GNU Terry Pratchett

[WitchDancer]

5 years since Terry Pratchett died.

The ripples still carry on so he's not forgotten yet. Today I shall wear lilac.

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How is it 5 years already?
I am re-reading all the books from the first one. Just started on Carpe Jugulum, which I just love.
First one I read was Maskerade. I had seen the Phantom of the Opera and liked the idea of a funny rewrite. I am so glad I spend two days worth of food budget (i was a poor student) as it got me into reading all his books. I can't imagine them not being in my life.

I read Hogfather every December too. I spend all of November in delicious anticipation! Hogfather was the first one I read, so it adds a wonderful extra layer of nostalgia.

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I can't believe it's 5 years! I love Terry Pratchett. The first one I read was Mort where Death takes an apprentice. How can you not love a 7 foot skeleton, who rides a horse called Binky, talks in capital letters and says 'I don't know about you, but I could murder a curry'. I was hooked from that point.

I'm reading the Watch series at the moment - just fabulous.

And I love the Librarian as well. And Horace The Cheese - 'he doesn't sing but he hums a bit'!!!

I miss his books now more than ever

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I also started with Mort, followed by Interesting Times and then Soul Music. I was 15 and stuck at home for a month with pneumonia. Still vividly remember reading through fever haze and laughing.

My all time favourite is The Fifth Elephant.

I still haven’t read (and possibly never will) the last witches books. I can’t bear to lose Granny Weatherwax too.

It's by my bed. So that there is always another book 'coming soon'. DH says it's there for when I really need it. I don't think I'm going to read it now.

Five years
See how the little angels rise up.
I’m wearing the lilac today.

I watched the recent bbc series Good Omens.
I have never read any Terry Pratchett but I enjoyed this.
I wondered if any fans have seen it, and if you all rate it, I might start on the books.

I really liked Good Omens. I can more or less separate the Neil Gaiman bits and the Sir Terry bits, I think...

Definitely give Discworld a go. Start with witches, or guards. Or both at once

And don't forget the Bromeliad Trilogy to start your kids off with.

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I watched the recent bbc series Good Omens.
I have never read any Terry Pratchett but I enjoyed this.
I wondered if any fans have seen it, and if you all rate it, I might start on the books.

I was very wary about it (didn't want it spoiled) but really enjoyed it. I should have had more faith in Neil Gaiman.
There are some bits missed out that were in the book, so it's well worth reading that too.

As I've said before, as much as I read and re-read TP, I so often come across something I haven't spotted/understood/just plain "got" before.

It was the television adaptation of GO that made me see the fact that Crowley and Aziraphael (sp? ) were "dining at the Ritz" and, hence, a "nightingale sang in Berkley Square".

My life would have been very different if I hadn't read any Pratchett books, I can't believe it's been 5 years already.

I was in 6th form when a friend lent me Colour Of Magic. I wasn’t that impressed, so he lent me Mort. Wow.
Then at Uni I met DH who had the full set up to then and every Christmas I would buy him the latest one. We stopped doing that for the very last ones as they weren’t the same and we didn’t want them sat on the bookshelves reminding us what that cruel disease had done to one of the greatest writers ever.

I’ve just opened my copy of Wyrd Sisters to look at the signature and Death’s sycthe he drew when DH met him.

Name changed for the occasion.

Don't read The Colour of Magic first, its a bit weak and far from his best.

Just wanted to re-emphasize this.

I was introduced to them to at school but I do remember the covers were truly dreadful.

I read one the DH at Uni when he was really sick (10 years before he was my DH).
I don't have a complete collection but dc are almost old enough for him, maybe I should get collecting?
He is an author who seems to get more relevant not less as time goes by.

FFs, I read one to DH.

Met him once at a book signing, it remains one of my most treasured memories.

I've read (and own) all of his books and reread them constantly, always noticing new things. A brilliant man, taken far too soon.

How do they rise up...

A few weeks ago DS2 (aged 9) came home from school with A Hat full of Sky. He loved it. I was so happy! Been trying to get both boys into Terry Pratchett and it looks like I've got one hooked at last!

I wish I had met him. A few of my Discworld books are old copies I've picked up second hand, at the back they advertise 'conventions' held in the upstairs room of a pub in Romford or similar. Makes me ache for time travel!

I met Terry Pratchett back when Mort was being released.
He was as funny & charming chatting away in my little local library to an audience of a couple of dozen people as any of his books.

There is nobody quite like him writing today & I think he will be missed for a long time.

I used to buy the latest hardback for DB2, DH and, after DH's death, for DS1 every Christmas. Every year I feel a pang knowing there's no more to come. It's like a vacancy. The thought that dementia took one of the finest imaginations the world has ever seen still harrows me.