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  1. RathDarkblade

    The Discworld Word Game

    Ah, yes. I haven't read Moving Pictures in decades, which is why I must've forgotten. I thought Soll was an apprentice pyramid builder (Soll ==> Sol ==> Sun ==> Hot ==> Pyramids). ;) Llamedos ==> Souls, Well of (Death has one!) :)
  2. T

    The Discworld Word Game

    Soll Dibbler appeared in Moving Pictures. Soll ==> Llamedos
  3. Who's Wee Dug

    New Discworld Audios

    ...von Lipwig (February 2023) and City Watch and Tiffany Aching (April 2023). The standalone titles – Pyramids, Small Gods, The Truth,Moving Pictures, The Amazing Maurice and Monstrous Regiment – will also be published. A very special Christmas edition of The Hogfather read by Sian Clifford will...
  4. R

    New Discworld Companion

    Thank you for the correction about Mrs. Cosmopolite. But my point about Purdleigh stands. He wasn't a major Discworld novel character, so why give him so much space? Again, I think this is because Briggs wanted to put so much of his own writing in these things. Put it this way: In the 1997...
  5. Molokov

    New Discworld Companion

    Mrs Cosmopolite appears in Moving Pictures, and in Lu Tze's memory in Thief of Time (and of course, we hear a lot more about her "Way" in that book). Roderick Purdeigh was introduced in The Discworld Mapp, and presumably further expanded on for the Atlas. Although, as Raisindot says, they are...
  6. RathDarkblade

    SPOILERS Maskerade Discussion *Spoilers*

    I'm afraid I have to disagree, raisindot: 1. As a reader, I like the roundworld cultural parodies like Moving Pictures and Soul Music, and seeing how many things I can recognise. :) 2. If a roundworld cultural parody means a book is "unworthy", what about "Wyrd Sisters"? There are loads of...
  7. R

    SPOILERS Maskerade Discussion *Spoilers*

    I agree. It's my least favorite of the Witches books. To me it's much closer to the roundworld cultural parodies of Moving Pictures and Soul Music than it is to the great Witches books. There are no real dramatic stakes here. No real headology challenge for Granny. It's just a backstage musical...
  8. Molokov

    Some thoughts on books

    This might be the case, but the published script definitely has that (small part) character as Rincewind... So, perhaps he changed it back before the script was published?
  9. RathDarkblade

    Top eight books ,Polled

    ...an extended riff on various themes (e.g. "Wyrd Sisters"/Shakespeare, Maskerade/opera and live theatre, Soul Music/rock 'n roll, Moving Pictures/films and Hollywood). Thief of Time, also, is a fantastic riff on various end-times prophecies, everything you ever thought you knew about Asian...
  10. Tonyblack

    Some thoughts on books

    Definitely Moving Pictures is a special book as it introduces, Ponder, Ridcully, the Faculty and Gaspode the Wonder Dog. Detritus becomes more fleshed (stoned?) out.
  11. T

    Some thoughts on books

    Just a sort of footnote: Moving Pictures was the first novel in which Ponder Stibbons appeared, but the name was first used in the dramatization of Mort (I'm pretty sure). in the novel,- Rincewind is the one who fails to give Albert his staff at a dramatic moment, but Steven Briggs felt those...
  12. Molokov

    Some thoughts on books

    ...2. On the whole, I agree with you about the early books. You're correct about the UU Faculty led by Ridcully first appearing in Moving Pictures - the characters for each of them are gradually established over several books, but that is the first definitely appearance of Ridcully, Ponder...
  13. W

    Some thoughts on books

    ...as known later (as a stable-ish squabbling system headed by Ridcully without much reliance on Dead Men's Pointy Shoes) I think it's Moving Pictures where Ridcully the Brown is set up as a hearty proponent of huntin' shootin' and fishin' while the other wizards want big dinners and a quiet...
  14. Tonyblack

    DISCMOJI

    1. Monstrous Regiment 7. Colour of Magic 17. Witches Abroad 20. Jingo 29. Moving Pictures? 30. Men At Arms? 31. A Hat Full of Sky 33. Interesting Times 34. Makerade 36. Wee Free Men 39. Snuff 40. Shepherd's Crown I missed this first time around, so I've gone with the ones Rath got wrong...
  15. Who's Wee Dug

    Moving Pictures offer.

    On Amazon £1.99. Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10) (Discworld series) eBook : Pratchett, Terry: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
  16. RathDarkblade

    DISCMOJI

    ...(???) Yes -- the mirror (feminine symbol) is when Angua joins the watch. 2. Pyramids 3. The Light Fantastic 4. Unseen Academicals 5. Moving Pictures (love the 1,000 Elephants!) =D 6. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents 7. ???? This is too hard. =( 8. Soul Music 9. Making Money 10...
  17. Quatermass

    The Watch update

    ...with Vimes being, well, obstructed at every turn, including Vetinari, though Vetinari at least does it partly to encourage him? Moving Pictures and Soul Music are very similar, every Moist von Lipwig story has Vetinari forcing him to use his skills to revamp some public service...I could go...
  18. RathDarkblade

    The Discworld Word Game

    Yan, Big => Gigalith (a troll god, mentioned only in Moving Pictures)
  19. RathDarkblade

    Mrs. Bradshaw's Handbook

    Oh! *puzzled* OK, then. It's been a long long time since I read MP. Maybe that should be my next book on the list (again...) ;) I agree. There's something delightful in every entry in Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook. If you've read the books (and let's face it - if you haven't, why are you here? ;))...

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