To have cried whilst ordering the last Discworld novel

[ChiefClerkDrumknott]

Because it struck me; this is it, last one, no more, end of the line Ordered the hard cover one with the dust cover, gorgeous. How will I ever live without them?

No. It's Tiffany. She is the bravest of all.
No more Watch or witches.
Who is going to prove that bullies always get what coming to them?!
Those moments with Sam and Vetinari.
Can we have a mass read altogether when it's published? We all take the day off and read and laugh and cry.
Crivens.

No more CMOTD and his Klatchian and counterweight continent cousins.

I have a rule that I always wait for the paperback. Its an exercise in delayed gratification and anyway I'd have run out of shelves if I'd got hardback TP. But I've got Mrs Bradshaw by my bed - I was saving it for holiday reading but that's been cancelled so maybe I'll start dipping into that.

Possibly the most unanimous AIBU thread I've ever done, which made me
I think you've all nailed it - I'm grieving for the loss of not only Sir Terry, which is obviously the worst thing, but also all the wonderful characters he created and the world that floated seemingly endlessly on the back of The Great A'Tuin. I will miss them so much

ladymalfoy what a great idea, I'd be up for that

I cried, which I shouldn't have done, because it's a Tiffany Aching and not a City Watch one.

I need to know more about Sam Vimes.

How ridiculous is that?

Definitely not! I'm not a weeper at all but I cried so much over Terry Pratchett that the dogs got up and came to see what was wrong.

YANBU. I can't even bear to order it.

Oh Errol, I'm so glad that I'm not the only paperback fiend. I have hovered over the hardback pre order but I don't want a hardback.
I once had a serious meltdown at me ex when he bought me the Mort graphic novel. I made him take it back unread. I had the book. I didn't need pictures.

I'm sure Sam lives on being all wonderfully loyal and splendid and dies with his good boots on. Much mourned by the peaceful citizens. And even the villains will mourn the passing of Mister Vimes who was a decent watchman.

I believe you aren't properly dead until you're forgotten. Terry wrote such wonderful books, that say important things about what it means to be human, but with a smile and a joke. He will never be forgotten.

Oh, and YY to Iain M Banks. I shall get weepy watching Stonemouth, it wasn't one of his best but there won't be another :(

YANBU. I feel the same about Ruth Rendell. So sad when an author has meant so much to so many and relatively young in Sir Terry's case really.

OMG! You people, they haven't gone (the watch, witches etc) - this is how I like to think of it. The discworld is still carrying on as it ever did. It's a whole tiny universe just being carried along by a'tuin but someone has put a big glass cover over it (think cake shop glass dome). Before, Sir Terry, who was in a unique position, could peer in close and write down what he saw happening in there. Now, because Terry has gone, the cover has been replaced so we won't hear what is happening but of course it still goes on.

And so endeth the crazy sermon.

As you were.

Oh and no, I haven't ordered the last book either. Kind of hoping dh will give it to me for my birthday so I don't have to do it myself...

You are the definition of not unreasonable, I haven't done it yet, have looked at it twice and the brain keeps coming up with other things to do first, classic avoidance.

Does anyone view with horror the thought that someone else might start writing them like Eoin Colfer for Douglas Adams (never read the book, can't bring myself to, so it could be brilliant, it's just the idea that bothers me).

I read my first and only Discworld novel in 2012 -Thud. Although I finished it, it didn't do anything for me. That's aid, I read that you get more from the Discworld novels if you read them in sequence - the one I read wa from th middle of the series. So I plan to give them another go sometime!

Meant to sat THAT SAID *

Have been avoiding reading this AIBU. I made it to the second page before tearing up. If a thread on MN about the last book almost makes me cry then I'm not sure I'll even be able to read the bloody book itself.

I've ordered it. My plan is to read them all again, in sequence, then finish with that one.

Then sob. A lot.

GreenDoor. If you loved Sue Townsend you will love Pratchett. Beneath all the humour they both have the same fundamental sense of decency. Don't start with The Colour of Money though, it is far from his best. Start with the Witches.

I'm in a weird time zone so a mass-read, much as I would love it, is not practical for me.

I was horrified when it sounded like Rhianna Pratchett might carry the books on. The thought of her writing them not in HIS VOICE and me hating them and feeling like that was disloyal to SirTP. Urgh.

There are very few friends I've had from my teens until now and Terry is one of them.

RIP

No-one, NO-ONE must be allowed to carry on writing the books.

No-one.

^ What Nanny Ogg said.

I cried as it wasn't just him dying but sam vines, captain carrot, the unseen university, granny weatherwatch, nanny ogg etc, etc, etc.

This. So this.