Moving Pictures: Discworld, Book 10

A great sendup of Hollywood. Over and over he's set up jokes for laugh-out-loud pay-offs later. Quite entertaining.

I love Sir Pterry Pratchett's writings, and Nigel Planer did a very good narration of his version"Moving Pictures," but I regret to say that Jason Isaacs has no ability to do a variety of voices. Most of his characterizations sound as though he was speaking through a larynx that had been severely damaged from having been strangled.

One of my favorite Pratchett books! This is actually a re-purchase as my old paperback copy fell apart from being read so many times. I'm a big fan of hollywood history, and I love the fantasy spin on in that Pratchett has put on it here. It's funny and inventive, full of fun anachronisms, and even a little sweet at times.Though this discworld novel falls outside of the various groupings of books Pratchett has created (such as the group of night watch books, or Rincewind books), there are still several familiar faces. Cut Me Own Throat Dibler makes a memorable appearance as one of the discs first movie producers, and I believe this is the first book to feature Gaspode the Wonder Dog. You'll also see some cameos from Ankh-Morpork, including old Windle Poons and the other wizards at Unseen University.It's a great standalone story, though, and a good jumping-in point for anyone new to the discworld series. There were several passages that really did make me laugh out loud on one or two occasions, and grin widely on several others. Despite always being classified as a "humor writer", Terry Pratchett's stories also have a warmth to them that many other authors lack. The characters are well-written and are the types of characters that feel instantly familiar as soon as you meet them. This isn't just a funny book--it's smart, witty, touching, intriguing, and sometimes a little zany. And well worth reading.

If you are a classic movie fan you will get all the gags. Even if you only get 50% of the gags this is worth reading a second and third time.

i can't seem to access more Pratchett on Kindle other than samples. His work is more satire than fantasy, but it is entirely engaging, and occasionally can scare you, kid or adult.

Though it starts a little on the slow side, there's great humor by the end in particular involving the librarian and a giant screen monster. "Throat"Dibbler plays a major role, rather than being a simple comic device.

Moving Pictures is the tenth book in his Discworld series and is a fairly standard Discworld novel, not particularly remarkable but solid. It’s a witty parody on Hollywood and 20th/21st century life.It meets the standard for this series meaning it's humorous, clever read full of great characters and colourful ideas. There are some ongoing Discworld characters that spring up from time to time so while it’s a standalone book it helps to read the others. Not quite a 5 star read.

Up til now, "The Truth" and "Twisted Sisters" (hell, they're all good, find a really bad one, just one!) were my favorite discworlds. But this ... this insane sendup of Hollywood grabbed me by the medulla oblongata, wrung it in 3D, and I KNEW that, verdad, this IS the stuff that dreams are made of.Pratchett's captured the very spirit of the Thing emanating out of that hillside in Socal and created a hilarious sendup of it. From page one, you know the game is afoot, magic will be made, and, and, The Show Must Go On.Moving Pictures premiers my most beloved Discworld character, Gaspode. Why Gaspode? one may ask. Because for me it's personal. I am a Gaspode in real life, the horrible bulletheaded fleabit plain as mud mutt whose intelligence, wit and competence everyone ignores, looks over (literally, in this case) while they remain entranced with the beautiful, grace and magnificence of Lassie, cleft-chinned, handsome wonder dog to whom the gods gave less brains than a head of lettuce.As Gaspode, green with jealousy (and probably other things) grumbled of Laddie under his horrid breathe,"A star is whelped."Oddly, Picture's weakest characters are the bigger than life stars Victor and Ginger. Off screen, two dimensional, passionless, not the sharpest tacks in the board, these two. But the magic of cellulose has created from them Characters Bigger Than Life. So, though other reviewers here have criticized Pictures for this seeming fault, I believe Pratchett, displaying subtlety finer than a footnote, penned the two just that way with Great Purpose~ in order to frame, to display, to PROJECT the dissonance twixt the reality of stardom's real lives and the magic of fame born of the silver screen.The closest I can get to an actual Critical Review* would be to mention that Pictures transparently** reveals The Formula which Pratchett employs in several of his works such as The Truth and Soul Music. And we, the audience, are NEVER to look at The Man Behind The Screen, right? Right?*Everyone's a critic, right?**It's part of the ... entertainment value that reality is suspended and being able to see the backside of the props, er, REsuspends it, so to speak.

Motion pictures have come to the Dicsworld and everyone wants to be a part of it!

I really enjoyed this book. It cleverly blends discworld with our own through a very creative premise. I found the story very relatable. I know that some people prefer Terry Pratchett's later books and having read this as my tenth discworld book, I now have a sense of why.

Das Buch an sich ist ein Geschenk aber es kam alles heile an! :)Das Cover sieht total cool aus und das Buch scheint eine gute Qualität zu haben.

Libro fantastico ma amazon me li consegna sempre ammaccati

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