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[READ: September 2021] Moving Pictures
For his tenth Discworld novel, Terry Pratchett decided to have fun with Hollywood. Indeed, it is set on a hill called Holy Wood–an abandoned location that seems to suddenly have a magnetic attraction for Disc inhabitants.
This book also introduces Mustrum Ridcully as the new Archchancellor of Unseen University. Ridcully will remain Archchancellor for the rest of the novels. He proves to be unkillable (at least in practice) because he is unlike any Wizard around. He had left the University nearly four decades earlier having become a Seventh Level Wizard at the young age of twenty-seven. He left to look after his family’s land. Over the last forty years he has become quite a fan of the outdoors, of exercise, of rising early and basically everything else that Wizards find revolting. He loves hunting, owns several crossbows and is very hard to surprise–hence, no one has been able to usurp him as Archchancellor. (more…)
