279 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 1990 by V. Gollancz.
Discworld's pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they've discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can't sing, he can't dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingenue from a little town (where else?) you've probably never heard of.But the click click of moving pictures isn't just stirring up dreams inside Discworld. Holy Wood's magic is drifting out into the boundaries of the universes, where raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas are beginning to ferment into a really stinky brew. It's up to Victor and Gaspode the Wonder Dog (a star if ever one was born!) to rein in the chaos and …
Discworld's pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they've discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can't sing, he can't dance, but he can handle a sword (sort of), and now he wants to be a star. So does Theda Withel, an ambitious ingenue from a little town (where else?) you've probably never heard of.But the click click of moving pictures isn't just stirring up dreams inside Discworld. Holy Wood's magic is drifting out into the boundaries of the universes, where raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas are beginning to ferment into a really stinky brew. It's up to Victor and Gaspode the Wonder Dog (a star if ever one was born!) to rein in the chaos and bring order back to a starstruck Discworld. And they're definitely not ready for their close-up!
Finas ironías y chistes al más puro estilo Pratchett, esta vez con el mundo del espectáculo y la fama como diana. Quizá echo en falta más profundidad de los personajes al ser una historia ajena a las cuatro grandes líneas argumentales.
Al final le falta algo.
Alchemists are responsible for a lot of explosions in Ankh-Morpork, but a lack of explosion marks the beginning of the moving pictures era. However, it may just be that founding Holy Wood is not a new and original idea, but an idea that some thing or things want to ressuscitate.
Even though this was possibly the first Discworld book that I was able to keep track of everything that happened, it did not feel as good as some of the previous ones. As always, there is magic in the way Pratchett chooses themes and the way we learn important life lessons without even realising it. I never enjoyed wizards as much as I did in this book and Victor was a great main character. What a wonderful world.
