Terry Pratchett: A life With Footnotes

[WhereMyRosemaryGoes]

Anyone else read it?

They say never meet your heroes, and that's what I'm finding, reading this.

The Discworld series has been so important to me, over the years. I'm not hugely enjoying the biography, and so far TP is not very endearing. I'll push on. He lead an interesting life.

I got a bit bored of this, and sent it back to the library unfinished. I figure that I love Terry Pratchett's books; it doesn't mean that I need to know everything about him.

Quite while you're behind 😄.

^Quit

I'm afraid it doesn't get better. He comes across as quite a dislikable man.

Yes, quite dislikeable!

Oh dear, I have this in my kindle pile! I might put it to one side for a while and just re-read the Discworld books again 😁

How ever much I love the Discworld and all who live in it, Sir Pterry was quite rude to my teenage at the time brother at a book signing. We were very sad about it.

Am plodding on. Halfway through. It's not getting any better.

Oh no; it's now relegated to the back of beyond!

I suspect that anyone who is capable of writing the brilliant, complex books that make up the Discworld is not a straightforward character. He famously acknowledged himself that he was an angry man. Enjoy his work, and have the knowledge that people are flawed.

Sad to read he comes across as unlikeable. I saw him give a talk once, in the National Gallery, in front of his favourite painting. And he was exceptionally engaging.