Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Terry Pratchett

Nancy's guest in November is one of the world's most popular writers, Terry Pratchett. In addition to his highly successful Discworld series, Pratchett has written numerous books for young adults and children. His book, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won Britain's highest honor for a children's book, the Carnegie Medal. Pratchett is in Seattle to read from his new book, Wintersmith, the third in his Tiffany Aching series. Original air date: 11/6/2006
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[@angelaburrow8114]

Watching this was wonderful, I was smiling & reminiscing about the books but then the video ended, & I remembered that Pterry is gone & there will be no new books. I'm not ashamed to say I'm crying. The death of someone I'd never met but who mattered to me so much & shaped my life * (how can I talk about Pterry without a footnote?) hurts more than any other death I've experienced. I still have both my parents, thankfully, & the only grandparent I knew died following a decade of Alzheimer's (that bloody evil disease!); my grandmother was only a shell, unable to speak or move, & had ceased being the gran I loved for many years, so her actual passing was a relief, an end to her suffering. Pterry still had so much to give the world & he is certainly missed. My wife & I have a ritual, at night & sometimes during the day we cuddle up & read the entire series of books together, from The Colour of Magic to Snuff, then the Tiffany Aching books, followed by his non-Discworld works & short stories, then we start again. The entire sequence takes between 10-12 months, alternating between reading out loud to each other or simply reading silently from the same book. We also don't use an ebook reader for his works, preferring to hold the actual books. We still haven't read Rising Steam. We bought the hardback when it was released, but are keeping it unread so we always know we'll have one last book to read. I'm sure that one day we'll read it, as a way of saying a formal goodbye to an author we genuinely loved more than all others. He was our matchmaker & our beloved friend, our inspiration, our moral code & our entertainment. We both already loved reading before either of us read his books. We'd read Tolkien & other fantasy works, but preferred other genres, until we both first visited the Discworld independently. If I had ever been lucky enough to meet Pterry I'd have simply thanked him for his imagination & his humanity, & for being such a positive influence on my life. * I've been with my wife for almost 19 years & our love of the Discworld brought us together.

[@miss.antidote]

Amazing, Thank you for writing. I cried when I heard too. I still cry about it sometimes.

[@Sach1967-e4j]

A wonderful human being. We are so lucky to have had him. GNU Sir Terry Pratchett ❤️

[@danielmatthews8475]

Dang, I forgot how much I missed Sir Terry. Great interview.

[@jroastpotatoes]

He understands humanity equally, more than anyone

[@satanicdaggaorgyband560]

GNU Sir Terry

[@shadriX]

GNU Terry Pratchett

[@angelinaaylward5506]

The TV production of Good Omens 2 really needed TPs input. I know Gaiman and STP planned 'a sequel' together. I'd very much like to see Good Omens 3 made much to be more 'Pratchett-esqe'

[@mehalld]

I've said for some time, if Terry was alive, and they didn't know for sure that they would get a Season 3, he wouldn't have let S2 end like that. But Gaiman had already said he'd write a piece of what his and Terry's agreed ending was if they didn't get a S3, so knowing we are getting a Season 3 I feel hopeful that we do see that Terry light in the darkness.

[@s.asadeghi9612]

for Gaiman fans such as myself it was more than obvious +80% of S2 was his pen and not terry. there was no world ending plot so ofc Terry's note weren't used :) but I feel it was the perfect set up for the world ending plot of S3 which would be Neil-Terry magic once more

[@cathygould]

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