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Nanny0gg · 26/05/2022 00:04

JustAnotherPoster00 · 25/05/2022 16:45

I just want to thank you for posting this thread OP, I'll admit to having a bit of a cry earlier at all the sentiments of love towards Sir Pterry and loss others had felt and to the sense of loss that we won't get to inhabit any new areas of the discworld and I hope one day someone else, like Neil Gaimen perhaps, picks up the mantle I think he would be more than able, didn't realise today was that day though but I'm unlikely to forget again but I will wear the lilac next year

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I really really hope that doesn't happen. And I don't think his family would want/allow it

There's enough fighting over every attempted TV adaptation (justifiably)

Although I'm looking forward to the Amazing Maurice

Nanny0gg · 26/05/2022 00:07

PonyPatter44 · 25/05/2022 22:42

How many of us have got an unopened copy of The Shepherd's Crown on our bookshelves? I can't bear to read it, because then that really is the end.

Lots.

My daughter bought it for me and keeps asking if I've read it.

I'm running out of excuses...

ErrolTheDragon · 26/05/2022 00:24

There's enough fighting over every attempted TV adaptation (justifiably)

I've never watched any, on the assumption they'd be disappointing. Are any of them actually good?

I have read The Shepherd's Crown, after having it for a while. It would be a shame not to at some point, wouldn't it?

There is also the Long Earth series if you've not already read them. It's not Discworld but it's good.

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/05/2022 00:24

@Nanny0gg DH bought me my copy. I've told him I can't face it. He said, "you'll need it sometime and it'll be there".

You're not not reading it. You're saving it until you need to crack open a fresh piece of the Discworld. You'll know when.

LaMarschallin · 26/05/2022 06:04

MrsTerryPratchett

I'm another with an unread copy, also bought by my DH.
I like the idea that I'm not not reading it, but saving it

BenCoopersSupportWren · 26/05/2022 06:55

I've never watched any, on the assumption they'd be disappointing. Are any of them actually good?

Hogfather is okay - you can see a young Michelle Dockery cutting her Lady Mary, ahem, teeth, as Susan - but that’s the only one I have time for of the ones I’ve seen. I did once see quite a decent stage adaptation of Guards! Guards! but that was several years ago.

MistyGreenAndBlue · 26/05/2022 10:22

JustAnotherPoster00 · 25/05/2022 16:45

I just want to thank you for posting this thread OP, I'll admit to having a bit of a cry earlier at all the sentiments of love towards Sir Pterry and loss others had felt and to the sense of loss that we won't get to inhabit any new areas of the discworld and I hope one day someone else, like Neil Gaimen perhaps, picks up the mantle I think he would be more than able, didn't realise today was that day though but I'm unlikely to forget again but I will wear the lilac next year

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Ooooh no. Not Gaiman. I found myself growing out of his stuff some years ago. He can definitely be a bit juvenile.

He's a good writer but he's no TP.

Ormally · 26/05/2022 10:43

SoupDragon · 25/05/2022 08:05

At much a lower tech level, I do Geocaching and have a series of Discworld caches. I have included that on each page in white text that no one will see.

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I shall print it out with the Ankh Morpork Times' white ink, purchased to fill in the holes in the 'o's, and go hunting.

The truth shall make ye fret!

(I have an opportunity to put a GNU in a frame of code for something today. It is so tempting but I'm not familiar enough with how to fix it if I mess up the function of the frame so early in its launch!)

GenderCriticalTrumpets · 26/05/2022 11:40

YANBU. I have a sprig of lilac tattooed on my inner wrist in his honour. An an Errol on my arm.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 26/05/2022 12:02

I have a white Jellycat dragon called Errol.

MNettersForNoahAndFiona · 26/05/2022 16:50

YANBU.

My DC first got into STP via the joy of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.

Do you know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.
I also immediately thought of Noah Donohoe when I saw this thread. While Noah was still alive, his mummy told him that he would change the world. Sadly nobody expected or wanted it to be this way. We will keep saying, shouting and writing his name for as long as it takes.

Noah Donohoe 💙

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Nanny0gg · 26/05/2022 16:56

ErrolTheDragon · 26/05/2022 00:24

There's enough fighting over every attempted TV adaptation (justifiably)

I've never watched any, on the assumption they'd be disappointing. Are any of them actually good?

I have read The Shepherd's Crown, after having it for a while. It would be a shame not to at some point, wouldn't it?

There is also the Long Earth series if you've not already read them. It's not Discworld but it's good.

The Amazing Maurice looks promising.

Good Omens was excellent.

Actual Discworld - nope. David Jason isn't Rincewind. And I wasn't keen on the others

Nanny0gg · 26/05/2022 16:57

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/05/2022 00:24

@Nanny0gg DH bought me my copy. I've told him I can't face it. He said, "you'll need it sometime and it'll be there".

You're not not reading it. You're saving it until you need to crack open a fresh piece of the Discworld. You'll know when.

I like that

clareken260 · 26/05/2022 18:16

I wore the lilac, even though I wasn't there. GNU STP

MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig · 26/05/2022 18:44

Another one that still hasn’t read The Shepherd’s Crown. Perhaps I ought to start them all again.

GNU Sir Pterry.

Do you know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

discobear · 26/05/2022 19:24

This thread has made me happy and also a bit sad. I put off reading the shepherds crown for years to but finally succumbed. It’s a lovely book and rather poignant.

Off to reread the lot!

GNU

Fairislefandango · 26/05/2022 19:39

I haven't read The Shepherd's Crown yet either.
I loved the Good Omens series - absolutely brilliant, especially Michael Sheen. It would be amazing if they managed to do some Discworld films/series and do them really well, but I can't see it happening. A favourite pastime in this house is to debate about whom we'd cast as various Discworld characters.

masterblaster · 26/05/2022 20:13

Gilgamesh wins this.

JonSnowIsALoser · 26/05/2022 20:32

It's obvious if you've seen "Coco". You live as long as the memories of people who knew you in life are passed down the generations.

One of the best films ever.

FloraGreysteel · 26/05/2022 20:34

YABU.

RWeatherwax · 26/05/2022 20:49

This is the thread I’ve been waiting for. Granny Weatherwax and Sir Pterry are my talismans for dealing with life. The discworld is home

GNU Sir Pterry

RWeatherwax · 26/05/2022 20:58

Oh also,

Mind How You Go.

JennyJumpup · 26/05/2022 21:00

If you think human beings are just bodies, then yes, when your body dies you are dead and gone.

If you believe human beings have a physical level of being and also a self-transcendent one, then yes, they can live on after their physical bodies are dead. You could say Beethoven (for example) is alive when people listen to his music. Well, the important part of him—his talent and contribution to the world—is alive.

Whether anyone says their name or not has nothing to do with it.

I have always liked the "Do Not Stand At My Grave" poem.

OnceMoreWithoutFeeling · 26/05/2022 21:05

My (dead) mum loved Sir Terry. Such a wise and funny man. They rise arse up!

mbosnz · 26/05/2022 21:11

I sob every time I read The Shepherd's Crown. Every year, we argued over whose turn it was to buy, and whose turn it was to give, the Terry Pratchett at Christmas. (Them wot got given it, got to read it first). A light went out, Sir Terry, with you.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your world, with us. It made our world a richer, more thoughtful, and more understandable, place - for those of us that read it.