Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
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3/5. Early Pratchett about the Discworld doing Hollywood, at least until an ancient evil from the dungeon dimensions awakes. This has its moments, but it's from that long stretch where a lot of the funny is supposed to be from characters being taken over by some random force that makes them blurt out things from our world. It's not particularly funny, but I also disliked it more the more I thought about it in general. It's doing something weird in a book which, like many of his, is about how stories are supposed to go, like how of course our heroes will get there just in time, not too late, but that doesn't mean they can pause for a rest, that's cheating. In that frame, the way our earth systems have this narrative gravity makes them seem like the "right" systems, the "right" stories. Which is not what he meant, but it came across that way.
3/5. Early Pratchett about the Discworld doing Hollywood, at least until an ancient evil from the dungeon dimensions awakes. This has its moments, but it's from that long stretch where a lot of the funny is supposed to be from characters being taken over by some random force that makes them blurt out things from our world. It's not particularly funny, but I also disliked it more the more I thought about it in general. It's doing something weird in a book which, like many of his, is about how stories are supposed to go, like how of course our heroes will get there just in time, not too late, but that doesn't mean they can pause for a rest, that's cheating. In that frame, the way our earth systems have this narrative gravity makes them seem like the "right" systems, the "right" stories. Which is not what he meant, but it came across that way.