Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on January 17, 2020, 06:41:25 PM
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Rather lovely and Paul Kaye does a splendid job
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fjlvx
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Warched the first 25 minutes. Will watch the rest later. Finished reading "Wintersmith" last night. I came late to STP, so have a fair amount of his books still to read.
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Warched the first 25 minutes. Will watch the rest later. Finished reading "Wintersmith" last night. I came late to STP, so have a fair amount of his books still to read.
I am grateful to the three boys in my class years ago who recommended 'Truckers'!
Gordon has sometimes mentioned that he has tried to read Disc World but can't get into them. I wonder whether his children and/or grandchildren have read them?
I was on a train journey and the only book I had was 'Truckers'and for the first part of the book could not see at all what was remotely funny, but had nothing else to read so continued, especially as, if boys of about 10 or 11 liked it, then it had something special. Halfway through I was laughing out loud, it was just so funny! So then I started on the Disc World. The first two books were not really funny, but I'd started so was going to continue. Found out years later, that those first two books had not captured the feeling of the Disc World and could have been passed by.
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I read the first seven in publication order, but couldn't immediately get a copy of No. eight ('Guards! Guards!'), so jumped to no. nine ('
Faust Eric'), and then started reading them in any old order. I think my favourite collection is the witches, although my favourite character is Carrot - so endearingly naive, idealistic and enthusiastic.
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Unlike with any other famous person, it chokes me up to think of Terry Pratchett's death. I didn't know him but, all his characters died with him: Rincewind, The Luggage, The Witches, Death (ironically), Gaspode, Carrot, Angua, Vetinari and especially Sam Vimes and I knew all of them.
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Unlike with any other famous person, it chokes me up to think of Terry Pratchett's death. I didn't know him but, all his characters died with him: Rincewind, The Luggage, The Witches, Death (ironically), Gaspode, Carrot, Angua, Vetinari and especially Sam Vimes and I knew all of them.
Oh, I do so agree. Nice to know that Luggage ended up with a wife and family and that Sir TP tied up those sort of loose ends in 'Raising Steam', but, well, the end of the Disc World leaves a gap which cannot be filled.