Sir! Terry! Pratchett!!!

[damppanties]

*watches her approach, thinking she has a femme fatale thing going on...her eyes...very nice*

Me? Femme fatale? Of course not! Stop trying to get attention away from you and Pratchett.

 

[Katiecat]

I think it's great that he was knighted...loved "Good Omens" with Neil Gaiman.

But did anyone else read on and see that he was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's? That's really sad...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I think it's great that he was knighted...loved "Good Omens" with Neil Gaiman.

But did anyone else read on and see that he was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's? That's really sad...

His legions of fans have know that for almost a year, now. That makes this honor an odd mixture of celebration and grief. The worst part is that he's having a terrible time writing. My understanding is that he hopes to finish one more book and to leave a clear enough outline of another that someone else can finish it for him. My vote would be, of course, Gaiman.

 

[rgraham666]

Hey, why shouldn't people be honored for the happiness they've added to the world? More of that, says I!

I raise a toast to the gentleman.

And that's how I feel about it.

Carrot and Vimes and all the rest of the people Of Discworld never, ever, fail to make me smile.

 

[jomar]

Me? Femme fatale? Of course not! Stop trying to get attention away from you and Pratchett.

Ohh, you're good. I'll have to warn Terri you're on to us. And read a book by that guy who go that award.

 

[Cattypuss]

I heard Terry Pratchett talking about his knighthood on Radio 4 yesterday.. he said it was a wonderful thing for a fantasy writer, particularly, to get - and that he's half-tempted to rush out and buy a horse and a sword now.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I heard Terry Pratchett talking about his knighthood on Radio 4 yesterday.. he said it was a wonderful thing for a fantasy writer, particularly, to get - and that he's half-tempted to rush out and buy a horse and a sword now.

He may as well. He's already got the robes, pointy hat and staff with a knob on the end.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I wonder what Geronimo's head feels like this morning... What a cranky drunk!

I am just as happy for Sir Terry now-- as I was yesterday.

 

[Liar]

Yep, I'm in favor.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Huzzah for sir Pratchett! Sir Terry? Sir Terry Pratchett?

He's a wonder of an author, the way he sneaks in little sarcastic remarks that make me gasp and wheeze from hysterical laughter, amid the exciting and well-thought-out mysteries and hunts and adventures.

His work has inspired me greatly for my Walk's End novels.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Huzzah for sir Pratchett! Sir Terry? Sir Terry Pratchett?

He's a wonder of an author, the way he sneaks in little sarcastic remarks that make me gasp and wheeze from hysterical laughter, amid the exciting and well-thought-out mysteries and hunts and adventures.

His work has inspired me greatly for my Walk's End novels.

Even when you've read one of his books seven or more times and you know when the jokes are coming, when they arrive all you can do is howl with laughter, twitching helplessly.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I wonder what Geronimo's head feels like this morning... What a cranky drunk!

I am just as happy for Sir Terry now-- as I was yesterday.

Me, too. I don't read a lot of fantasy, but do enjoy his Discworld series.

That said, I can't help reacting to the bittersweet aspects of the award related to his Alzherimers. It got my mother. I hate, and at 61, fear the condition. But somehow, having a creative mind like his or the late Iris Murdoch's negated by Alzheimers seems especially tragic.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Just-Legal]

Terry Pratchett has managed to get my mother banned from the staff room at work (laughing too much) and myself thrown out of a few libraries.

But YAY!

Also: Horse. Sword. Must see.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Even when you've read one of his books seven or more times and you know when the jokes are coming, when they arrive all you can do is howl with laughter, twitching helplessly.

I recently discovered a short story by him that I had never read before. (Happy happy joy joy!!!)

"The unadulterated Cat".

I was laughing so hard that tears gushed from my eyes, and I could hardly breathe. That part where he's trying to break into his neighbour's house..! And Oscar the Traveller - and the time-travelling cats..!!!!

 

[Liar]

The thing that makes Pratchett's stories special is imo not that they're funny. They are, but that's nothing unique. Britain has a great tradition of humor novelists that can all make me laugh.

But Pratchett is the only humorist, and one of very few novelists, popular or classic, whose characters never fail to make me care. Although cartoonish and not all that complex, they immediately feel like fully realized people that taps right into my empathy. I want to grab a beer with Moist von Lipwig and Sam Vimes, adopt Tiffany Aching and marry Susan Sto-Helit.

He's also one of the few authors I know who can deliver a message without messing it up. His books often have a moral, a zietgeist comment or political message about the world we live in. But it's very hard to deliver that without either being too vauge, or becoming preachy. He always manage to walk that thin line.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

As one critic so accurately put it, he reminds us of no one so much as Chaucer. Whether academics agree or not.