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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Rufus on March 12, 2015, 02:04:55 PM

Title: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Rufus on March 12, 2015, 02:04:55 PM: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31858156 :'(

Wasn't an assissted suicide apparently.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 12, 2015, 02:20:28 PM: One of the absolute best fantasy writers ever.

66 is just way too young to die from Alzheimer's, man. :tocry
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Steve Contra on March 12, 2015, 02:23:28 PM: Fuck man, what a shitty way for someone like him to go. :'(
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 12, 2015, 02:35:26 PM: Quote from: Esch on March 12, 2015, 02:08:10 PM
:'( :'( :'(

Alzheimer's yall. If i get that diagnosis I'm turning in my test without answering all the questions.

My grandma has it

But she still knows me :)

She is in her 80's

Horrible disease to witness first hand
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 12, 2015, 02:53:55 PM: what an embuggerance
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Kara on March 12, 2015, 02:54:14 PM: Sure am glad I only read people who are already dead (hokutonoken.jpg). :whew

Never having to say goodbye. :rejoice
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Rufus on March 12, 2015, 03:16:31 PM: Yeah, now I'm itching to read all of his books in chronological order.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Rufus on March 12, 2015, 03:38:24 PM: Quote from: Death Ghidorah on March 12, 2015, 03:19:15 PM
I don't think I'm familiar with his work. What's his best and where should I start?

R.I.P.
Oh man. All of Discworld basically. I haven't read the majority of them (41 books now) but I absolutely love Small Gods. It is more disconnected from the other storylines so easier to recommend.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 12, 2015, 03:40:05 PM: Quote from: Death Ghidorah on March 12, 2015, 03:19:15 PM
I don't think I'm familiar with his work. What's his best and where should I start?

R.I.P.

There are several different main storylines with overlapping characters within the Discworld series. The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic are a good place to start, after that a lot of people like Guards! Guards!
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Eric P on March 12, 2015, 03:40:27 PM: Quote from: Death Ghidorah on March 12, 2015, 03:19:15 PM
I don't think I'm familiar with his work. What's his best and where should I start?

R.I.P.

Small Gods, really. Then The Watch series in chronological order from Guards! Guards!

Small Gods will tell you if you want to read more, Guards Guards will lead you through the best "series" within Discworld
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 12, 2015, 03:40:44 PM: RIP, wow.
Quote from: Vularai on March 12, 2015, 02:54:14 PM
Sure am glad I only read people who are already dead (hokutonoken.jpg). :whew

Never having to say goodbye. :rejoice

You didn't read Bob Avarkian's latest classic, Away with All Gods!: Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World?
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: El Babua on March 12, 2015, 03:45:17 PM: RIP :(

Alzheimer fucking sucks.

True shit though, the moment I read this thread, it took me sec to differentiate him from Terry Goodkind.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 12, 2015, 04:09:15 PM: everything but: equal rites, pyramids!, sourcery, and (arguably) color of magic/the light fantastic. the first three are pretty sloppy and lazy; the latter two are his first discworld books where he was trying too hard to be "fantasy" douglas adams.

mort is a love it or hate it book; i hated it, but it was pretty polished and original for one of his early books.

given how prolific he was -- 70+ books in 66 years of life -- he has a remarkable lack of klunkers.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Eric P on March 12, 2015, 04:13:14 PM: Equal Rites is really bad but the rest of the Witch stuff is good to really good depending on how much you know or like of the following; Shakespeare / musicals / vampire lore. I could probably talk about Pratchett all day. I have read all of his books and many of them more than 5 times. One of my favorite things about visithing Hong Kong was happening on a tiny English language bookstore and finding Pratchett books in English which were not at that time available in the US.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Eric P on March 12, 2015, 04:19:19 PM: Quote from: Van Cruncheon on March 12, 2015, 04:09:15 PM
everything but: equal rites, pyramids!, sourcery, and (arguably) color of magic/the light fantastic. the first three are pretty sloppy and lazy; the latter two are his first discworld books where he was trying too hard to be "fantasy" douglas adams.

mort is a love it or hate it book; i hated it, but it was pretty polished and original for one of his early books.

given how prolific he was -- 70+ books in 66 years of life -- he has a remarkable lack of klunkers.

i loved the Rincewind books at first but upon a more recent rexamination, they're probably my least favorite, but i think that's because he has less to say with them that the read more like parodies (explicitly in Colour of Magic) or travelogues (The Last Continent).

I think my personal favorites are probably the Moist Von Lipwig books which are essentially Terry Pratchett playing Park and Rec by laying out good governance with a healthy dose of human optimism.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: El Babua on March 12, 2015, 04:22:33 PM: Quote from: Esch on March 12, 2015, 04:12:36 PM
Quote from: Bobby Doucher on March 12, 2015, 03:45:17 PM
Terry Goodkind.
Confusing the two :ufup

I know. :'(
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 12, 2015, 05:02:02 PM: Also good:

(http://i.imgur.com/QOIiEP5.jpg)

In retrospect, the City Watch books were probably my favorite of the Discworld series.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 12, 2015, 05:06:11 PM: Are Terry Pratchet's SRS BSNS books that he collaborated on with Stephen Baxter any good?
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: brob on March 12, 2015, 07:43:37 PM: RIP, he's in a better place now

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Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Dickie Dee on March 12, 2015, 07:56:33 PM: Quote from: Esch on March 12, 2015, 04:12:36 PM
Quote from: Bobby Doucher on March 12, 2015, 03:45:17 PM
Terry Goodkind.

Confusing the two :ufup

Terry Pratchett is a good author, Terry Goodkind is a randroid who looks like this:

(http://aidanmoher.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/terry-goodkind.jpg)

How has this not been made into an emoticon yet?
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 12, 2015, 09:09:44 PM: (http://aidanmoher.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/terry-goodkind.jpg)

omg, we NEED a terry goodkind rapecac emoticon
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: chronovore on March 12, 2015, 11:21:35 PM: I don't know whether or not to be sad that he passed, or happy that he didn't have to deal with the insidious, incessant, and horrifying lack of faculties accompanying Alzheimer's. I'll go with sad, I guess.

Another huge loss for the fantasty/sf community.

Quote from: Esch on March 12, 2015, 04:12:36 PM
Quote from: Bobby Doucher on March 12, 2015, 03:45:17 PM
Terry Goodkind.

Confusing the two :ufup

Terry Pratchett is a good author, Terry Goodkind is a randroid who looks like this:

(http://aidanmoher.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/terry-goodkind.jpg)

As much as I'm happy to dump on Goodkind, let's not shit up Pratchett's memorial thread with this filth.
Title: Re: Terry Pratchett has left us
Post by: Stoney Mason on March 13, 2015, 02:11:02 AM: Never read a Terry Pratchett book even though every says if you love Douglas Adams you should read Terry Pratchett. I'll get around to it someday.