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If you have read Terry Pratchett, you already know that any of his books will make you snort with laughter when you least expect it, and this one is no exception. All Pratchett's books are 5 star in my estimation. This one has even more elements of parody than some of them. You can probably guess of what. If you have not read Pratchett, I would not necessarily recommend this as the first book to read. He has lots of repeating characters and some of the humor in his works comes from the reader's familiarity with them. Oddly, I would also not recommend the first Disc World book (The Color of Magic). He was just getting traction then. I personally like the Weird Sisters series, Mort and its sequels, and the Men of the Nightwatch series. Also Going Postal and Making Money. But frankly, all of Pratchett's work is charming, whimsical, ironic and just plain hysterical, so you really can't go wrong with any of them. Nobody can turn a phrase like the Brits, from Saki to Wodehouse to Pratchett to a lot more I probably don't know about.


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Moving Pictures Discworld Terry Pratchett 9780062237347 Books Reviews

Sir Terry puts a delightful, sarcastic of Hollywood in this delightful story. Of course, there is a supernatural content. After all, Discworld is magic. It is told from the points of view of a star actor, a star actress and Ank Morpork's most active entrepreneur. There are some surprising parallels in people and artifacts between the fictional movie center and the one in California.
Greater detail would force me to write spoilers into this review, but I will gladly correspond about your favorite parts, or just those that make you laugh out loud on Facebook.
The last priest of Holy Wood, a sandy little hill near Ankh-Morpork, dies without a successor.

Were his daily chants and rituals actually holding something at bay, or were they the meaningless drivel of a dead religion?

Soon after his death, an alchemist in Ankh-Morpork invents the moving picture--the difficult part was to keep the film from exploding. Victor Tugelbend, perpetual student-wizard and "the laziest person in the history of the world" sees the first moving picture projected on a sheet in an Ankh-Morpork square. The next thing he knows, Victor is on the road to Holy Wood, along with C.M.O.T. Dibbler, low-life purveyor of 'sausage inna bun' and Gaspode, the Wonder Dog (the only one of the three who was smart enough to hitch a ride in a lumber wagon).

Holy Wood is now a ramshackle town, thrown together practically overnight and overflowing with humans, dwarfs, and trolls who want to make moving pictures. Companies like 'Century of the Fruitbat Moving Pictures,' and 'Floating Bladder Pictures' are cranking out two-reelers like 'Sword of Passione,' 'The Third Gnome,' and 'Turkey Legs.'

Victor falls into the role of leading man. Dibbler extorts his way into the role of leading producer. Victor's leading lady, Ginger keeps dreaming that she's standing on a grate with hot air blowing up her skirt---that is when she's not walking in her sleep and trying to wake Something slumbering in the cave beneath the brand new city.

Reality is stretching thin between worlds. When Dibbler decides to make a moving picture about Ankh-Morpork's Civil War, called 'Blown Away,' Holy Hell breaks loose.

"Moving Pictures" is Pratchett's satirical look at everything Hollywood, with puns and allusions rocketing overhead like shooting stars. Many of his references are way over my head, e.g. 'Floating Bladder Pictures' and a moving picture called 'Turkey Legs,' but movie aficionados should nail down every one. At least I figured out the golden statue named Oswald (or Osric), and the gigantic woman climbing the Tower of Art with a tiny ape clutched in its hand.

Basically, a good time is had by all in "Moving Pictures." Although it is not as deeply philosophical as some of Pratchett's Disworld novels, Gaspode, the Wonder Dog does have some great lines, especially when he's shooting the breeze with the Rabbit, the Mouse and the Cat, and the Duck (waack waack waack waack! Sorry Walt).
My favourite Terry Pratchett quote yet "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
His characters & plots come alive with his wizardry sarcastic & humerous story telling. Excuse my Klatchian, but this was damn funny!
Disc World's clicks are familiar yet oh so startlingly different. The pop culture references, irony & word play make his books so fun to read; you have to keep your corner of your brain sharp to catch all the humor.
As always, the plot moves along quickly & there's never a dull moment on the Disc. In this book we reconnect with old friends & places & meet new exciting & zany characters. I've never caught Mr. Pratchett out making a mistake from earlier novels; his characters & geography flow from book to book.
I want to visit Disc World & have a sausage in a bun!!
The real problem with a parody about the motion picture industry is that nothing Terry Pratchett writes can really compete with the inanity of the real thing. But he gave it the good old college try. Victor Maraschino and Delores de Syn and Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler tell the tawdry tale of Holy Wood in which ancient dark powers conspire against the good of heart.

And Mustrum Ridcully, the Arch-Chancellor of the Unseen University makes a bold first appearance as a rustic, semi-homicidal crossbow-wielding maniac and Ponder Stibbons the Discworld's luckiest and weirdest post-graduate magical student.

The portrayal of the University faculty and the adaptation of scientific advancements into the Discworld's magical "technology" are often hilarious.

But the story just isn't at the same level of intricacy and insight as Going Postal, the Truth, or the various adventures of Captain Vimes and the Watch.
The evil spirit of Tinseltown invades Discworld. Lots of fun movie references. Unfortunately, many are to very old films, that are meaningful to old film fans. If you remember the half-clad strongman who began every J. Arthur Rank (British) film in the mid-20th century by bashing a huge disc-shaped brass gong, you will chuckle at the allusion. If you are not old enough, you are actually better off!

Gaspode the Wonder Dog is the hero of the story, and the wisest character, though he's the only one who knows it. But Sir Terry and I appreciate him, and, despair not, he appears on several later stories.
If you have read Terry Pratchett, you already know that any of his books will make you snort with laughter when you least expect it, and this one is no exception. All Pratchett's books are 5 star in my estimation. This one has even more elements of parody than some of them. You can probably guess of what. If you have not read Pratchett, I would not necessarily recommend this as the first book to read. He has lots of repeating characters and some of the humor in his works comes from the reader's familiarity with them. Oddly, I would also not recommend the first Disc World book (The Color of Magic). He was just getting traction then. I personally like the Weird Sisters series, Mort and its sequels, and the Men of the Nightwatch series. Also Going Postal and Making Money. But frankly, all of Pratchett's work is charming, whimsical, ironic and just plain hysterical, so you really can't go wrong with any of them. Nobody can turn a phrase like the Brits, from Saki to Wodehouse to Pratchett to a lot more I probably don't know about.