Moving Pictures

Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures

Amusing satire on Hollywood, where every cliche is slyly ridiculed. Lots of crazy characters, with big parts for some who are bit players in other books, like Cut-My-Own- Throat Dibbler, erstwhile seller of very dodgy meat products in Ank Morepork, but here, by dark magic transformed into a Sam Goldwyn/Cecil De Mille sort of producer determined to produce some great epic, "Blown Away" (a GWTW clone). We have the development of the movie world at a gallop here, great fun, and even get the wizard professors of Unseen University involved in saving the day when evil creatures from other dimensions are making an effort to break through into Discworld via the silver screen of Holywood. Oh, and my favourite scene is where Death, WHO SPEAKS LIKE THAT AS USUAL, sits invisible in a bar knocking back large glasses of rum one after another, and asks the barman for a packet of nuts! Great entertainment, though a little bit too long for me.