Terry Pratchett
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So sad, and we knew it was coming too soon as well. 
Neil Gaiman, on his friend, written last year - http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry...
Neil Gaiman, on his friend, written last year - http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry...
Silver Smudger said:
So sad, and we knew it was coming too soon as well.
Neil Gaiman, on his friend, written last year - http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry...
I like that. Rob read it out at the Con last year. Neil Gaiman, on his friend, written last year - http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry...
I only started reading Terry a couple of weeks back - finished the Colour of Magic the day before the bad thing happened, but looking forward to ploughing through the rest now.
Without wanting any spoilers, does The Light Fantastic have a section in the middle where it appears to jump forward in time? So the main characters in a different place with different people that haven't been introduced, and that presumably will be explained and unraveled at some point? Or has something very odd happened to the version on my Kindle...?
Without wanting any spoilers, does The Light Fantastic have a section in the middle where it appears to jump forward in time? So the main characters in a different place with different people that haven't been introduced, and that presumably will be explained and unraveled at some point? Or has something very odd happened to the version on my Kindle...?
SWAT78 said:
I only started reading Terry a couple of weeks back - finished the Colour of Magic the day before the bad thing happened, but looking forward to ploughing through the rest now.
Without wanting any spoilers, does The Light Fantastic have a section in the middle where it appears to jump forward in time? So the main characters in a different place with different people that haven't been introduced, and that presumably will be explained and unraveled at some point? Or has something very odd happened to the version on my Kindle...?
Answering my own question, it would appear that there is just a chunk of the book missing from my e-book version. I had no introduction to Bethan and Cohen, and I think completely skipped over another couple of parts.Without wanting any spoilers, does The Light Fantastic have a section in the middle where it appears to jump forward in time? So the main characters in a different place with different people that haven't been introduced, and that presumably will be explained and unraveled at some point? Or has something very odd happened to the version on my Kindle...?
Very odd. Didn't really impact the story too much, just missed a chunk of Terry-isms. Which is kind of the point of his books...
Oh well - only another 38ish to go!
Not really fitting the "Books and Literature" forum, but recommending you try to catch the 'Facing Extinction' documentary Terry shot for the BBC about 3 years ago.
It's about his love for orang utans, but is quite a touching insight into his acceptance of some of his own limitations due to the Alzheimer's. A lot of his humour still comes through.
Available on iPlayer for a bit.
It's about his love for orang utans, but is quite a touching insight into his acceptance of some of his own limitations due to the Alzheimer's. A lot of his humour still comes through.
Available on iPlayer for a bit.
An article to read if one has read The Shepherd's Crown
Finally done it...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/terry-pra...
Finally done it...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/terry-pra...
I have a Facebook page which I'm uploading scanned covers of all the SF & Fantasy books I own - co-incidentally I'm about to start on Sir Terry - it may take a while as I only upload four or five books a day.......
https://www.facebook.com/SFCovers/
https://www.facebook.com/SFCovers/
Just stumbled on this thread. OP - A205GTI - how are you getting on with the series?
No idea how it happened, but I'd dismissed Discworld as kids stuff in the past, but my godson (now 17) has been on at me for years to give them a go. Reluctantly caved in after seeing so much positive comment when he died, so I've been borrowing them from him & now up to "Going Postal". Now embarrassed that I'd been so dismissive in the past - he's a much better writer than Rowling (ok, IMO, but who I abandoned after number three through sheer boredom - I thought I'd fallen into a parallel universe where Jeffrey Archer had written Lord of the Rings) & I think as good as Pullman (The Dark Materials chap), but much funnier, more satirical. If it helps navigate the series, I just went by the list inside the fly cover of each book & missed out the Illustrated & "for younger readers". Genuinely interested to hear what you thought so far.
No idea how it happened, but I'd dismissed Discworld as kids stuff in the past, but my godson (now 17) has been on at me for years to give them a go. Reluctantly caved in after seeing so much positive comment when he died, so I've been borrowing them from him & now up to "Going Postal". Now embarrassed that I'd been so dismissive in the past - he's a much better writer than Rowling (ok, IMO, but who I abandoned after number three through sheer boredom - I thought I'd fallen into a parallel universe where Jeffrey Archer had written Lord of the Rings) & I think as good as Pullman (The Dark Materials chap), but much funnier, more satirical. If it helps navigate the series, I just went by the list inside the fly cover of each book & missed out the Illustrated & "for younger readers". Genuinely interested to hear what you thought so far.
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