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... Convenient Wife - Michelle Styles
Historical Romance (Regency). Book not quite as bad as title. 2/5
222. Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
Fantasy: Discworld Industrial. Quite clever, some very good moments, but a bit too similar in tone to some of the other books. 4/5
22 ... Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett ... machinations depend upon him/it!) as in Going Postal and the abomination that was Making Money (and, lets face it, Moving Pictures, The Truth, Feet of Clay, Thief of Time etc). We have beautiful-but-dim girl (again), plain-but-brave-and-intelligent girl (ditto – normally I like ... ...
Five are books I've yet to read at all - Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Monstrous Regiment, The Truth and Moving Pictures - and one is a replacement copy of Feet of Clay, which I had to buy because the people at the library very unreasonably expected me to return their copy ... "Why can't we find a way of getting sound?"
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (OK, it was the book before the one I'm reading now, but it was still on the bedside table and it was so appropriate).
"What, you mean like dwarfs and gnomes and so on?" 170. 8. River Secrets
171. 9. Sourcery
172. 10. Moving Pictures ... work out. We'll see.
Other than that, I just finished Witches Abroad. I think that leaves my Discworld reading list at Moving Pictures, the ancillary books (Science of Discworld, etc) and any more Mr. Pratchett get to write. ... the Guard - would that be Guards! Guards!? Or one of the first with the Witches (Witches Abroad?). I'm also a fan of Moving Pictures (a spoof on Hollywood), the spoof on music ("music with rocks in it", but I can't remember the name of the book!), Sourcery, and I thought Small Gods ... ... can be even more vivid when left to the reader's imagination after the characters have been so thoroughly built up.
56) Moving Pictures was in parallel with Brighton Rock for the imes when I needed something a bit lighter. It left one unanswered question though - how did Gaspode get his ... ... ntastic*
2. Equal Rites
3. Mort
4. Sourcery
5. Wyrd Sisters
6. Pyramids
7. Guards! Guards!
8. Eric
9. Moving Pictures
10. Reaper Man
The Play's the Thing
1. Clouds by Aristophanes
2. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
3. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
... Moving Pictures? ... keep typing 2007?)
Yesterday I went out to take some books to the second-hand store (*gaspshock*). I came home with:
Moving Pictures, Men at Arms and Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
Fables 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
The Hedge Knight ... moving pictures? Moving Pictures? Paxie, I finished Moving Pictures not too long ago and I highly recommend it. But you should also know, the entire thing does NOT take place in Ankh-Morpork. Much of it is in Holy Wood. But I'm sure you'll love it.
Also, Just finished Lords and Ladies very good.
Just started Reaper Man ... ... ted:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Next on the list:
Breathers - to continue the zombie theme
I'll try to get to Moving Pictures (another reread) but it may get bumped off for something new.
My TBR pile is more of an amorphous puddle right now. At least I won't have a problem ... ... there not a touchstone for that one?) I have $5 for Borders, so I'll probably scoop that one up. I was also considering Moving Pictures since it's in Ankh-Morpork, and I really love the city, though I'd probably never ever want to live there. :-D Except last time I was in at Borders (Sunday ... 25. The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
26. Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
27. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
I have to say that I think Brave New World ought to be a mandatory read for everyone, I liked it a great deal. It's hard to say why thought as it's a quite disgusting books at ... ... lot of standard fantasy cliches then the original few colour of magic et al work well, but they are far from his best.
moving pictures looks at Holywood and the film industry, small gods pokes fun at abrahamic religions, maskerade parodies the Opera, the last continent steriotypes ... Moving Pictures? moving pictures? Moving Pictures is one of my favourites too, only a step behind the Mort ones. You have good taste :) #90 - glad I could help :-D
42) Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
Synopsis from Google Books:
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 ... 45. Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
9/10 moving pictures? Moving Pictures? Moving Pictures? Just finished Moving Pictures my 3rd Discworld in a row. Think i'll come up for air, for awhile, anyway! 8^) Finished Moving Pictures #5 in my quest. I will have to speed up if i'm to come anywhere near 75. 8^) Moving Pictures is correct! is it Moving Pictures? Just can't seem to find my way out of Discworld-reading Moving Pictures now & still reading In the Land of Invisible Women. 8^) Moving Pictures 8^) ... L Space has a PDf reading guide, and any of the starting points Equal Rites, Mort, Guards Guards or moving pictures work equally well. More books for my TBR list
An Excellent Mystery
A Short History of Nearly Everthing
Moving Pictures
Saving Fish from Drowning
The Sourcerer's Companion
Hogfather
I'm now reading: Marley & Me, In the Land Of Invisible Women, Always Coming Home, An Excellent Myst ... How about Moving Pictures? My Favorite at the moment has to be The Truth
My least favorite is Moving Pictures only because I had to pick one and that was the only one I can't recall all that well. I'll have to read it again soon. ... own copy of? If you haven't read them, given the similarity of our tastes in fantasy, I'm sure you will love them! Although Moving Pictures is not one of my favorites. Today:
#5 for the year, Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
I just got several Discworld books for half price at a B. Dalton that was going out of business. I'm super excited! ... ding
X 1) Equal Rites
X 2) Wyrrd Sisters
X 3) Harry, A History
X 4) An Excellent Mystery
X 5) Moving Pictures
X 6) The Heretics Apprentice
X 7) The Pilgrim of Hate
X 8) Wizard's Hall
X 9) The Summer of The Danes
X10) A Morbid Taste for Bo ... ... Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett
Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama
Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth - Grant Morrison
The Knife Thrower And Other Stories - Steven Millhauser
New Moon ... ...
2. Neil Gaiman - Coraline - finished 2/14/09
3. Terry Pratchett - The Truth - finished 3/12/09
4. Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures - finished 3/?/09
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
... Pratchett
4. Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
5. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
6. Eric by Terry Pratchett
7. Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
8. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
9. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett ... ers
Wyrd Sisters
The Year Of Magical Thinking
Disgrace
Guards! Guards!
The Prestige
20th Century Ghosts
Moving Pictures
Dreams From My Father
Small Gods
An Anthropologist On Mars
The Graveyard Book
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Lords And Ladies
Collected Fictio ... I was SO GOOD for SO LONG... then the other day I caved and bought Moving Pictures and Dreams From My Father (one to celebrate the election, the other because every girl needs some Pratchett in her life).
Sigh. So much for a spending freeze. I think we're talking talking dogs here - is it Moving pictures? ... book if it's not actually funny. I probably should not have simultaneously started The Divine Comedy.
I've switched to Moving Pictures. Finished No. 82.
Starting No. 83, Terry Pratchett's Moving Pictures. This is one of the books I bought over the weekend. TBR pile down to 58 I've got a lot of Discworld to get before that one! A friend's bringing back Eric with her from the UK for me, but Moving Pictures is probably going to have to wait until I go back myself at Christmas. Or are ebooks the way to go? I haven't decided yet.
Anyway, No. 78 finished.
Starting No ... ... 14.
Box Office: 01202 723588.
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UK, Updated - KATS World Premier of Terry Pratchett's Moving Pictures adapted for the stage by John Hicks and Kevin Miller will be performed from 31st July to 2 August 2008 at Kennet School, Thatcham. Tickets cost 8 GBP, see ... ... time. And we'll both feel awkward about that.
As books go I was considering Good Omens, but then I thought maybe Moving pictures, because he loves film... Review for Moving Pictures
Not quite as funny as some of the other Discworld books. this one takes on Holy Wood. It's fun, but not roll on the floor laughing fun. I liked Gaspode the Wonder Dog and I love the Librarian, so I was happy that he had a part in this one.
... the rest. I have been feeling crummy, so sitting down with a good book is just about my speed. I got all the way through Moving Pictures yesterday, and it was nice to have something fun to read to take my mind off feeling bad. ... - done
2. For Time and All Absurdity - done
3. Bachelors Anonymous - done
4. Leaven of Malice (audio) - done
5. Moving Pictures - done
6. Witches Abroad - done
7. Reaper Man - done
8. Pigs Have Wings - done
I'm rereading my Discworld books and I'm reading Equal Rites right now. Just finished Moving Pictures and before that Small Gods. I'm not rereading all of them, just the ones that didn't grab me the first time around. ... the inside pages of the books and most of the time I don't read the back cover). I just happend to see Wyrd Sisters and Moving Pictures tucked behind the Dan Simmons book I was checking out. Then it dawned on me it was series. I immediately bought The Colour of Magic and The Light Fa ... ... I'm broke and my local library stinks for books, I'm rereading books at the moment. I just finished Terry Pratchett's Moving Pictures and now I'm reading Equal Rites by the same author. I have no idea what I'm going to reread next. I'm starting Moving Pictures now. All the Holy Wood allusions are great fun. Favorite silly thing right now is "Final Frontier" Not much of a frontier if there is nowhere to go after that. :) Paraphrased, of course. 16. Moving Pictures
Well, that wraps up January, I finished Moving Pictures on the 31st. 16 is pretty respectable, considering all the flying around the country and starting a new semester I did. I won't be able to maintain it though, I have too much reading to do for school. I still have a ... ...
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Mort
Sourcery
Wyrd Sisters
Pyramids
Guards! Guards!
Faust Eric
Moving Pictures
Reaper Man
Witches Abroad
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Men at Arms
Soul Music
Interesting Times
Maskerade
Feet of Clay
H ... ... are marked as Ancient civilisations in the chart (Small Gods & Pyramids) + one of the Industrial revolution novels - Moving pictures. ... on religion & belief in Carpe Jugulum is part of why I love it so much. Equally, if you haven't seen many films, Moving Pictures can be kind of a dead loss! I realise however that some themes are fairly universal, e.g. death ;-)
I know lots of people suggest Mort as a starting ... ... isn't up there with his best but particular joys that spring to mind are Night Watch and Jingo: a Discworld novel.
Moving pictures was another great.
I could go on here so I'll round off with a mention for two of his "young adult" books, The wee free men and A Hat Full of Sky.
... ... Or how about Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones?
My favourite fictional dog, though, is Gaspode the Wonder Dog from Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett, also making frequently recurring appearances in the Discworld books after that... ... Heaven and Hell by John Jakes
The Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
Star Trek: New Frontier by Peter David
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
Bullfinch's Mythology
Okay, that's eleven. And I'm sure I'm forgetting some, so this list is always on the fluid side. ^_^ #11 - yes, you just did ;-)
I felt that the proportion of "weirdness" between real life LA and Moving Pictures is the same as for, say, real life faculty and the wizards of Unseen University... But that's just me, eh?
#12 - Yes, I enjoy Night Watch for the same reasons that you do, Stringcat ... *picture me with really big eyes!*
I just LOVE Moving Pictures for the Hollywood parody! It could have been that my reading it coincided closely with me actually staying in LA, but in my view it's quite right on target...
Good thing tastes differ :-) ... How can ya go wrong adapting what Shakespeare stole from others. (Midsummer Night's Dream for those not familiar.)
Moving Pictures and Wintersmith are real close together as far as bad goes. MP for being truly forced and WS for being too, "OO! Paint my room pink!" ... now I'll say Jingo
(there are actually seven contenders to this one; which I enjoy most depends on mood - Small Gods, Moving Pictures, Night watch, Reaper Man, Feet of Clay (Discworld), Soul Music and Witches Abroad)
Least: Going Postal (Discworld)
*edited when I saw how ... ... although there's a definite tie-in with the City Watch books, as the focus is on completely new characters. Pyramids and Moving Pictures are two others I see as being particularly fine examples of stand-alones.
My own personal favourites have changed over the years. At first it was Death, ... ...
There are plenty of stand-alone books in there too - try Going Postal for a giggle at the expense of the Postal Service; Moving Pictures for a crack at the film industry; or Pyramids for an escapade in a land not unlike ancient Egypt and some fun with an unwilling assassin…
And if the D ... ... are smelly... amongst other things!
I don't remember the first appearance of the imps, but they have a crucial part in Moving pictures, which happens to be one of my favourites... ... For example:
Shakespeare fan: Wyrd Sisters
Music fan: Soul Music
Newspaper/media lover: The Truth
Film buff: Moving Pictures
Scientist: The Science of Discworld
Other "starter" fantasy could include some Tom Holt (comedic, but real-world enough not to scare people off!), ... Which did I read first? It's so long ago I had to think long and hard, and finally came up with Moving Pictures, followed by Pyramids, which was a lucky choice because neither one has any of the main characters of the main series -es. (What's the plural of series? serii?)
Anyway, my two ... ... The Night Watch (more for the theme and the characters than for the story, 'tough), Witches Abroad, Small Gods, Moving Pictures... well, you see what I mean.
The newest work, like Going Postal, Monstrous Regiment and Thud! is not as good, even if I enjoyed them... I feel Prat ... ... )
Sourcery (Rincewind)
Wyrd Sisters (Lancer Witches)
Pyramids
Guards! Guards! (Night Watch)
Eric (Rincewind)
Moving Pictures
Reaper Man (Death)
Witches Abroad (Lancre Witches)
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies (Lancre Witches)
Men at Arms (Night Watch)
Soul Music (Deat ... ... favourite character of the series for sentimental reasons.
My favourite of the whole series is probably a tie between Moving Pictures and Soul Music, with Pyramids not far behind. I also really like the Science of Discworld series, and must put in a plug for Stephen Briggs's ...
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