Kevin's Watch

Not unexpected, but still very sad news.

Favorite quotes? Favorite Discworld novel?

A sad day. May he rest in peace.

Godspeed, Mr. Pratchett.

Small Gods. Also love the witches and the wizards at UU. Ooook.

"The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All"

"Dark in here, isn't it"

Well, that's devastating.

I was saying just the other day that there's a Discworld quote to fit any situation.

I stand by that, yet I can't think of a good one right now.

Sorus wrote:I stand by that, yet I can't think of a good one right now.

"There's no justice. There's just us."

Sad news indeed, although allegedly Disc World will live on, it will never be quite the same.

--A

I'm absolutely gutted. The man had that rarest of combinations, a razor-keen intelligence melded with a creativity that sparked more brightly than an arc-welder, all tempered by a gloriously funny sardonic self-deprecation.

No other prose has ever made me properly belly-laugh out loud so frequently. No other novels have entranced and held me captive so deeply. And no other author has ever just forced me to think so furiously and profoundly about the core issues of human existence - whether truth, crime, war, death, religion or whatever - wry examinations of which actually underlie all of Sir Terry's books.

Favourite books? Almost impossible to choose from such an embarrassment of riches, but Reaper Man,The Fifth Elephant, The Thief Of Time and Thud are all sheer masterpieces.

Favourite characters? Oh so many... Sam Vines, Lord Vetinari the Patrician, Granny Weatherwax, Arch-Chancellor Mustrum Ridcully, the Librarian and of course, DEATH Himself. Utterly brilliant creations.

I honestly believe that no other author has given us a more cogent, perceptive and simultaneously bitingly acerbic yet genuinely funny insights into the human condition. I will miss Sir Terry and his exquisite ironic imaginings dreadfully.

He is single-handedly resposible for getting at least two generations of children interested in reading and literature, a fact that numerous teachers and educational professionals have attested to. That's a legacy to be truly proud of

Today, the world is indeed a poorer place. Rest in peace, Sir Terry Pratchett.

+JMJ+

Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei.

Vraith wrote:Sad.

I bet Death came in person to see him off...or at least sent Mouse-Death to represent.

From his official Twitter account:

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.

The End.

Yeah, I loved those last tweets.

xkcd's Terry Pratchett offering.

Apparently Death is being petitioned to bring Sir Terry back.

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, TERRY said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

Never read any of this stuff. Perhaps some day.

Still, RIP.

Fist and Faith wrote:Never read any of this stuff. Perhaps some day.

I envy that, a little. I'd like to have it all to read again for the first time.

You have exclaimed “Pull the other one then!” or “With bells on!”

I hadn't even remembered that was where that came from.

Fist and Faith wrote:Never read any of this stuff. Perhaps some day.

Still, RIP.

Seriously????@@@@!!!!!!????
Isn't it you that has read, for SOME damn reason, Warhammer books???
But NOT Pratchett?
F&F will now forever be, to me Flubber and Forlorn.

Read them Fist.

--A

Vraith wrote:

Fist and Faith wrote:Never read any of this stuff. Perhaps some day.

Still, RIP.

Seriously????@@@@!!!!!!????
Isn't it you that has read, for SOME damn reason, Warhammer books???
But NOT Pratchett?
F&F will now forever be, to me Flubber and Forlorn.

Heh. The reason is psionics. Of course, like all areas of human creativity, there's some terrible stuff, and a whole bunch of mediocre stuff. But there's also some greatness. A couple of them rank among my favorite books ever, and a couple others aren't far behind.