#1 2015-03-12 12:19:40
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#2 2015-03-12 13:16:11
I just found out. I'm pretty gutted. Sixty-six is just too fucking young for a genius like him to leave us.
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#3 2015-03-12 14:02:04
Hogfather is our go to holiday film, well fuck Xmas and all that anyway. I will miss Terry's presence not that we knew each other, but the knowing that someone was that good at his craft was always reassuring. I have a heck of a lot of catch up to get through all of his works.
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#4 2015-03-12 14:09:31
Damn me. I thought he had opted for an early out months ago.
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#5 2015-03-12 14:41:11
Woo. That was a scare. I thought you posted that Teri Hatcher died at first. I don't know this fella but I bet he doesn't have a behind like Teri's. Mmmmmm
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#6 2015-03-12 14:52:05
What Terry wore to fantasy conventions:
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#7 2015-03-12 15:58:22
Just saw this on BBC News - first thing I did was come over to high-street. I hope he got to meet Death of Rats and Binky.
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#8 2015-03-12 18:42:14
For those coming late to the party...
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#9 2015-03-12 20:46:12
The Internet--or at least the portions of it that I look at regularly--has just about fucking exploded today. I knew he was big in the UK but I had no idea there were so many fellow fans here in 'Murca.
I have cried several times today. I am trying to remember the last time I cried over a person I never personally knew...I think it was for John Lennon, and I was TWENTY then, and cried a lot more easily.
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#11 2015-03-14 11:35:24
choad wrote:
Well, my day is shot.
If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, travelling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abcesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say 'yes'.
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#12 2015-03-14 11:55:11
Neil Gaiman (if you don't know his work you're an idiot and go find out about it right now) knew Sir Terry for over 30 years, since before either of them was famous. They were great friends and collaborated on a hilarious novel. The below is quite long, but take the time. It is fascinating.
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#14 2015-03-26 07:03:21
Baywolfe wrote:
For those coming late to the party...
https://cruelery.com/uploads/thumbs/157 … 80-960.gif
clicky
Thank you for that, if for nothing else than a check-off list. But it seems like there should be more.
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#15 2015-03-26 18:54:33
I didn't discover Pratchett until fairly recently. I remember telling George Orr that I didn't think much of him. I'd confused him with Alan Dean Foster. I hope that in some parallel universe I'm able to apologize to Terry for that.
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#16 2015-03-26 20:14:48
Somehow I just never did start reading Pratchett, even though I'd seen the books and was interested. I thought I had better things to do.
I just started reading The Color Of Magic last week, and the first paragraph was enough to convince me I should have done it a long time ago.
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#17 2015-03-27 19:00:54
opsec wrote:
I didn't discover Pratchett until fairly recently. I remember telling George Orr that I didn't think much of him. I'd confused him with Alan Dean Foster. I hope that in some parallel universe I'm able to apologize to Terry for that.
Yeah, Alan Dean Foster's claim to fame was taking Star Trek scripts and novelizing them.
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