ARCHIVE Terry Pratchett - Sad News

Sadly, Terry Pratchett has passed away.

He will be very much missed.

 

The worst thing about Altzheimers is in some ways it feels like we mourned the author before the man passed away. I know it sounds awful, but...look I can't say this right, OK?

Rest in Peace, Sir Pterry

 

I have no words.

Rest in Peace.

 

Ook.
Another great writer gone. Feels like my youth went with him.

RIP.

 

For once I find myself crying in front of my screen. I've never really been into his books, but his work for dementia sufferers gave hope to so many.

RIP. He will be missed.

 

This one still bites, even so many months later.

I still keep expecting a new book out once every so often on yet more of the foibles of humanity.

Ook.

 

I'll be honest the last few books aren't really Pratchett books. Sure they have the name on them, and you can see some of the intelligence, but they just don't feel like Pratchett books used to be.

Not sure what I would call the last proper Discworld novel he wrote, probably Going Postal.

But yeah, great writer, sadly missed and a mile better the J.K. Rowling any day of the week.

 

It's the worst thing about Altzheimer's. It lets you watch the pieces of the person you know and love fall away and leaves you to grieve what they were while they are still alive - and they know and grieve it too.

A friend of mine said it felt like losing the author while the man still lived. That is the best way I have seen it put.

 

I'm just hoping they leave Discworld alone and don't start looking at ways to package it for sale or try to get other writers in do spin offs.

 

Apparently Rihanna Pratchett has the rights. I'd like to see more, but only if it's done well. There are a few fan writers who are pretty good.

 

I dunno, once they start it with one of them, they'll start thinking they can make money off all of it.

Only one I would really like to see done is Guards, Guards and some others of the City Watch novels.

 

Done as what? A spin-off novel, TV show...?