Terry Pratchett R.I.P.
Discussion
"The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks."
My second favourite author after Douglas Adams. I'm gutted that there'll be no more Discworld novels to enjoy. I'm going to have to stock up on dried frog pills to get through this. I hope Nanny Ogg has plenty for sale.
"Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful."
"SOD YOU, THEN, Death said."
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
"The street was full of animals, milling around uncertainly. When animals are in a state of uncertainty they get nervous, and the street was already, as it were, paved with anxiety."
My second favourite author after Douglas Adams. I'm gutted that there'll be no more Discworld novels to enjoy. I'm going to have to stock up on dried frog pills to get through this. I hope Nanny Ogg has plenty for sale.
"Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful."
"SOD YOU, THEN, Death said."
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
"The street was full of animals, milling around uncertainly. When animals are in a state of uncertainty they get nervous, and the street was already, as it were, paved with anxiety."
SGirl said:
Evangelion said:
Possibly not so. I read somewhere that his daughter is to continue writing the series.
I read that too. I hope she doesn't, though. It wouldn't be the same.His last Discworld novel has apparently been given a release date of 10th September, and is now available for pre-order from Amazon.
Haven't got any of his books in anything other than Kindle format, but for reasons I can't explain would like a hardback copy of his last one. Even though I have another 35ish of his earlier ones still to go before reading it...
Haven't got any of his books in anything other than Kindle format, but for reasons I can't explain would like a hardback copy of his last one. Even though I have another 35ish of his earlier ones still to go before reading it...
SGirl said:
Evangelion said:
Possibly not so. I read somewhere that his daughter is to continue writing the series.
I read that too. I hope she doesn't, though. It wouldn't be the same.So I suppose it depends how close she can follow the style, though I would still give a new book a punt to see what it is like, never know and would not want to write it off before it is off the ground.
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