Moving Pictures

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Call Number: Fantasy / Pratchett, Terry
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fantasy / Pratchett, Terry	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally published: London : Gollancz, 1990.
A zany bunch of futuristic actors--Victor, the eternal student; Ginger, the milkmaid; Dibbler, the sausage salesman; and Gaspode, the talking dog--embarks on an epic movie project.

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my beloved diskworld submitted by ferdoble on August 11, 2011, 3:57pm To describe Terry Pratchett’s books is a difficult thing to do. The disc world series is in a word fantastic. Terry Pratchett, would seem to use the disk world, to take any theme, or know story and then twist it in his own very humorous way. These are not always laugh out loud funny (sometimes they are), bur rather the sort of funny that just sort of lifts your spirits a little bit.

I will say that in some cases there isn’t always a really strong story, sometimes its just his characters moving through one of those twisted themes. I like them all, you may want to start with the Most Von Lipwig story line (“Going Postal” and then “making money”) as at least the first one has a really great story line.

I love to pepper my reading queue with these books to keep all those books that take themselves seriously fresh and interesting.

I recommend reading them ALL.

OR listening to them. The two main narrators of Terry Pratchett’s books are Stephen Briggs & Nigel Planer and they take Terry Pratchett’s phenomenal writing to a whole new level.

Great book submitted by maggie_aa on August 25, 2018, 10:44pm fantastic book

good submitted by .-.-.-. on June 25, 2021, 6:29pm Pretty good. Interesting book with interesting characters, there are many twists and generally there is always something going on. Great, exciting read.

The movies on Discworld submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on June 24, 2022, 11:53am In "Moving Pictures," Terry Pratchett mercilessly satirizes Hollywood and the film industry. "Moving Pictures" is set on the fictional Discworld as is part of a series of novels dealing with the industrial revolution happening there. The novel mocks, through parallel motifs, the TV show "Lassie." In this novel, the dog is "Laddie" and is particularly stupid.
Pratchett also satirizes huge movie productions, particularly of the 1920s and '30s, that included excessive use of large sets, animals and casts. The book also parodies the making of "Gone with the Wind," "King Kong" and Disney's "Snow White."