Highlights From Moving Pictures

Highlights from Moving Pictures

Ahhh the alchemists guild

The FACIAL HAIR

The facial hair one is my favorite. But I'm also very fond of Smells vs Explosions

I'm revisiting Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C Wrede again. Such a good comfort read. I love this series. I have a feeling I'm about to reread the whole rest of the series too (library permitting)

Moving Pictures, Terry Pratchett

Basically, this one’s okay, in the damned-by-faint-praise sense of okay.

I remembered Moving Pictures as kind of a B- or even C-tier Pratchett book, but I decided to give it another read. (See when I reread Pyramids I liked it more than I expected)

Within the Discworld there are the “topic” books. They usually are standalone, and they’re about a topic, and they’re... okay? Like there’s Moving Pictures and Soul Music and Pyramids. But some of the “topic” books are pretty good (like Small Gods, The Truth, Going Postal, Making Money, and Raising Steam). Unfortunately, Moving Pictures isn’t one of them.

The weakness of the topic books is that they kind of are a vehicle for jokes and references about a topic. If I was more into cinema and cinema history, I’m sure I’d have found this one a lot funnier. But the central plot is weak. I assume that’s because Pratchett was just not as strong a writer at this point in his career.

I read Moving Pictures. It gave me a popcorn craving. It kind of didn’t feel like it had a central theme that resonated.

Good points

Gaspode the Wonder Dog

Ridcully the Brown (and the Bursar, pre-breakdown)

some good jokes about the alchemists

we get to see CMOT Dibbler really starting to fulfill his epic destiny (flimflam salesman of the highest degree)

I probably will read it again, when enough time has passed that I forget how overwhelmingly ‘eh okay’ the book is, but it probably won’t be for a long time

Nobody writes like Sir Terry

I was today years old when I realized the "pink novelty [candle]" nanny ogg only brings out for "guests with the right sense of humor" is probably shaped like a penis and not a skull.

Every single time I read these books I realize something new. I've lost count how many times I've read them and there's always something

Finished rereading Illuminations! Still good. I got emotional at the end, although it is hard to tell if it's because of the story or if it's just my fragile emotional state 👍👍👍

It's been like 1 day and I'm already off the rails. Dad has gifted me a book he enjoyed and thinks I would like. Since i tend to either read a book in the 1st week fo owning it or never read it at all, I sat down and read the 1st chapter that night.

Sorry, solstice woods.