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Happy Terry Pratchett Day

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MrsTerryPratchett · 28/04/2023 20:37

It's his birthday today and I was wondering how many MNers (especially those with associated names!) would show up and wish the great man best wishes.

Gone, but not forgotten.

GNU Terry Pratchett.

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TheOhGodOfHangovers · 28/04/2023 21:06

MrsTerryPratchett · 28/04/2023 21:03

There is still is a book coming. I haven't read the last one so there is always one I can look forward to.

DH says I will know when I really need it.

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IdaGoodnight · 28/04/2023 21:06

Blimey @CMOTDibbler - one of your own! You’re brave (or new to town) ;-)

OliveHenry · 28/04/2023 21:07

Adding my name to the list of people who have The Shepherd's Crown but haven't read it!

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 28/04/2023 21:08

Wotcha.

Hiddendoor · 28/04/2023 21:08

I'm reading DS the truckers trilogy at the moment, nearly finished Wings.

I.bought them when I was 10, I'm so pleased to be reading them for the first time to my boy.

CMOTDibbler · 28/04/2023 21:09

@IdaGoodnight built up resistance to it you see. Anyone for a soy rat onna stick? Banged grains?

TheInterceptor · 28/04/2023 21:09

I also have my hardback, boxed copy of The Shepherd's Crown on my bookshelf, untouched. I just can't bring myself to read it!

CorporaINobbyNobbs · 28/04/2023 21:12

No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away. ❤️❤️❤️

MichelleScarn · 28/04/2023 21:12

OliveHenry · 28/04/2023 21:07

Adding my name to the list of people who have The Shepherd's Crown but haven't read it!

And me :( 😞 I know not till next month, but see how they rise up...

LuckOfTheDrawer · 28/04/2023 21:12

Aw, you lot keeping his last book unread - there's something in my eye.

Mossstitch · 28/04/2023 21:13

Argh, my eldest's favourite author. The documentary about him having dementia was soooo sad, seems more cruel when someone with such an active/imaginative brain gets it! RIP💐

CMOTDibbler · 28/04/2023 21:17

I read The Shepherds Crown when it came out, and I sort of needed to. My mum first had signs of fronto temporal dementia when TP announced his diagnosis, and she went from being a 5 books on the go at once, addicted reader who was equally as desperate for the next TP to come out to being unable to read by his death (along with losing so much) so it was sort of ending that phase of my life in a way.

DangerFrog · 28/04/2023 21:18

OliveHenry · 28/04/2023 21:07

Adding my name to the list of people who have The Shepherd's Crown but haven't read it!

And me. Can't bring myself to read it.

My oldest is currently racing through all the Discworld books, suspect he'll read it before me.

nocoolnamesleft · 28/04/2023 21:20

I read all his books at the speed of light. Treacly.

MichelleScarn · 28/04/2023 21:22

Oh @CMOTDibbler that also makes me a bit teary re your mum.

pointythings · 28/04/2023 21:22

I have lilacs outside my front door.
And one of my cats absolutely channels Greebo.

MrsWidgerysLodger · 28/04/2023 21:26

GNU Sir Terry. My username is a somewhat obscure Pratchett reference!

FrosteeFlake · 28/04/2023 21:29

TheOhGodOfHangovers · 28/04/2023 21:06

Cross post!

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Add me to the list too. So lovely to see so many feel the same.

listsandbudgets · 28/04/2023 21:33

I've started collecting his books up again recently. I've not read them since I was at university and I'm now in my late 40s so I reckon it's time to read them again.

I met him once - he was lost at my university looking for the toilets so I showed him where they were. Lovely man

HermioneWeasley · 28/04/2023 21:36

No man is dead while his name is still spoken.

EarlGreyAndCucumber · 28/04/2023 21:37

GNU Sir Terry. I still have The Last Continent to read. I don’t want to have no Discworld to look forward to.

Thank you for this @MrsTerryPratchett

DoctorLawn · 28/04/2023 21:37

GNU, Sir Pterry.

I've read The Shepherd's Crown, and I'm sad I'll never have another first time read of a Pratchett. I could totally immerse myself in the Discworld. Those characters are forever frozen in time now.

Theunamedcat · 28/04/2023 21:40

Randomly picked up the death trilogy book I have im currently reading reaper man

I miss the disc world and I'm glad to be back in it

OttersMayHaveShiftedInTransit · 28/04/2023 21:48

listsandbudgets · 28/04/2023 21:33

I've started collecting his books up again recently. I've not read them since I was at university and I'm now in my late 40s so I reckon it's time to read them again.

I met him once - he was lost at my university looking for the toilets so I showed him where they were. Lovely man

I also had the pleasure of meeting him once - he devalued three of my books by signing them (his joke that he signed so many that unsigned copies were rarer and therefore more valuable). We'd seen him give talk about his inspirations for the disc - he hung around his local library so much as a teen that they ended up making him an unofficial member of staff and he thought it was work as it was so simple a monkey could do it and that was where the librarian came from.
The luggage was a combination of watching someone with a wheely suitcase and a trunk he devised in D&D to stop the kids he DM'd for from having all of the stuff (it moved and would go until told to stop and in the height of an ambush the kids would forget to tell it to stop so it would keep going and he could pop in a pit fall that would wipe out all the stuff the players had accumulated).
When a map of Anhk-Morpork was produced he had absolutely expected the UU tower of art to be at the centre and discovered that it was actually the opera House so he wrote Masquerade.
He was a absolute magpie who found inspiration anywhere and everywhere.
GNU Sir Terry.

SirSamVimesCityWatch · 28/04/2023 21:49

I pretty much always have a Discworld book on the go. I find I can just read and re-read them, they are so damn good. And I'm another one that won't read the final book.

Raising a glass of something to Sir Terry. It's made of apples. Well, mostly apples.