Moving Pictures

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    A. S. Bryant
    “Offers more entertainment per page than anything this side of Wodehouse.”
    Washington Post Book World
    “Simply the best humorous writer of the twentieth century.”
    Oxford Times
    “A brilliant storyteller with a sense of humor…. The Dickens of the twentieth century.”
    Mail on Sunday (London)
    “As always he is head and shoulders above the best of the rest. He is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style.”
    Daily Telegraph (London)
    “Pratchett is a comic genius.”
    Express (London)
    “Terry Pratchett does for fantasy what Douglas Adams did for science fiction.”
    Today (Great Britain)
    “What makes Terry Pratchett’s fantasies so entertaining is that their humor depends on the characters first, on the plot second, rather than the other way around. The story isn’t there simply to lead from one slapstick pratfall to another pun. Its humor is genuine and unforced.”
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B OOKS BY T ERRY P RATCHETT
    The Carpet People
    The Dark Side of the Sun
    Strata
    Truckers
    Diggers
    Wings
    Only You Can Save Mankind
    Johnny and the Dead
    Johnny and the Bomb
    The Unadulterated Cat
(with Gray Jollife)
    Good Omens
(with Neil Gaiman)
    T HE D ISCWORLD S ERIES
    The Color of Magic*
    The Light Fantastic*
    Equal Rites*
    Mort*
    Sourcery*
    Wyrd Sisters*
    Pyramids*
    Guards! Guards!*
    Eric* (with Josh Kirby)
    Moving Pictures*
    Reaper Man
    Witches Abroad
    Small Gods*
    Lords and Ladies*
    Men at Arms*
    Soul Music*
    Interesting Times*
    Maskerade*
    Feet of Clay*
    Hogfather*
    Jingo*
    The Last Continent*
    Carpe Jugulum*
    The Fifth Elephant*
    The Truth*
    Thief of Time*
    Mort: A Discworld Big Comic
(with Graham Higgins)
    The Streets of Ankh-Morpork
(with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Companion
(with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Mapp
    A ND IN H ARDCOVER
    The Last Hero*

    *Published by HarperCollins

Copyright
    This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author?s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    MOVING PICTURES . Copyright © 1990 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    Mobipocket Reader April 2007 ISBN 978-0-06-144061-8
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1 This is the one that grows only in certain parts of heathen Howondaland. It’s twenty feet long, covered in spikes the color of ear wax, and smells like an anteater that’s eaten a very bad ant.

2 In fact the Guild of Merchants’ famous publication Wellcome to Ankh-Morporke, Citie of One Thousand Surprises now has an entire section entitled “Soe you’re a Barbaeriean Invader?” which has notes on night life, folklorique bargains in the bazaar and, under the heading “Steppe-ing Out,” a list of restaurants that do a dependable mares’ milk and yak pudding. And many a pointed-helmeted vandal has trotted back to his freezing yurt wondering why he seems to be a great deal poorer and the apparent owner of a badly-woven rug, a liter of undrinkable wine and a stuffed purple donkey in a straw hat.

3 The alternative was choosing of his own free will to be thrown into the scorpion pit.

4 She was right about that, but only by coincidence.

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