![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Cut-Me-Own-Throat’ Dibbler, the Ankh-Morpork salesman famed for his questionable snacks and ability to appear absolutely anywhere that a crowd has gathered, makes his name in this story as a Holy Wood film producer. ![]() ‘ Moving Pictures’ is only the second standalone tale so far, but it also contains several characters who make what is by far their largest appearances, and several more who are by now regular guest stars. It is relatable, far more than any other fantasy novels I have ever read. Everyone knew a gangly, clumsy kid like Mort at school. Everyone knows someone who has a grandmother like Nanny Ogg. We know these people, or at least we know people like these people. I think that for me personally, at this checkpoint in the series (number ten) this is the very reason that I love Discworld as much as I do. Discworld is over the top, silly, fantastical fun but, for all of that, it really does feel real. This quote comes at the very beginning of ‘ Moving Pictures’, the tenth novel in the series, and I pick it out because whilst it sums up the plot of this book well enough, it also essentially sums up the whole of Discworld. “The Discworld is as unreal as it is possible to be while still being just real enough to exist.” ![]()
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