SPOILER! The new (and last sob) Discworld book is here - SPOILER!

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OMG!
The last (posthumous) Discworld book arrived on my Kindle at Midnight, and I read the first three chapters and I cannot stop sobbing.
How COULD He?
I had to stop reading cos I couldn't see through my tears, and I have a feeling I will be up all night reading a bit more and sobbing a bit more, and I am totally heartbroken.
I know it's sad and pathetic and all that - MASSIVE spoiler alert but the bugger has killed off Granny Weatherwax! and it definitely seems that this time she is really, truly, actually, dead :( and I can't bear it.
I knew this last one would be tough, with it being the last one ever, and that I would feel the pangs over TP's death, but OMG - I am as sad as I was when my actual Nanna died over Granny :(
TP has such a way with words, and knowing that he knew he was dying when he wrote it, and it's just so damned poignant, I can't bear it.
Part of me is praying that it will turn out to be like all the other time everyone thought Granny was down and out, and "I Aten't Dead" proved true and she was fine, but I just don't think it's going to be the case this time...
Waily waily waily CRIVENS! sob

I feel your pain. I’ve loved all of his books and I’m going to miss him.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

The bugger indeed .

My copy hasn't reached me yet but I've been searching for spoilers anyway - quite angry and disappointed at what he did and I now don't actually want the book at all.

I suppose this is how people felt when, eg, Conan Doyle killed off Holmes.

I am half way through. One of the Saddest things I've ever read was THE LAST DISCWORLD NOVEL on the first page!

Bloody brilliant so far.

SPOILER ALERT - It makes sense that he took Granny with him when he went. I mean who else would you want with you 25 the end!

I'm both and all the way through so far!

At not 25

I had had a feeling from the last few books in which she featured that Pterry was preparing the ground for the death of Granny Weatherwax. It felt really appropriate to me, and the whole novel really had a feel of a finale. The last few pages had me fighting back tears just before I got to work this morning. I'm sad there will be no more, but just like Granny on the Disc there will be ripples of Terry permeating the world for a long time to come.

I've just finished it and I'm still in tears (this is not like me at all!). Part of me is "why did he kill Granny Weatherwax off" and the rest of me accepts that he loved and embraced change and leaving the Discworld with Tiffany seems right, but bloody hell, he knew he was dying and it's hard to read.

Sorry, waffling - DH has gone to bed and said he doesn't want to read it for a few months and I have no one to talk this through with!

I loved the way it came full circle, with Geoffrey, and the little mention of Eskarina, but it was definitely tough to read :(
I actually read Every Single Word of all the end papers too, the obit and the quotes and the publishing info and everything, just to put off the second when I'd officially "Finished It" and then I cried again just from knowing there would never ever be any more.

Me too - glad it wasn't just me. So many lovely minor touches throughout