03-12-2015, 11:31 AM | #1 | |
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Terry Pratchett Dies Age 66
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03-12-2015, 01:22 PM | #2 |
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This sucks.
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03-12-2015, 03:40 PM | #4 |
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And now 2015 is officially worse than 2014.
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03-12-2015, 05:39 PM | #5 |
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Aw, man. Pretty sad about this, my day is now even worse than it already was.
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03-13-2015, 08:24 AM | #6 |
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The End. Fuck me I cried.
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03-13-2015, 10:51 AM | #7 |
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Goddamnit.
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03-15-2015, 01:18 PM | #8 |
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Yeah, I was at Adam's and it ended up getting brought up in one of the nightly family discussions.
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03-15-2015, 02:21 PM | #9 | |
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Yeah it sucks. Other authors have written funny books, or compelling stories, or had something worth saying and said it well. I can maybe name a dozen authors who manage two of those simultaneously. PTerry did all three and made it look easy. Everything he wrote was so densely packed with references to everything from pop culture to ancient mythology to centuries worth of literary canon that explaining it all would increase his volume of writing tenfold yet it never felt heavy-handed. He reminded us that funny does not mean trivial. If you go looking for other authors who pull off all these things at the same time then you end up with only Shakespeare. Pratchett was the bestselling author in Britain for about a decade (before the cultural phenomenon that is Harry Potter meant JK Rowling pushed him into second) and I can think of no-one more deserving. Losing him at the relatively young 66 has robbed us of what could've been 20 more classics.
Human relationships are essentially transactional - we care because of what we get out of them, even if that's just the warm fuzzies. Pratchett gave so much laughter and meaning to so many and will be sorely missed.
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03-15-2015, 05:38 PM | #10 |
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Concept, what do you know of/think of Terry Deary?
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03-15-2015, 05:41 PM | #11 | |
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Horrible Histories guy? He's pretty great. Can't say I know much about him asides from HH though.
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03-15-2015, 05:49 PM | #12 |
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I've never read a single Pratchett book, so I feel like I missed out on the hullabaloo surrounding his celebration. I'm not entirely sure why. As a child, almost all the best-selling British authors were readily available in book stores and through the Scholastic book orders. Rowling, Deary and the dead folks Dahl, Tolkein and Christie.
Deary, who I believe is also one of the best selling British authors, had a pretty huge impact on my development, and along with Dahl (and the BBC) is why I have a British twinge to my speech. It's just rather eerie that I can only look at Pratchett dying as an outsider, considering (unlike Eoin Colfer) his writing was contemporary with my growing phases. Incidentally, over the years I have struggled with wonder at whether or not Deary was male or female. Terry is a gender neutral name in the states, but it's more commonly female. Historically I used to assume all authors were male (J.K. Rowling included). Over the years in essays and the like with Deary, teachers have corrected me on the proper pronouns to indicate Deary as a she, to the point I believed it until I looked up the truth earlier this year.
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