Posted on 03/12/2015 9:19:32 AM PDT by Lorianne
That was a good book :)
My favorite is I Shall Wear Midnight out of the Tiffany Aching series :)
Excellent author gone way too soon, he will be sorely missed.
I wonder if “the luggage” will march in the funeral procession?
RIP
Looks like he was quite the dapper gentleman.
I saw this news first thing this morning, and it actually had me in tears. Terry Pratchett’s one of my very favorite authors, because of the way he blended low, biting comedy with a keen moral sense. (I especially love his novel, “Night Watch,” though you need to read some of the other Disc World books first for it to make a lot of sense.)
My husband and I were privileged once to take him to lunch at a SF convention in Texas. He didn’t seem shy at all, rather he seemed thoroughly at home (perhaps because he was surrounded by hundreds of fans? LOL!) and said whatever he liked. I remember he complimented my husband and me on not seeming very American: “You’re not fat, and you’re dressed like adults!” He also had a good bit to say about the British royal family, this being the weekend that Princess Di bit the dust. He went on at some length about his theory that the royal family had had her done in. It was quite a lunch, and I’ll never forget it.
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