Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett Reviews

The tenth Discworld novel, Moving Pictures is also one of the best, offering plenty of opportunities for Pratchett's cavalcade of great characters, crazy storylines and clever gags. The plot sees the alchemists discovering the secret behind making "moving pictures" (films to you and me). Of course, in the Discworld, things are ...  Read the complete review

The ninth book in the Discworld series, this was the first of Pratchetts novels that I had picked up in quite a while having rather overdosed on his work when I was younger. Set on a flat disc of a world supported by four elephants who in turn ride on the back of a huge turtle swimming on its journey through space, this is as good a place as any ...  Read the complete review

Yes, there are a few Terry Pratchett books in my review section. That should say something of my opinion of his work by itself. Moving Pictures is, like most of his novels, a Discworld book, set on a fantasy world that moves through the universe carried by four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle. Once you've got in the right frame of ...  Read the complete review

The Discworld is, of course, a flat world carried on the backs of four elephants that balance on Great A'Tuin, a giant space turtle. To suggest in any way that around the fifth book the turtle should have been quietly rewritten as a space cash cow would be churlish. Terry Pratchett has made a fortune out of writing a brilliant series of novels set ...  Read the complete review

Cheese on toast, chocolate covered peanuts & cherry flavoured cola. Just three examples of how sometimes combining two ingredients can produce something even better that the sum of it’s parts. As a confirmed movie addict and now a keen Discworld disciple imagine my delight at reaching book ten in Terry Pratchetts massive fantasy series. ...  Read the complete review

Victor Tugelbend, Student Wizard and professional exam failure saves an alchemist from a band of robbers. The alchemist offers Victor a job in “Moving Pictures”, the latest craze, which will soon capture the world’s imagination. The only catch is, Victor must move to the mythical place known as “Holy Wood” a ramshackle town of wooden buildings ...  Read the complete review

This book tells the story of how movies arrived in the Discworld. The Discworld is Terry Pratchett's best-known creation: a flat world populated with - amongst others - granite trolls, bearded dwarfs, friendly zombies, as well as every conceivable type of human. They live (mostly) peaceably alongside each other, in a culture somewhat ...  Read the complete review

This will quite probably be the hardest book review I have ever done. This isn’t because I didn’t like Moving Pictures – on the contrary, I LOVED it and thought it was brilliant, Terry Pratchett is indeed a genius! But this isn’t a straight-forward book or one that is easy to explain, but I will try. Years ago, I ...  Read the complete review

The Alchemists have made a surprising discovery, if you treat certain chemicals just right, you can project images on a screen, called moving pictures. Of course, this is much better than a play, as every performance is perfect each time, so there's a big market for it, and soon there's a whole town devoted to making moving pictures, at ...  Read the complete review

This was the first ever Discworld book that I read. At first I wasn't quite sure what was going on - was this suppossed to be this funny? In retrospect - DUH! I think this is a good starting point for the series, it is a stand-alone book, epic in a way. An alternative to how the movie industry COULD have started up. If you lived in a world ...  Read the complete review