The Works of Terry Pratchett

[Laira]

Did anyone see Hogfather? I only saw the last 2 minutes, so I don't know if it was a good adaptation or not.

[kateln]

laira said:

Did anyone see Hogfather? I only saw the last 2 minutes, so I don't know if it was a good adaptation or not.

I thought it was good. It's playing again on the 11th&12th.

Watching all 4 hours at once though? I fall asleep.

[Karen]

Damn.

I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early
onset Alzheimer's, which lay behind this year's phantom "stroke".

We are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism. For now work is continuing on the completion of Nation and the basic notes are already being laid down for Unseen Academicals. All other things being equal, I
expect to meet most current and, as far as possible, future commitments but will discuss things with the various organisers. Frankly, I would prefer it if people kept things cheerful, because I think there's time for at least a few more books yet )

I haven't liked the latest books as much as the early ones, but this is still sad.

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It really is sad, and feels unfair that it's happening to a mind that's so creative.

Terry's one of my favourite authors so I hope it progresses slowly enough that he has time to hammer out quite a few more and I'm glad he's been as prolific as he is.

[Ripley]

NOOOOO!!!!!!!! That's not fair!!!!

BOO! to the universe!

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It's a mark of how many of his books I've read (at least 20) and how much I've inhabited his world that when I was told this last night I actually felt it as a real personal blow.

I'm horrified. I think I'd rather anything than Alzheimers, especially as I saw a documentary a couple of months ago on UK T.V. about a wife looking after her Alzheimers husband, and her life was hellish for years and years. It really affected me. So am feeling very angry about this news.

[bee]

I gave myself Making Money for Christmas and enjoyed it but didn't really find it anything special. Maybe a re-reading will make me like it more. It did prompt me to re-read Going Postal ... and once I start re-reading TP I find it hard to stop.

There are few authors I really enjoy diving into a new novel as much as I do with TP's, so I'm pretty disappointed that he's got Alzheimers.

One thing about Making Money I'm struggling to get out of my mind is Cosmo Lavish. Never has Pratchett bought me so close to throwing up.