Discworld Moving Pictures: A Novel of Discworld, Book 10, (Paperback)

from love2laf

Pratchett creates Holy Wood, a Discworld recreation of hollywood, with so many references to so many movies, it'll make your head spin, in a laugh out loud way. I should probably try and savour this series, but the more I read, the funnier it is. Like Monty Python, it gets better every time.

from gercmbyrne

Terry Pratchett is a god who walks among men. The entire Discworld series is a joy and only a strange mad creature cursed by gods and man would refuse to read and love these books!

from Herenya

Discworld's take on Hollywood -- here, called “Holy Wood”. At first, I didn't care one way or the other for the characters (and at first there weren't any female characters), but they grew on me. Pratchett is being very clever and very funny, and I really enjoyed it. Also, I was pleased to see De...

from jobinsonlis

Pratchett is at his best when he's writing fun characters and at his worst when he's satirizing something too closely. Unfortunately here his two main characters are fairly average and the Holy Wood stuff is spread way too thick. Ridcully is probably my favorite character so I was happy to see hi...

from gayla.bassham

This is mediocre Pratchett. Now granted, even mediocre Pratchett is still pretty good, but I was disappointed. I was looking forward to a Hollywood parody, but most of Pratchett's great characters don't appear or only make cameos, and the main characters in this book (Victor and Ginger) bore me.