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  • A bit of a longer book, Moving Pictures ensures the reader doesn't get bored by shilling out excitement and laughs throughout the story.

    We meet up with a very studious and smart wizard student who works very hard so he can laze around and do nothing, and a beautiful farmer girl with dreams of ... Continue

    A bit of a longer book, Moving Pictures ensures the reader doesn't get bored by shilling out excitement and laughs throughout the story.

    We meet up with a very studious and smart wizard student who works very hard so he can laze around and do nothing, and a beautiful farmer girl with dreams of being famous. Along the way we find animals that talk, banged kernels, and a 50 foot girl hauling an ape up a tower.

    

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• ― flanderb said on Oct 31, 2006 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Discworld's pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they've discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can't sing, he can't dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingénue from a little town (where else?) you've probably never heard of.

But the click click of moving pictures isn't just stirring up dreams inside Discworld. Holy Wood's magic is drifting out into the boundaries of the universes, where raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas are beginning to ferment into a really stinky brew. It's up to Victor and Gaspode the Wonder Dog (a star if ever one was born!) to rein in the chaos and bring order back to a starstruck Discworld. And they're definitely not ready for their close-up!

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