Book #67 of 2021:Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #10)A weaker effort from author Terry
Book #67 of 2021:Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #10)A weaker effort from author Terry Pratchett, and a little too dependent on referential humor, where the entire joke is something like, “Wouldn’t a Discworld version of Gone with the Wind be hilarious?” I’m also still mostly familiar with this setting through the stories about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, and the main characters here aren’t nearly as interesting. As I complained recently for a different title, these disposable protagonists utterly fail the basic tests of a] what do they want?, b] why?, and c] what are the stakes for not getting it? And although that might matter less if the novel were funnier, the satire is unfortunately so broad that it never really lands for me either.The writing has its clever moments, as I suppose does the idea of Hollywood as a Lovecraftian entity / Platonic concept extending its influence into reality for mortals to instantiate, but overall the plot is more of a snooze than I expect from this series, and there’s just not enough else in the book to distract from it.[Content warning for sexism, slavery, and torture.]★★☆☆☆–Subscribe at https://patreon.com/lesserjoke to support these reviews and weigh in on what I read next!–Find me on Patreon | Goodreads | Blog | Twitter -- source link
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