RIP Terry Pratchett

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.

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.

“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

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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.

To anyone wishing for a bit of Nostalgic gaming, you can download the original CD versions(with working voices and not subtitles) of Discworld games from here:

You need to use DOSBOX for it to run which can be downloaded here:
DOS Box Windows Version

Discworld 1 Download

Discworld 2 Download

I’ve run through them all and seem safe to me so fill yer boots!