Terry Pratchett has died

[MrsPurchase]

I'm gutted.

I don't have any lilac, but have changed my FB pic to some lilac flowers. A silly gesture, maybe, but it's there.

How do they rise up, Rise up, rise up? How do they rise up, Rise up high?

Damn this confounded cold :(

I do hope Death treated him well.

My favorite footnote:

Wizard, from the olde english meaning Wise Arse...

Always makes me laugh, i forget what book it's from.

Nothing original to add - just another long-term Discworld reader who has gained so much enjoyment from Terry's work and wants to express their sadness at his passing.

RIP Terry

Beyond sad.

Sir Terry's books have given me so much joy, recently I have been sharing them with my DCs. At least the books will always be there, but today is a day for tears.

I can't stop crying, I feel such a numpty.
His writing had got me through all the hard things in my life, he's my comfort read.

No more Sam or Tiffany, I am so sad.

And now the tweets!
Oh I am in bits, I am going to have to reread!

How do other people reread?
In groups, the Witches, the Watch, or chronologically?

DD said"why are you crying? You didn't even know him." How to explain? Feel so very emotional.

Had just started re-reading some of my favorite Pratchett books this week. So sad, but grateful for all the pleasure and hysterical laughter he has brought to our lives over the years.
RIP

So sorry to hear this, even though in some ways better than the alternative.

I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and he was a genuinely lovely man, of whom our species can be proud.

Gutted to hear this.

Thank you Terry for the hours you gave me, lost in your Discworld, I loved every minute of it.
You made reading a joy time after time and I hope you rest splendidly in the crazy, beautiful world you created.

We'll be on Where's My Cow? tonight too in our house. RIP Terry.

I was okay untill i read his last tweets...

His books got me through so much. When my heart was breaking, when it finally broke, when I didn't want to try anymore, when I didn't want to feel anymore, I would read about Vimes and Granny and Nanny.
And I would laugh.
He didn't heal me, but he bloody helped.
Sweet dreams Sir Terry.

Crying now.

Buggeritmilleniumhandandshrimp.

He got my mother through her chemotherapy and her final illness.
Feel winded by this.

Me too Jason Dh will be devastated. So many of our friends are big fans too.

Rip wonderful man

We need a lilac emoticon.

I remember buying The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic from WH Smiths in 1988. The Discworld has been a part of my life ever since. I hope he managed to have the dignified and peaceful end that he wanted and deserved.

A genius and giant of a man. I wonder what the empirical measure of pleasure given to quantities of people would be classed as? He must have one of the biggest ever recorded whatever it is.

The last couple of books of his I've read (The Last Hero and Raising Steam) seemed to bring back a lot of the characters from the past, which was good. (If there is another finished but unpublished I hope it has the witches). I've still got Mrs Bradshaw unread, and The Long Mars which isn't the same but something to look forward to.

His last tweets. Oh my.
He was an inspiration. RIP Terry.
Time to haul out my "Dark in here. Isn't it" Death tshirt

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…”

(Reaper Man)

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2329793-Terry-Pratchett-has-died I've asked MNHQ. Good idea Baroness.