Terry Pratchett

There is a Terry Pratchett shaped hole in the world and I don't like it at all.



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Neverwhere, chapter 2

' it would be like describing the planet Jupiter as bigger than a duck '

Echoes of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett that ripples into Jasper Fforde (to name but a few). Because these authors' imaginations are, I like to think, good neighbours.

Wintersmith, chapter 13

I hate those things that try to take away what you are.

When you take away memories, you take away the person. Everything they are.

Wintersmith, chapter 10

Terry Pratchett and Jasper Fforde do not write the same way, but they do interpret the world similarly.

Narrativium.
The basic element of stories, which you can only detect by watching the way all the others behave . . .

Wintersmith, chapter 3

Miss Treason had power because they thought she did.


And this part is why I enjoy reading Pratchett. And now Miss Treason.

Wintersmith, chapter 2

In Wintersmith, books are considered dangerous. Because they are. Because Terry Pratchett knows how to tell a powerful story, in the guise of humour.

The Light Fantastic

No self-respecting High Priest is going to go through all the business with the trumpets and the processions and the banners and everything, and then shove his knife into a daffodil and a couple of plums. —Rincewind

The Light Fantastic

The Colour of Magic / The Light Fantastic reminds me somewhat of Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I think it's the way so much is going on, and how random it appears. Also Rincewind / Twoflower have a Ford Prefect / Arthur Dent something about them, only reversed.

The Colour of Magic (2008)

Isn't Jeremy Irons lovely? Um, some other stuff's happened too -- I've been too busy admiring Jeremy's hair and spotting the bits filmed in Snowdonia. (Pyg Track!)

Laughed lots, and there are a few deviations from the book...

But it's that changeable sort of story, like The Hitchhiker's Guide.

The Colour of Magic

remarkable

a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa, home of the firegods or so it is said

The Colour of Magic

"You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now."

Good Omens, "Sunday"

INEFFABLE
adj. That cannot be expressed or described in language; too great for words; transcending expression; unspeakable, unutterable, inexpressible. [OED]

Dare I go so far as to say, an ineffable story ? Perhaps not, but it is good.

Good Omens, "Saturday"

can't put book down

Good Omens, "Friday"

'What I've always wondered,' said Brian, 'is why they call 'em UFOs when they know they're flying saucers. I mean, they're Identified Flying Objects then.'

Good Omens, "Thursday"

Look, 'scuse me for askin', if it's not a personal question, but are you a witch?

The world is about to end --in 3 days-- and I'm not yet halfway through the book. I haven't a clue what might be next, but I trust Pratchett and Gaiman that it will be fantastic. In all definitions of the word.

Good Omens, "Wednesday"

Aziraphale and Crowley, if not more human, seem to have much more person than many other human characters I've read.

'Oh dear,' muttered Aziraphale, not swearing with the practiced ease of one who has spent six thousand years not swearing...

Good Omens, "Eleven years ago"

This book is well read, highly-recommended, and even higher-ly reviewed.

It deserves every adverb of it. Already.


⁶ Nominally a city. It was the size of an English country town, or, translated into American terms, a shopping mall.

Good Omens, "In the beginning"

Compiled and edited, with Footnotes of an Educational

Nature and Precepts for the Wise,

by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

⁵ It is probably worth mentioning at this point that Mr Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.