom(p)sons are no place to be seen. The chief charm is that Calculus has somebody new to tangle with in Carriedas, thereby relieving Captain Haddock of the responsibility for testing the eccentric professor's patience.
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Danielle Payne (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
Flight 714 (Vol 714 Pour Sydney in French) is the ideal Tintin adventure. It has all the elements that a good Tintin story needs: wonderful art, a gripping plot with interesting twists, good dialogue, but above all its best feature is the fantastic interplay between the characters. The one scene where Lazslo Carreidas (the diminutive billionaire who never laughs - a great character) has an argument with Rastapopoulos over who is more evil is terrific. Along with Tintin in Tibet, The Castafiore Emerald, The Calculus Affair, and Tintin and the Picaros, this one is definitely in the top five. |
Salil (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
Yet again, we get a glimpse of Herge's creative genius in this action-packed Tintin adventure. This Tintin adventure is unlike any other simply because it has hints of being based on some sort of a magical success-formula, not unlike one that would ensure a James Bond movie box-office hit! In sort, it features an eccentric millionaire, an airplane hijacking, a secret island base of Tintin's archrival- the evil Rastapopulous, the return of Captain Haddock's nemesis- Allan (from The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Red Sea Sharks), and also the return of a friend-Skut (from The Red Sea Sharks), lot's of gunmen, volcano eruptions, and even a mysterious alien encounter. The plot is quite simple: Rastapopulous wishes to obtain millionaire Lazslo Carreidas's fortune by kidnapping him and getting him to, rather willing fully, reveal his wealth-related secrets- of course with the aid of a scientist's "truth formula" injection. However, getting Tintin, Captain Haddock, Snowy, and Professor Calculus into the picture changes the simplicity of the equation. The artwork, as is the case with the last Tintin book (Tintin and the Picaros), is simply outstanding among all Tintin books-which are already top quality in the first place! One scene I fondly remember is that of Allan catching sight of a monkey and then trying to recall who it reminds him of (based on the shape of its nose), and then realizing that it reminds him of none other than his boss-Rastapopulous. Herge's drawing of Allan's facial expressions (and even Rastapopulous's, as he seems to realize what's in Allan's mind) in this sequence, yet again, displays how effortlessly he could make his characters "talk" to the reader. It is peculiar to note how different this adventure is to its preceding one-The Castafiore Emerald, in which, our heroes don't even leave Marlinshire. Perhaps, Herge himself longed for Tintin to go on another exciting adventure. Definitely, one of the best Tintin stories, great for all ages and very entertaining! |
Rich (MSL quote), UK
<2007-01-05 00:00>
Probably the greatest example of the Herge studios ART, Flight 714 is a great book. The illustrations, now with the benefit of an airbrush (see the final pages in the caldera) are SUPERB and thrill me everytime I see them. Apart from the Erik von Daniken references, which seem to date the book somewhat, this is a classic. The comic highlight is the grotesque encounter between Rastapopolous and the hideous Carreidas in the prison on the island. They battle to out-do each other, in terms of evil deeds. And it's an absolute masterstroke. But the whole book has an immense 'atmosphere' to it, helped, I think, by the beautifully rendered depiction of the island, the eerie subterranean passages, the presence of an older civilization and the thrilling 'caldera' finale. BUY it. READ it. And then read it again. It's a genuine classic that will be read for many generations to come. |
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