Rincewind Posted 3 July 2014 Posted 3 July 2014 Looks like his condition is getting worse. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/02/terry-pratchett-cancel-appearance-alzheimers-discworld
LC/FC Posted 3 July 2014 Posted 3 July 2014 Of all the crappy authors that write trash like Twilight and 50 shades that are fine and healthy and yet such a literary genius is slowly being taken from our grasp by the worst possible disease a mind such as his could suffer from
leicsmac Posted 3 July 2014 Posted 3 July 2014 The amount of courage and humour he's facing what's to come with is unreal. Amazing author and an amazing man.
Jon the Hat Posted 3 July 2014 Posted 3 July 2014 Shame. I used to like his books when I was a teenager. Great author.
Guest MattP Posted 3 July 2014 Posted 3 July 2014 I remember watching a program a few years back that was trying to show him come to terms with his condition, was terrible to watch. Poor man. I loved his books as a child.
leicsmac Posted 3 July 2014 Posted 3 July 2014 I remember watching a program a few years back that was trying to show him come to terms with his condition, was terrible to watch. Poor man. I loved his books as a child. I enjoy them even now. Reckon that's a judgement on me? I will say the tone of the books has shifted a fair bit since the early ones, especially from around Night Watch onwards. Much more serious in theme and message. Night Watch itself is probably the darkest of the lot.
Guest MattP Posted 3 July 2014 Posted 3 July 2014 I enjoy them even now. Reckon that's a judgement on me? I will say the tone of the books has shifted a fair bit since the early ones, especially from around Night Watch onwards. Much more serious in theme and message. Night Watch itself is probably the darkest of the lot. I can't judge you anymore after sneaking off to Korea. Truckers and Diggers were the two books that got me into him but I can't say I've read any of his later works, anything to recommend in addition to Night Watch?
leicsmac Posted 3 July 2014 Posted 3 July 2014 I can't judge you anymore after sneaking off to Korea. Truckers and Diggers were the two books that got me into him but I can't say I've read any of his later works, anything to recommend in addition to Night Watch? Well, the entirety of the Discworld series (especially - as I said- the later stuff) is worth reading. The book Night Watch is part of the Sam Vimes/City Watch arc of the series and I think you'd get a kick out of those, so that would be a good place to start. The order of that arc is: Guards Guards!, Men At Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Thud, and Snuff. So start with Guards! Guards! and make your way through. If you're looking for one standalone book in the series to try first, Small Gods is probably the funniest, while Going Postal (the beginning of the von Lipwig story arc) is the best
OzFox Posted 3 July 2014 Posted 3 July 2014 That's sad news, although it sounds like his sense of humour is intact. 'Mort' was always my favourite, where Death has a mid life crisis and takes on an apprentice
Rincewind Posted 3 July 2014 Author Posted 3 July 2014 I have almost all of the Discworld. If you want something different with fact as well as fiction try the Science Of Discworld books. There is a story theme involving the Wizards and Rincewind. Mort is good when Death goes in a bar to drown his sorrows because nobody likes him. I read a quote from Terry Pratchett which went something like ' I received a letter from a kind old lady saying my illness was a gift from God but to be honest I would have preferred a wooly jumper.' Now that is the sort of thing I want to emulate in my writing.
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