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[i]Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.[/i]
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I'm genuinely saddened - I love his books.
will be missed
[s]You sure? As in are you sure he's fallen off the turtle.[/s]
RIP.
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[i]You sure? [/i]
what, that he'll be missed?
Really, really saddened by this news.
A great shame - many happy memories of reading his books and the greatest admiration for the honesty with which he faced his illness.
Never read any of his books but blimey he could write proper complex prose.
Any language/literature "artist" will be greatly missed and Terry for sure is up there with the best of the classics.
oh god you're joking, but but but but Rincewind never graduated and Carrot never became king... and now never will. So sad.
Has anyone checked?
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I grew up on his books. I loved 'Death' in the Reaper Man.
That bloke had a 'knack.
****ing shit. RIP Sir.
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🙁
BUGGER!
I shall be raising a pint of scumble to you in "the Mended Drum".
.....OK maybe not a pint, I'm not sure I'd survive.
Oh no!!!!!
[Five exclamation marks]
Oh. Bugger.
Can just imagine Death creeping up on him & them having a straight down the line 'so, this is it...' kinda conversation.....
Gutted. Have read all of his books & enjoyed them all immensely. Since he announced his illness, they have tailed off a bit in terms of content; you could tell that the spark was going.
But.....but.....proper gutted.... 😥
No more Rincewind, no more Luggage, Nanny Ogg, CMOT Dibbler.......The Librarian.....OOK!!!
Goodbye to a genius and top bloke.
( and Blackboard Monitor )
Not unexpected, given his illness 🙁
RIP, will re-read Mort in his honour, it seems appropriate.
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Gutted i love his books i read the kids a chapter a night before bed they love the stories 🙁
RIP... Loved the books and just a really nice guy to boot, gutted 🙁 So many stories that I'd love to know how they end.
Just dawned on me, that's the 3 writers that most got me into reading, all passed away within a handful of years- Iain Banks, Terry Pratchett and Anne McCaffrey. Debts you can't repay, these. Now officially morose.
Just bought myself Death in the Kitchen Clarecraft figurine off eBay.
Always wanted it when I was younger (along with 'Death swinging his scythe') and never got round to buying it.
Seemed like the right thing to do now.....!
Life's so unfair. Terry Pratchett and Iain Banks gone, Dan Brown and Jeffrey Archer still with us 😥
What a shame. Genuine talent.
I was taken with his campaigning about Alzheimer's and assisted suicide. Had some really hard thought provoking views on it.
Some great quotes;
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. — from Moving Pictures
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. – from Hogfather
I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.
Terry Pratchett: 'Fantasy is uni-age'
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it. – from Monstrous Regiment
It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done. – from A Hat Full of Sky
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story. – from The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to. - from Snuff
I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.
So much universe, and so little time.
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I'm so upset. A great author and human being. RIP.
I love his books, the guy was a genius....very saddened by this news.
“YOU FEAR TO DIE?"
"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...”
sad, sad news ... 🙁
The world has lost a very funny author, very very sad. I loved his portrayal of the City Watch. I often see folk I can compare to Nobby Nobbs
From the BBC website
"The author died at home "with his cat sleeping on his bed, surrounded by his family,"
I think we can take some comfort from this comment.
RIP Sir Terry and thank you for all the books.
"I would like my pudding now nurse. And then I think I'd like to... write... something... I don't remember what."
Standing in the corner, he waits. The sand slowly flows, but it nears it's end. The old man still glows, as thousands of threads spread away from him.
SQUEAK.
I AGREE. IT IS A SHAME TO SEE HIM THIS WAY.
SQUEAK.
NO. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN.... BUT I CANNOT WAIT TO ASK HIM HOW IT ALL ENDS.
The old man looks up, through them at first... and then he sees them. For once, the smile on the hooded figure's skull is genuine.
"I... I remember you. The anth... ant..."
ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION.
"Yes, that. We knew each other?"
ONCE. AND WILL AGAIN, SIR.
He so rarely said it, and these feelings... remembering his young aprentice, and beloved daughter. The beautiful child they have.
"There... is a girl, yes?"
SHE IS SPEAKING TO THE AUDITORS, SIR. THEY ARE UNWILLING TO LISTEN.
"Well then. You know what they say, two things you cannot avoid. Taxes and..." He looks into the firey blue eyes, and becomes aware.
SQUEAK.
"Quite right. Is it time already? I have so much left to do."
YOU HAVE GIVEN ALL YOU CAN SIR.
"No, not cancer. Alzheimers."
I AM AWARE.
"So, where is the boy? I remember a boy."
CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.
"Ahh. Never much trusted cars. Or horses."
THEY GET YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.
"Must I?"
SOON. BUT WE MAY SIT HERE AWHILE.
SQUEAK
DO YOU HAVE ANY BISCUITS?
"No. Shame really."
YES.
"Is it truely turtles?"
ALL THE WAY DOWN. I HAVE SEEN THEM.
"Ahh. I would love to see it. Perhaps a small trip before?"
IT WOULD BE MY PLEASURE.
"The light is slower there... and there's a monkey...."
ORANGUTAN. SAME PRINCIPLE.
"Yes... will they remember me?"
SQUEAK.
"What was that? I could not hear you."
HE SAYS WE WILL, SIR.
"I never much liked the trouble people had with you. You seem like a nice fellow."
I HAVE MY DAYS.
"Don't we all?"
SOME LESS THAN OTHERS.
"Is it quick?"
YES. AND I BROUGHT THE SWORD. CEREMONY DICTATES IT.
"Ahh. How about a cup of tea?"
I WOULD ENJOY IT. DO YOU PLAY CHESS?
"No. how about checkers?"
And so they sat, two old friends regaling each other, though the old man could not remember all of the details, the cloaked man and his rat filled him in, when it was needed.
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Stolen from /tg/ on 4chan years back and came to me via FB.
Lost for words.
Met him once when I worked at Forbidden Planet in Dublin back in the late 90's. He was one of the nicest men I'd met, a huge idol of mine, I made him tea.
Really quite sad now.
I like to think of him as pausing in Death's mansion. To share one last fry-up with Albert.
Genuinely saddened by the news
I loved the discworld books and my son is just getting into the Carpet People.
His take on life was wonderful and he had a magnificent turn of phrase
He has provided me with so many smiles throughout the years!
I'm looking forward to experiencing them again with my son as he reads the books, although this time there will be tinge of sadness
Such sad news. RIP Sir Terry.
Very sad news, the man had a fantastic imagination and made me laugh a lot. RIP Terry Pratchett
I met him at s book signing in Colchester years ago at the release other fifth elephant... Really nice down to earth chap, spent ages talking to people and even let me try on his hat!!! Rip Mr Pratchett
It's bloody dust in here..
My dad introduced me to Discworld years ago, now, his collection of Terry Pratchet books sit unread at home with my mum, whilst my dad sits in a nursing home for those with Alzheimers.
I can't even tell him the news
I'm going to go get those bloody books though
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A sad day. Never met him, but the Discworld was practically a second home for much of my childhood. Got hooked on the Bromeliad trilogy in primary school, then Carpet People, the Johnny Maxwell trilogy and then Discworld.
Rest In Peace, Sir Terry. I hope Roundworld Death is as nice a chap as his Disc counterpart.
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Well... damn. His writing has been my go to source of entertainment for two decades now. I've never found anything comparable.
I'd love to see an annotated version of his novels. There are so many references and allusions to literature, mythology & current affairs within the books that I'm sure that I'm missing out on many of them
The thing between Death's triumphant digits was a fly from the dawn of time. It was the fly in the primordial soup. It had bred on mammoth turds. It wasn't a fly that bangs on window panes, it was a fly that drills through walls.
Thanks Terry. 'Mort' was my first, followed by many and I hope you finally got to meet that bright blue eyed bony fellow for real.
You satirised and celebrated the human condition in seemingly endless ways, with such style and wit it seemed a kindness. A true gift to our wretched, wonderful species. RIP
I keep going back and re-reading things, 20-odd years after I first started, and picking up on references that bypassed me as a child. The mark of a classic, I think.
Genuinely saddened by this. Spent a lot of years giggling like a kid at his books. Time to open them and read again them.
I keep going back and re-reading things, 20-odd years after I first started, and picking up on references that bypassed me as a child. The mark of a classic, I think.
I was trying to tot up the hours of entertainment he's given me earlier and I reckon I've read a few of the books ten times or more. Probably Soul Music or Guards Guards the most. Night Watch was the best of the lot though.
Genuine sadness over here. I'm not a massive book reader, but Discworld has drawn me year after year. RIP Terry!!!!!!
Bugger...
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Have all his books in my little library, sad that I won't have to expand the sections any more
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sad news.
afraid i have yet to read any of his books (i bought jingo though).
remember a text adventure game on the C64 (the colour of magic/price of magic?)that i believe he wrote the book (the game was based on).
have a lot of respect for the way he faced alzhimer's illness,and his views on ending life.
he came across as a very intelligent/decent man.
r.i.p terry pratchett 🙁
remember a text adventure game on the C64 (the colour of magic/price of magic?)that i believe he wrote the book (the game was based on).
Don't remember that but I had a hooky copy of this which I bloody loved.
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"Did you get the number of that donkey cart?"
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RIP a true literary genius.
Onewheelgood -
Thanks for posting that, its beautiful but its made me cry.
The literary elite may sneer, but Mr Pratchett touched more lives, inspired more people & made more happy than I can imagine.
I dont know if I can pick up his work tonight, its hard to read with tears in your eyes.
I am absolutely heartbroken to hear this, I've only just found out on the 6 o'clock news. I've met Sir Terry on a number of occasions at book-signings, on one occasion turning up with a rucksack full of books; his shoulders visibly slumped as I took out around a dozen books!
He was graciousness itself, though, a terrific writer and genuinely funny man, who's books have had me giggling quietly in bookshops on any number of occasions, and who genuinely enjoyed talking to the dozens of people who turned up to see him at signings.
He will be missed very much.
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Read the Colour of Magic in 1986 and everything he's written since.
One of very few writers who has caused me to burst in to laughter out loud in some very inappropriate places when reading his books.
Another reat thinker gone.
It wasn't his books, per se, that inspired and affected and changed me. It was his response to the world, all the quotes we will be reading over the next few days show to me that the way I perceive the world is absolutely fine.
I reel this out whenever the opportunity arises, particularly with disbelieving children:
"It's still magic, even when you know how it's done".
He will be a very sorely missed presence in my life.
The ride home hasn't cleared my head much, still pretty down about the news. Halfway through pyramids at the moment, one of the few DW books I've not read numerous times TBH its pretty rare that I'm not halfway through one of them. Really really good author who entertained so many people and will be sadly missed. Think I might be reading where's my cow to the kids at bedtime.
Its hard to believe that I won't read any more about Esme, Sam, Sweeper and all the others.
Devastated
Ive asked a friend if she can get a cheeky reference/tribute to TP in this weekends paper as a tribute 😀
Some really nice comments on this thread. Especially like the Death stuff.
A sad day but some great memories to be going on with which, without doubt, affect the way I think and deal with folk...
You know, for the large part of my life I'd always assumed I'd come across Rincewind, Ridcully, Vimes, Vetinari and all the rest again in the next book. The thought that they've all just come to a halt is a very sad one indeed.
Muddydwarf - I don't know who originally wrote it, but it seemed to me to be the perfect epitaph. Made me cry too but then I am a soppy git.
Like others I have read the books for years and introduced others to them including my kids and my dad. Like others I am sad that I won't meet Vimes or Vetinari anew but hugely grateful for all the fun I have had from meeting them in the first place.
RIP in the words of Foul Ol' Ron
"Buggrit, millenium hand an' shrimp".
I use a whole lot his quotes in my signatures on a random rotation. The death ones will be oh so apt.
Bad Omens made me snort with laughter when I first read it.
rogerthecat - Member
Read the Colour of Magic in 1986 and everything he's written since.
Same here, I'll miss a new book from his pen every Christmas.
In a way one of the things he taught me was there are no such things as gods, and such a nice man dying at 66 is no age, especially after I lost my Mum to Alzheimer's as well.
Just shows he' was right and there's no such thing as gods when the nice people are taken and they leave the $hits
I don't know why, I felt I had to, rewatched the dimbleby lecture in full just now.
Left alone in the house, for once I can't wait for the missus to get in.
Rubbished.
I tend to alternate books - one Terry Pratchett, one other. Not deliberately, it just seems to work out that way - I'm rereading Good Omens again at the moment. I'll really miss him.
When time comes to buy the last book it will be the end of an era. I sincerely hope that my kids will come, in time, to his books and enjoy them as much as I have done.
Raising a glass to his memory.
I am not often given to sentiment or mawkishness but the hours I've spent reading his books have been some of the best I've had. I'm genuinely and surprisingly sad about this.
The last time I cried over the death of a man I'd never met was when I heard of the death of John Lennon. I think it must be the thought of the stories I love, not continuing.
gutted, what a genius
may flights of world sized turtles carry him to his rest
Sad news, I will miss his writing hugely. As he's one of the few authors I always bought, grown up(?) enjoying his work hugely. Condolences to his family
He was a genius alright.
I'd have probably got a lot more from English lessons if we'd have read his books instead of Shakespeare.
He's always been one of my favourite author's ever since I picked up a copy of Guards Guards well over 20 years ago. Really sad news.
Shithouse news to wake up to on friday the 13th.
On a personal level, I've lost a link to my late mother. We always had a million books in the house, but I introduced her to Pratchett's novels.
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I've run through them all and seem safe to me so fill yer boots!