Finished: Moving Pictures
Like Soul Music, Moving Pictures is a parody, not of a book, but of a whole cultural movement. Soul Music dealt with the birth of Rock & Roll (“Music With Rocks In” in Discworld); Moving Pictures took on early Hollywood and the birth of the silent movie industry. As you can imagine, everything is referenced and parodied - the rise of the movie studios, the lives of actors, the creation of stars and starlets, the wildfire way the movies swept over the imagination of the people. And just as with Soul Music, the overall effect is the same - it’s too much for the Discworld to take, and the veil between the worlds weakens, and the Dungeon Dimensions start to creep in, etc, etc.
Quite excellent.
Have read:
The Color of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Mort
Small Gods
Equal Rites
Wyrd Sisters
Soul Music
Guards! Guards!
Sourcery
Pyramids
Eric
Moving Pictures
Up next: Reaper Man
May 11, 2006, 08:06AM PDT | 1 cheer | 1 comment
Finished: Eric
As several people have said, this is the weakest one so far. But still enjoyable—you get an extended Trojan (Tsortian) War parody, an overall Faustian plot, some insight into Discworld’s cosmology/demonology, and more of Rincewind being cowardly.
Have read:
The Color of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Mort
Small Gods
Equal Rites
Wyrd Sisters
Soul Music
Guards! Guards!
Sourcery
Pyramids
Eric
Up next: Moving Pictures
Mar 02, 2006, 06:15AM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments
Finished: Pyramids
Now, can anybody explain to me what happens at the very end of the book, between Teppic and Ptraci? All it says is that they “kiss chastely”, and the camel notices that some kind of decision was made. So… what happens? Does he stay in the kingdom?
Have read:
The Color of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Mort
Small Gods
Equal Rites
Wyrd Sisters
Soul Music
Guards! Guards!
Sourcery
Pyramids
Up next: Eric
Feb 20, 2006, 08:35AM PST | 0 comments
Finished: Sourcery (now I want to know what happens to Rincewind!)
Have read:
The Color of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Mort
Small Gods
Equal Rites
Wyrd Sisters
Soul Music
Guards! Guards!
Sourcery
Up next: Pyramids or Eric
Feb 02, 2006, 07:11AM PST | 0 comments
Finished: Guards! Guards!
Have read:
The Color of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Mort
Small Gods
Equal Rites
Wyrd Sisters
Soul Music
Guards! Guards!
Up next: Sourcery
Jan 13, 2006, 07:12AM PST | 0 comments
Just finished: Soul Music
Fun, and full of music and rock-and-roll puns. I love Susan’s character, plus… it has Death on a Harley. Hard to go wrong here.
Reading next: Guards! Guards!
Dec 27, 2005, 11:37AM PST | 0 comments
Have read:
The Color of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Mort
Small Gods
Equal Rites
Wyrd Sisters
Currently Reading: Soul Music
Many to go.
Nov 28, 2005, 04:18PM PST | 0 comments