Terry Pratchett has died

[MrsPurchase]

I'm gutted.

RIP Sir Terry, you were a genius.

I didn't learn to read until i was 9, The cover of Mort was the reason i learnt to read, the content is what kept me reading.

Name change in honour.

I've just bought "Where's My Cow?" For some reason it was missing from my collection but not any more.

I tend to re-read in chronological order if I'm going for the whole lot - but sometimes I'll pick out the groups, usually the Witches. Or the Watch, of course - but they are more intertwined with the others, I find.

Fmarf - you might not have known him but you can still feel the loss of someone who enriched your life - tell your DD that, if you haven't found other words yet.

There was another author who was reading Terry Pratchett when he died - Robert Asprin. He was only 61, died in bed of a heart attack and his reading glasses and a TP book were found next to him.

Oh I'm still weeping. :(

So sad

He was an unofficial parenting guru round here-I'm going to misquote:

Listening to the sound of children at play is a pleasure,unless of course,you are close enough to hear what they are saying.

Susan Stow Hewlett (I know I've got her name wrong) marching downstairs to rid children's room of the things which lurk in the dark. The things which lurk try desperately to hide and pretend they don't really exist as she nears

Nanny Ogg's photo system.
Grebo

Angura being captured by some thugs in a bar. It turns out very,very badly for the thugs.

So,so sad.

So sad. The world won't be the same without him.

A just giving page has been set up in his memory if anyone is interested

www.justgiving.com/Terry-Pratchett

Oh no. His poor family. Poor us too. The world is a slightly darker place now.

RIP Terry Pratchett.

Crying here too. I started reading his books when I was a teenager. Always loved his sense of humour and the brave way he faced his illness.

Oh, wow.

He held a special place in my heart. In so many hearts.

Rip, Sir Terry Pratchett.

What a wonderfully witty, clever man. I heard him speak years ago at the Edinburgh book festival and he was as funny in person as he is in his writing.
He's also done such a lot to publicise the need for more research into Alzheimers.
I think I'm going to donate something in his honour.
www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/

I'm absolutely gutted, his books were a major part of my childhood and a key aspect to my relationship with my father, who is also very saddened by the news.

RIP Terry Pratchett

Ilporcupino, best STP name yet

So sad to hear this news. He has been such a massive influence in my life. I even employ the Susan St Hellit school of child rearing, namely tell them the truth and always threaten the monsters with a poker. Seems to work ok so far!

RIP STP Thank you

Namechanged now.

Just wanted to add that, as well as everything else we've lost, the orangutans have lost one of their most famous advocates as well www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21940533

I am halfway through Man At Arms (again) and I'm sad thinking that the light that wrote it won't shine again

Already wrote this in Adult Fiction but it bears repeating
I don't get sad at celebrity deaths but Terry P wasn't just a celebrity. He was a key to my own imagination. I always loved books but from the first line of the very first Discworld book I read I felt rather than imagined the world and characters he created. There is humour, depth and a feeling of genuine caring about the people in those pages.
Hope he's drinking with Vimes and Nanny Ogg . Raise a glass Sir Terry and sing a verse of 'A Wizard's Staff' for me.
.

Fmarf

I explained to DD1, who asked why I was crying, that his books were so funny that they made me cry with laughter, real tears of laughter. Of course I will cry at his death.

Loved the Witches and Unseen university books best of all. A wonderful, funny man. RIP.

I am the least emotional person with things like this, the whole Princess Diana thing baffled me.

So why did I burst into tears when I saw the news? I feel like I have lost something and someone very personal, even though I never knew him.

Damn. RIP Sir Terrry. Met him once v briefly at the B5 wrap party, he was a coureous, lovely, kind man.

World was a better place for him. Damn. Damn.

A sad loss for all of us

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”
? Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

May his stories ripple on for ever..

I don't even know what to say. Like CastielsClevererBetterSister, I don't tend to cry at celebrity deaths but his books have so much meaning and so many memories for me. What a loss

RIP Terry.