/lit/ - Literature

duh, no

Rest in peace, m8. You're no stranger for the Grim Reaper, at least.

only 66

>>6257826
You bullshitter you, you even changed the wikipedia article. Good job, could have caught me 4/10

meh never read his stuff

Inb4 edgy posts.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

RIP IN piece

>>6257826
God, he sucked. RIP in pieces.

>>6257837

Nah mate, the official Facebook group just stated it 5 minutes ago.

>>6257826
inb4 sticky

/d2g/
/rsg/
/tv/
/ck/
/d/
/s/

checking in

Never read him
Never will
RIP

farewell

Welp, time to go to the liquor store.

literally who?

'no'

>>6257826
:^(

apology for poor english

when were you when terry pratchett dies?

i was sat at home reading ayn rand when karl ring

‘terry is kill’

‘no’

and you?????????????

>>6257826

>dying from Alzheimer's literally on the day its cure is discovered

Shiggidy

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/12/alzheimers-breakthrough-as-ultrasound-successfully-treats-disease-in-mice

>>6257826
I am crying now. I was reading Thud! not even an hour ago. He was the only author that always made me laugh and that constantly re-kindled my love for literature when I was despairing. I'm upset.

>>6257851
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Terry+pratchett

he influenced my childhood so I will miss him

I'm not a fan of genre fiction, but he at least tried to raise the bar with cultural references to Shakespeare, homer, etc. He was also a really good guy; campaigned for Alzheimer's, kind-hearted, funny, loving. I will not miss him for his body of work, but for his humanity.

> First Spock
> Now Sir Terry
> they always come in threes

No sir I don't like this

He sucked, love /vg/.

>>6257873
Who's next, anon?

I've got a horrible feeling that it'll be David Bowie

>>6257873
it must be another sci-fi/fantasy hero
goodbye Christopher lee

>>6257868
He influenced a lot of childhoods, Anon. How he avoided prison for it is a mystery.

>>6257840
>>6257839
called it

>>6257875
>>6257876
Morrissey just missed his latest concert due to illness. He has cancer.

>>6257826

STicky this.

/lit/ finally got a worthwile death. No more /tv/ domination!

>>6257826
RIP

Man, he totally looks like a younger, healthier version of my grandfather (plus a funny hat).

If only he didn't have skin cancer spending every waking moment in agony just being alive, comforted only by the ability to forget any truly searing moments courtesy of his dwindling metal capabilities. I really wish my grandma were still alive so he could be happy, but at least one or two of his kids are still around for him to see most of the time.

I don't want to be old.

Feels game too strong

>>6257879
By less than 1 second ....... nice

>>6257864
He was a human not a mouse. But I guess I can't expect /lit/ to know the difference.

>>6257875
You fucking take that shit back right now motherfucker

>>6257873
>>6257876

That's sad.

>>6257893
>what is a model organism

>genre fiction

>>6257897
>>6257876
>93 years old in a few weeks

>>6257875

dubs and Morrissey dies in Bowie's place

>>6257893
>But I guess I can't expect /lit/ to know that we don't do basic experimental research on humans

>>6257897
>>6257876
>>6257875
You guys
Q-quit it

>>6257903

reroll

>The thread is now a sticky.
>The thread is not a sticky anymore.
>The thread is now a sticky.

>>6257903
R-reroll
Oh God, hear me

>>6257905

>>6257911
YES
YES

YES
THANK YOU ANON

DON'T WORRY. I'LL TAKE GOOD CARE OF HIM.

>>6257826

>pay f to pay respects
f

>>6257911
The gods smile on you this day

>>6257875
Don't you put that evil out there.

was terry pratchett autistic or was artemis fowl?

or am i confusing him for the curious incident of the dog in the night time

>>6257912
youre late, i called it here >>6257844

>>6257917
>>6257920
>>6257911

>not realising Morrissey is the world's greatest cultural asset
stay pleb

>>6257873

Cleese?

>>6257919
Why the fuck do /v/ermin and crossboarding plebs need to shitpost here whenever a pleb author dies?

>>6257926
YOU BASTARD

One of my favorite authors. The Grim Reaper that I have tattooed on me is named Mort, and Good Omens is my favorite book. I'll miss him. At least he finally got to see Good Omens adapted like he always wanted, and even had a cameo in it.

Oh fuck me

>>6257926
palin looks frailer

>>6257928
>quality philosophical rumination, not

>>6257899
he still has a fair point you idiot, it's not as if you directly know the dosis required for humans in model organisms

>>6257935
>>>/v/

>favourite author dies of alzheimers
>almost exactly four years after my grandfather died of alzheimers

i did not need this

>>6257937
>dosis
tee-hee

Fuck I'm actually broken up over this. I loved his stuff and he always seemed like such a good man. Damn.

Good night sweet prince, seems you made it out before rush hour too.

;__;7

>>6257826
Damn, goodbye Terry you brought me a lot of joy.

No ;_;

>>6257881
Thing is, Morrissey is a cunt

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>6257938
Never been to that board. Odd how you think everyone you don't like is from there. Do they ruminate, or they just ruminants?

>>6257948
>not understanding the troll
lmao

I guess it's time I tried reading one of his books.

RIP

>>6257844
>>6257874
>>6257882
>>6257919
>>6257923
>>6257932
>>6257935
>>6257949
>>6257951
Crossboarders fuck off

>>6257937
You don't directly know, but the point of model organisms to demonstrate the ABILITY of a treatment

Goddamn

mod is english, huh

noooooo ;_;
one of my favourite authors ever.

As someone that is diagnosed with a similar illness to Alzheimer's (Huntington's) and a huge fan of his books I am very sad. His campaigning for euthanasia was really important to me.

How did he die? Did he forget to breath?

inb4 fags from other boards flood /lit/ and shit up our board

I wasn't this upset even when my grandfather died. Fuck.

>>6257961
it can't be made any worse than it already is.

>>6257893

Hide rodent threads
Ignore rodent posts
Do not respond to rodent posters

>>6257955
If you are a regular here, you are one of the reasons that people who actually love to read books, not fap about philosophy, come here a few times and then never come back. How about you *fuck* off?

Never really been into his stuff but I watched that documentary he did a few years ago about living with Alzheimer and it was tragic as fuck.

what a terrible thread.

Pretty sad to hear this, his last few books were a bit shit, but he had an amazing capacity to have such a great quantity of great material. Great humour, great genre work, and no small amount of literary merit.

If he didnt work mostly in fantasy I think he would be more widely regarded than he was. Really a modern PG Wodehouse.

>>6257961
Too late, just look at this thread.
Fucking plebs and their shitty genre fiction.

>>6257961
this is the first time ive been on /lit/ i only came here because i knew thered be a sticky since an important author died

>>6257923
your pic reminds me, he actually invented FOR YOU

https://archive.moe/tv/search/text/%22terry%20pratchett%22%20%2B%20%22for%20you%22/

Betting Stan Lee is next

>>6257826

never read him but his books are pretty popular in the bookstore I work at so I guess lots of people will be sad today. I am also guessing my boss is currently ordering many copies of his books

FANCY A CURRY?

>>6257965
Yes it can
Things can always be worse

Literally who?

you're all cunts, you know that?

SIR PRATCHETT, HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOUR EUTHANASIA?

>>6257974
good
maybe then comic books will die as they should have upon inception

His books were ok. I hoped Steven Erickson would've died before him though

George R.R. Martin had better hurry the fuck up and finish his books, he doesn't have long left either.

ALAS, SIR TERRY

Its a shame but I'm not terribly sad. I've been prepared for this for about 6 years or so.

>>6257981
nudge-nudge wink-wink level fantasy adventure for Brits

>>6257984
I think you could benefit from euthanasia, you worthless fucking cock.

I'd love to say inb4 /lit/ uses a dead man to profess how cool they are for not reading genre fiction, but I'm not that fast.


RIP Terry, now I'll have to read all those Discworld books I missed.

unseen academicals was his last good book imo

>>6257918
thanks death, you're a cool guy

About time.

>>6257826
I'm fucking crying, godammit.

>>6257990

>confirmed for never having read any

>>6257875
Pynchon

>>6257826
https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/576036888190038016

Reminder that before he died, Terry Pratchett made a sword out of a motherfucking meteorite.

You all have eighty years to do the same, but you never will. Pratchett got that shit under his belt within his last decade while fighting alzheimers.

>>6257878

HAHAHAAHAHA! YOU BASTARD. That's ridiculous. 10/10.

>>6258002
so it was suicide then?

>>6257990
Maximum gay. Got it.

>>6257991
>author of humorous books dies
>you can't even joke about his death
What's even the point

NO

who /goingpostal/ here

>>6257928

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

CORMAC MCCARTHY WHEN?

Damn, we all knew this was coming, but still.. he was one of those people you cannot imagine actually dying one day.

>>6257984
Alzheimer's isn't fatal you dunce. Do you think they'd announce it if they'd done something illegal?

May he forever rest in the celestial garbage can along with all other genre fiction writers.

As I said on the /tv/ thread, thank fuck, no more piss-poor watered down Douglas Adams for suburban dweebs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePRZC_OulYc
please close this toxic thread and just have this play on /lit/ in the background.

>>6258023
you're a cunt

Saul Kripke is dead?

>>6258023
> watered down Douglas Adams
he's much better than adams lmao

>>6258023
Except Pratchett never wrote anything as bad as the last two Hitchhikers books or Dirk Gently

>>6257918
thanks

fugg

Fuck the edgy comment's, this man is a pinnacle of modern British literature RIP

>>6258003
Never liked his sword choice. Terry was also fucking knighted.

I forgot, who is this guy again?

>AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/576036599047258112

Ah fuck why did THAT make me cry?

>>6258039
the pinnacle of comic fantasy novels
not the pinnacle of literature

>>6258032
his early Discworld very mcuh were watered down Douglas Adams. But by the third book they had become very much more.

Damn, it's real.
http://www.pjsmprints.com/

THeRe's ɴo justJce, tHeRe's just me.

>>6257973
i loved the bromeliad and i still do. i wish it was better known

>>6258023
they both catered for autismal fuckwads such as myself. embrace it

You're gonna carry that weight.

>>6257862
came here looking for this
RIP in peace

>>6257993
Couldn't finish Raising Steam, wonder if it was effecting him at that point or something

>>6257973

>>6258046
>http://www.pjsmprints.com/
They weren't expecting the traffic.

Oh, now it's working

>tfw I literally bought The Wee Free Men yesterday
>it was going to be my first book of his

>be literary pleb with no taste
>discworld are my favourite books
>this happens
sorry for polluting /lit/ but this hit me right in the feels

>>6258002

This came after a link to the announcement of his death. I don't think they'd be quite *that* cool about it even if they'd decided to lie.

>>6258055
>starting with his shitty kids books

Rest in peace.

Let's have some discussion to honour him, what is your favourite work of his ? Mine is either "Small gods" or "Guards! Guards!"

Boo hoo, another silly scribbler kicks the bucket.

Goddamnit this fucking sucks. I thought that he might be able to push on for a few more years.

Snuff was still really awesome and showed at least that his mind had not dulled. This shit is just too fucking soon.

>>6258061
Theif of Time or Lords and ladies

>>6258058

You must be new to /lit/. This is the best (least-worst) thread that's been on this shitty board in weeks.

>>6258061
anything with Death tbh

>>6258061
I really liked the stuff with Moist Von Lipwig, and how he was improving the technology of the world and stuff.

>>6258045

They'd become very much more shit.

He was the father of fedora. Envier of J. K. Rowling, pisstaker of suicided B. S. Johnson, friend of Neil 'Scientology' Gaiman, purloiner of already-famous jokes. He will be missed by the provincial and inadequate.

>>6258061
My favourites are Interesting Times and The Last Continent.

>>6257826
NO
FUCK NO
I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS
HE IS JUST HAVING A CHEAP CHAT WITH DEATH ABOUT NEXT BOOK RIGHT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD0XLytC0w
>Ouija board would you work for me
>I have got to say hello to an old friend
>Ouija board Ouija board Ouija board
>would you work for me?
>I have got to get through to a good friend.

woah lit has a sticky

>>6258061

Men at Arms, forever and always

>>6258065
Ah, yeah. I am here for the first time ever because this.
Like coming to /tv/ when actor dies.

my main board is /out/

>>6257876
Christopher Lee is immortal, pleb

>tfw my mum bought me one of his books but I never read it

Oh god im sorry terry

>>6258061
hogfather

because i am one of those deviants who actually like christmas

>>6258061
Guards! Guards! and Snuff, I loved Vimes.

>>6258082
get /out/

>>6258061
witches abroad. other books of his were more 'worthy', but witches abroad was like a literary security blanket for me, i must have read it at least 20 times.

>>6257990
>Literally the most published author in the world.
>Who

I'm kind of glad that all my favourite authors are already long dead.

well shit. I can't be the only one who bought half a shelf of his books. they are essential 13-yo core.

>>6257971
Same.

We're all here to pay respects. Why must we fight?

>>6257911
>no more Morrissey
Thank you, anon

>>6257826
i have most his books but never read any of them. Sorry sweet prince

Godspeed, Terry.

only 66? way too fucking young, he should be atleast a 90er.

>>6258094
had all of them between me and my sister,

>>6258070
>provincial

>>6258069
Hey I loved Moist's stuff too. Mainly because I have a hard-on for any novel where building something from nothing is central to the story.

I only ever read the ones my school library had, so I read stuff like Jingo and Feet of Clay and Wyrd Sisters but I never read Guards! Guards! Or the other 'essential' ones.

>>6258061

Guards! Guards! is the first Terry Pratchett book I read. So it will always have a special place in my heart.

>>6258096
fuck off pleb I bet you like daft punk

rip in peace Terry Pratchett

>>6258090

AH HA HA. You said he should "get out" because his primary board is Outdoors, which is abbreviated /out/!

Truly you are the philosopher-king of /lit/.

>>6257826
God damn it, I practically learned to read from his books.

>>6257922
beautiful

>>6258106
I bet you like men, gayrod

>>6258061
Mort and Reaper Man.

oh shit


who are the bbc going to have commenting on eurovision now?

>>6258061
Pyramids, Interesting Times, Night Watch.

>>6258113
yup

I still remember when Douglas Adams died.
This is even worse.

>>6257990

Yup.

Terry Pratchett's humour is a suburban beardy dad misquoting Hitchhiker's while eating an egg sandwich.

>>6258115
Ken Bruce, as usual.

>>6258055
Don't start with that one man. They really aren't his best. Either start at the beginning with Colour of Magic or a one of like Small Gods. Considering the circumstance Small Gods might be the way to go.

>>6258123
nobody likes you

>>6258104
I'm reading it right now. My first was Hogfather and then Reaper Man, because after Hogfather I wanted more death.

w-we have mods?

>>6258115
david Attenborough
>tfw he will be dead soon as well, like his brother

Came here for the first time to see if this elitist shithole is truly better than rest of 4chins. It isn't.

>>6258115

I love that you know Wogan retired years ago but decided to make that joke anyway. It barely works and it's dated, but the pointless malice of it is its own reward. Good work anon!

*Turns to the Discworld books on his shelf and salutes*
Didn't know what else to do.
Don Quixote, The Brothers Karamazov, Catch 22, And all these other "Literary" books. I wouldn't be reading if I hadn't gotten into reading in the first place, and I wouldn't have done that without Discworld.

>>6258061
I love any of the ones featuring Rincewind. I know they aren't the best books in the series but I love the character and they always feel the comfiest.

>>6258019
Cormac McCarthy will never die.

F

>>6258128

Cracking!

Didn't much like his last few books. They got all too dark and humorless since Monstrous Regiment or so.

But before then, it was a great ride.

Fare thee well.

damn, and at 66 too

>>6258135
it is
still that's like being the first tallest dwarf

>>6258139
*unzips dick*
Pshhh, nothin' personal, kid.

>>6258137
no fun allowed on this board, good policing anon!

da fucking fuck, not entering in /lit/ for years and first thing in my face is knowing Terry Pratchett died.

I hate this. I hate all. This is your fault. fuck.

I haven't even started reading Snuff yet.

>>6258061
oh fuck i already offered my opinion on this but then i remembered that the last hero was a thing

i mean kidby did the heavy lifting but still

>>6258139

They could have done without you, and they haven't helped you, you're still a dullard if you capitalize literary and put scare quotes around it.

my parents have insisted since I was a kid that I read discworld and I never got around to reading it. maybe I finally should?

There is a light that never goes out

>>6257835
For some reason I hope for most people to reach an age of at least 70, provided that they don't suffer through their last years.

Good bye, you old hoot

>>6258147
tbh that is what slowly dying does to your writing style

>>6257875
fuck you

>>6258019
>>6258143
we'd probably find out like a month later

>>6258069
never was the biggest fan of the Moist stuff. Seemed a bit repetative of his earlier work.

>>6258149
66 get

>>6258159

No, your parents are a pair of volkisch spacks, you should ignore their recommendation.

>>6258163
Yeah, I know. I can definitely understand why they ended up that way, and those books weren't even bad per se, I just greatly preferred the funny ones.

Fucking Alzheimer's.

>>6258165
he's been dead since the road but nobody has even reported it

NO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! I'M IN CHARGE HERE!

i was on holiday once, i got food poisoning, throwing up every couple of minutes, shitting in the gaps between puking, non-stop for about 36 hours. I read Witches Abroad cos i was freaking out a bit and couldn't do much other than read. it kept me sane. i'll always love terry for that bit of escapism he provided me during one of the grossest, most unpleasant times i've ever had.

>>6257875

Nah I'm betting it's gonna be John Williams

Death, you PIG SHIT CUNT. FUCK YOU. FUCK. YOU. GET FUCKED WITH A RAKE.

I am so fucking SICK OF YOUR SHIT.

GODDAMN IT.

FUCK.

RIP in peace you magnificent bastard.

F

>tfw it is impossible to adapt his work well to other media because of how verbal his humor is

there was a good radio version of Weird Sisters but everything else has been cringe-inducing.

then again maybe this is actually a good thing.

>>6258176
Pratchet>>>>projectile shitting
Hella recommendation!

I wanted to go to the last Discworld Convention to meet him but he cancelled his appearence. Now I'll never get to meet him.

>His death was announced on his Twitter account, on Thursday afternoon.

>The first tweet was composed in capital letters - which was how the author portrayed the character of Death in his novels.

>AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

>Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.

>The End.

RIP in peace Sir Terry. You were like a funny Douglas Adams.

>>6257955
I just posted a picture you twat

>>6258143
What's he a Cormac of

I can't get to sleep anymore without Nigel Planer or Stephen Briggs reading Discworld in my ears.

RIP you wossname.

that's really sad

city watch books are the best

"All the little angels rise up, rise up.
All the little angels rise up high!
How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
How do they rise up, rise up high?
They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!"

>>6258181
I would imagine there are many more audio plays, aren't there?
I mean, Douglas Adams was also well suited to both literature and radio and his verbal humor goes somewhat in the same direction.

>>6257956
Ability of a treatment which has to be verified, then tested again, then languish for years in ethics committees before we can try it on humans, and then tested again and again, then sit in some more ethics committees for a while, then a second wave of testing to double check, then development of how to do it as cheap as possible, then maybe it will work in some people but hopefully in quite a lot. It's not as if it can go straight from this to human patients.

>>6258191
>audio"books"

>>6257875
George RR Martin

>>6258184

Both are better than any writing anyone on /lit/ has or will produce.

>>6258198
>genre"fiction"

>>6257864
Alzheimer's must be extremely painful.

RIP OG Fedora

>>6257826
Looks like this Chucky needs a trip to the olllld international breeding grounds ;)

>>6258181
>tfw i love the books
>tfw i enjoyed the going postal TV movie

My wizards staff has feels on the end.

>Don’t think of it as dying, said Death. Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush

did he killed himself finally?

>>6258203
>"fiction"
Do you think Lord of the Rings is real my friend?

I ATEN'T DEAD

>>6258181

The Radio Adaptation of Good Omens was fucking perfect.

Loved his body of work. Sorry to see him go.

>>6258181
Weren't they going to make a live-action adaptation of Good Omens? Or was that canned?

>>6258205
For him :(

>>6258205
No. NO! I'm not saying it.

>>6258216
his brain ate itself

So did he kill himself? Because he talked a lot about euthanasia and 66 is a bit young to die of old age.

>>6258218
;_;

>>6258205
No pain for the patient, just confusion and anger and stupidity and frustration. Lots of pain for your caregivers.

>>6258228
alzheimer's kills, anon

>>6258227
cool

>>6258224

It was canned. They took the cast and did a radio drama instead.

His funniest joke was ripping the piss out of BS Johnson, a far less commercially successful writer who committed suicide because he couldn't provide for his family, leaving an impecunious widow, just as Pratchett's career was beginning.

What a mean little cock. No wonder he was mates with that necrophile homunculus Tony Robinson.

>>6258228
he had alzheimer's

>>6257826
Literary who?

>>6258228
no, alzheimer's beat him to it

WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN.

>>6258019

shhh

>>6258237
A literary person?

>>6258237
Literally google it.

>>6258235
>that necrophile homunculus Tony Robinson.
MY SIDES

Genre fiction is not literature, mod please unsticky this thread.

>>6258244

>>54245064

PYNCHON'S NEXT, SEARCH YOUR FEELINGS YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE

>old person dies

LOL WHO CARES?

There are hundreds of thousands of deaths DAILY in Gaza because of fucking KIKES and American ZOG

>>6258235
>Terry Pratchett has also known the former British Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, for a number of years and is believed to have based B.S. Johnson on him .[citation needed] Cf The Post Office Mail Sorter below - it is no coincidence that Alan Johnson used to be a postman. B.S. Johnson's name and abilities are also a parody of Capability Brown and also, perhaps, a reference to the experimental writer B. S. Johnson. B.S. Johnson's name and work with organ building is also a reference to famous organ composer J. S. Bach, who shares Johnson's initials reversed. Johnson's last name may be a reference to William Allen Johnson, organ builder and founder of Johnson Organs; he also bears several similarities with architect Philip Johnson, best known for building a Glass House. On the same expanse of land that the iconic House is built are several artistic pieces described by some as "Johnson follies."[3]

>>6257876
As long as there will be Saxons Christopher Lee won't rest

>>6258237
the /v/ of literature

>>6258251
>hundreds of thousands

>>6258250
>Pinecone dies
The memes can finally end

20 years ago this game came out. It was my first meeting with Pratchett's universe.

>Thread full of edgelords going on about how terrible writer he was and how happy they are that he died

How does it feel to be so edgy?

>>6258263
>How does it feel to be new here?

>>6258187
There's a penultimate tweet that links to 127.0.0.1

What was he trying to link???

>>6257826
Probably the main reason I studied lit at uni and became a teacher.

RIP in peace. You were like an uncle to me.

>>6258252

Why are they trying to pretend it isn't a really obvious dig from a comfy hack at a writer who made people like him feel stupid? Nobody who knows who they both are is in any doubt about the intention, it's not obscure, it's pointed, obvious and bizarrely petty.

>>6258235
why do you keep spamming this?

Why the hell would be base BS Johnson on someone also called BS Johnson? Especially since they have nothing in common, the character is one who is an engineer.

The quality of his books was steadily going downwards lately, but still a damn shame.

>>6257826
Came here to post this.

Now I'm going to introduce my gf to the Discworld

>>6258251
We like jews here

>>>/pol/

His last book is a Tiffany Aching book? I always thought those were terrible, at least compared to his other mini series. Oh well, I'll read it and love it.

>>6258263
>Reading genre fiction

>>6258265

(The Joke)

(Your Head)

Fucking English majors...

>>6258271
You misspelled *dick*

>>6258266

Have you been up in court for touching up the kids yet?

Sorry, but fantasy readers, you know. Weirdie beards. If it quacks like a duck - and most of you kinda do.

>>6258196

Adams was originally a radio writer. The Hitch-hiker books are novelisations of radio plays, not the other way around.

>>6258270
Honestly hard to blame him for that given what he was going through

>>6258271
I can introduce her to my dickworld if you like, cuck?

;^)

>>6258275
I don't see what that has to do with anything. Are you somehow obliged to projectile-shit on somebody's memory because you don't read their books?

>>6258271

Slip her the D, brah.

>>6258277
What? Because it's the "home" ip address?

>>6258283
I'm not American, pal

>>6258263
They don't think you can read for fun. All you're allowed to read is Joyce's gibberish while pretending he was anything but a hack.

>>6258275
All fiction is part of some genre, brah.

>>6258269

It's not spamming, his BS Johnson is a direct analogue. A landscape gardener whose work you can't walk around in = a writer who refuses to worldbuild, from the point of view of Pratchett. The blatant quality of it is precisely why it's so horrifying. When Pratchett started out in England, nobody was unaware of Johnson. It's like writing about a pompous cabinet-maker called Martin Amis.

>>6258061
Oh, that's a hard question.
Night Watch is the best one in a series sort of way, but I'll always love Thud! and it's "WHERE IS MY COW" moment, That got me right "in the feels" seriously, the idea of one day being a father and coming through like that
Small Gods is such a good stand-alone, but then again if you want to talk about stand-alone novels that are genius, you have to recognize Nation, even though it's not a Discworld.
It's impossible, can't pick a favorite, not this time.

>>6258292

nice justification for reading trash. intelligent people have fun reading real literature.

>>6258294
BS Johnson is not a landscape gardener in the books. You have never read his work.

>>6257873
>implying it wasn't Robin Williams

I met the guy back in 89 when he was releasing Truckers. I knew very little English back then and I was a wee boy anyway so no deep conversation was ever going to take place. Even so it left me with the impression that this guy was the most intelligent person by far that I had encounter so far in my short life (that and the only adult outside of movies that wore what seemed to me like a cowboy hat).
Funnily enough I do not enjoy his writings that much. My brother on the other hand swears by it.

Good Night Sweet Prince.

>>6258303
He designed the Patrician palace. He does a lot of thing

>>6258181
BBC's Night's Watch radio adaptation is solid, gave me really good Vimes vibes.

>>6258304
That was over six months ago.

>>6258303

Yes he is - he invented the hoho.

>>6257875
Please not Terry Gilliam

>>6258304
almost a year ago

>>6258061
Night Watch and Thief of Time for me.
Being the idiot I was it took me months for it to click they both took place at the same time.

Honourable mention to Pyramids for making me shudder when the death toll rang out from the disorganiser

my first foray to /lit/. what a horrible bunch of edgy elitist cunts you have here.

>>6258314
Do you mean the Watch death toll? Then that would be Jingo

>>6258311
he is not one single thing. He first appears as the designer of an Organ, and appears periodically from then on. He designs all kinds of strangely mystically broken devices that appear through the series.

>>6258303

On one occasion he is. Are you American? There is no fucking way an English writer of Pratchett's generation accidentally called a laughing stock B. S. Johnson.

>>6258058
Pratchett's works aren't particularly literary, but they're by no means bad. I read them when I was younger, so their appeal for me is much more nostalgic than it is artistic

>>6258021
What are they gonna do, arrest him?

>>6258289
neither am i mate

OOK OOOK OOK !

>The librarian says there will always be a shelf for his works in the UU Library. (accessible through L-Space for the knowledgeable)

>>6258313
Wow, I guess time flies when you're a faggot

>>6258292
Yeah, sure, I'm cool with people having different sort of tastes and debating them, but again, why do they need to come here to tell us how retarded we are and how the world is better off with the author dead and all that shit? They could just shut up and keep their thoughts to themselves for once.

It just feels really weird and mean-spirited.

>>6258061
Guards! Guards! and The Truth, probably. Good Omens as well, but it's a collaboration so not sure I can count that.

>>6258295
This. Night Watch was the pinnacle and conclusion of Vimes as a character, but Thud! had a quote that always stuck with me:

No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

>>6258318

Yeah, but that other guy said he wasn't a landscape gardner. He was, amongst other things.

I always thought he was a Capability Brown expy myself, with some extras.

>F

>>6258021
lol u moran it es fatal

>>6258327

It's not weird, no. Pratchett took the piss all the time, he was a bitter little cunt until he got saintly because he was about to peg it. Fuck him, the runtish little sperglord.

>>6258302
no i don't

>>6258316
Glad to hear it
Now never come back

>>6258061
Small Gods, Night Watch, Interesting Times and Jingo.

>>6258329
Night Watch and Thud are two of his best, I think Vimes was by far the most well written character.

>>6258262
have the games aged well? I've never played them despite reading every single novel up to Making Money

I never thought this day was ever really going to come.

Goodnight, sweet prince. You will be missed.

At least he didn't have to suffer Alzheimer's further. RIP, Sir Terry Pratchett

>>6258318
what exactly was it the shower that Ridcully used did?

>>6258319
I wouldnt say accidentally. I would say incidentally. BS Johnson was never hugely popular. Pratchet was a genre writer.

Particularly, since, as I said, the character in the books cannot even be remotely compared to the writer.

>>6258334
Confirmed for being part of a group he satirized.

I hope David Cameron dies next

>>6258295
Nation has a terrible ending
>b-but it's supposed to be a parody of good endings
it's still shit, ruins the entire book

>>6258339
Vimes is my favourite character, the only thing I dislike about him is that he seemed to take over from Weatherwax and what could have been some of her development.

>>6258339
Lord Vetinari was quite fun as well, but I agree that Vimes was probably the best character.

>>6258344
Connected to a grand organ , so i assume a whole lot of wind/noise

>>6258317
Ah right yes, got that mixed up. Been a few years since reading them.

>>6258339
Indeed. I get where all the trash talk is coming from, there are many flaws with many books throughout the series. Vimes however was so damn real, I excuse every single meh Discworld book I've ever read.

>>6258340
Honestly. Not really!

But my nostalgia have made them my favorite since childhood. So I can look past their faults.

>>6258334
You can't get any edgier without sewing razors to your dick. Stay angry, attention whore.

Damn...

Fuck I hope this doesn't bring more new posters here like when moot btfo of /pol/ and they took refuge here

>>6258357
He turned on a tap that did something and he wouldn't speak of it afterwards.

>>6258295
>>6258329
I can't say I liked Vimes going from anti-hero/accidental hero to crystal clear undefeatable superhero. Overall his books were slowly loosing grit, shadiness and dark irony in favor of optimism, happiness, equality and peace for all etc. Not that interesting IMO.

>>6258344
old faithful is a famous geyser
it's a hot spray of water into your ass

>>6258355
I'm mad that Terry stopped writing about the witches, who the fuck cares about tiffany holy shit
I'm even madder that we could have 4 more discworld books if not for those

>>6258362
In which ways have they aged badly?

>>6258351

You give 6258334 too much credit. He's nowhere near interesting enough to be part of a group. He's just a faggot. These posts we make about him will be the height of his fame.

>>6258367
this
the amount of plebbery in this thread is staggering

>>6257864

You don't die of the memory loss component of alzheimers anon, you die of strokes

>>6258366
Fuck...

I liked Rincewind, even if he didn't

-I need volunteers!
Rincewind: I don't want to go sir
-I never asked you
Rincewind: I know how my life works.

>>6258371
Eh, I agree that he overstayed his welcome. As I hinted earlier, Night Watch should have been the last Vimes book.

Why, cruel world! Why!

Rest in peace, Sir Pratchett. You'll be missed.

>>6258373
He's a rugby player.

>>6258302
>intelligent people
>Doesn't capitalise
I bet you're 14

>>6258367
>>6258375
I'm here for the first time. I think I'll stick around just to annoy you snobs. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fczjCi73So8

thread theme

>>6258366
Shit...

>>6258375
>>6258367
Any other good books like Pratchetts'? I keep hearing good things about this thing called Infinite Vest which sounds like it could be funny. Or The Brothers by Kara Mazov.

Discworld got me into reading books and his campaigning for the right to die was inspirational.

Sad day.

This is so sad. I gew up reading his books. I think I even learned half of my english vocabulary from his books, even though the swedish translations were excellent as well.

A brilliant mind with a great sense of humour, I'm going to re-read Thief of Time in honor of his memory this weekend.

>>6258367
It's too late, we're going to have cross-boarders out the ass for the next month because of this.

>>6258388
both are shit anyway
start with the greeks

>>6257959
>His campaigning for euthanasia was really important to me

That will something that seriously pissed me off about him actually.

>>6258346

It's not incidental for a rich man to take the piss out of a suicided poor man, no. Never.

B. S. Johnson was, in his life, well known and admired, though never widely popular. He couldn't have failed to be aware of him. The relative popularity is WHY I say it's obscene. Pratchett had no need to make such a dig, but he deeply resented the acclaim accorded literary writers, and Johnson's attitudes to the novel probably fucked with his sense of the dignity of his dogged, plagiaristic, uninspired cranking.

>>6258366
No...

>>6257875
It's gonna be Wladimir Putin

>>6258158
>being this angsty
Imagine being this insecure that you had to piss in a grief thread to show that you were superior to other people. Nothing you read is ever going to be enough to make you not be the person who did that.
Judy Blume and Stephen King are going to go in your lifetime, are you going to go on the internet and be a prick in their memorial tributes too?

>>6258386
>not this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIQquWxyK4

>>6258396
Why? I should be able to choose when I want to die.

>>6258351

The only people who didn't get 'satirized' by that piece of shit were the kind of vermin he represented, so it's no stretch to imagine I would have been on his list.

>>6258385
What is your favourite book?

>>6258061
his Witches and Watch books

>>6258367
/sp/ here. the football discussion's a bit slow til evenings, i might stay here and talk pratchett all day from now on. what was your favourite pratchett character?

>>6258371
Vimes started out great, but then Terry had him rise in rank in each book. And Vetinari became more and more ridiculous in the books, like being in the train undercover in 'Raising Steam'.

Carrot also seemed to go nowhere from The Fifth Elephant onward.

>>6258396
oh do fuck off with your stupid Christianity meme

>>6258414
Vimes

>literally just finished reading Mort before going to sleep last night
I....I did this /lit/...shit.

Good Omens remains my favorite comfy book of all time. RIP

>>6258407

>posting Jeff Buckley

It's like you're trying to destroy me, anon.

>>6258365

He was! It's just true.

>>6258375
>>6258367
I'm such a pleb I normally only read manga and translated light novels.

>>6258396
What? Why? Did you watch his documentary on it?

>>6258410
he did like to satirize cunts so probably

>>6258412
Night Watch, probably. Or Pyramids.

>>6258426

>>6258334
>babby's first exposure to Horatian satire

Ayy lmao.

>>6258397
but there was no dig, except in your own demented mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_of_the_Discworld#Bloody_Stupid_Johnson

he is a comic device. The discworld series has many, from the assassins guild, the unseen university and so on.

Pratchett was not wealthy at the time of his early disc world novels either. They were also not even remotely contemporary.

>>6258424
OH MOTHER I CAN FEEL THE SOIL FALLING OVER MY HEAD

>>6258431

>>6258414
>tfw no ellie gf

>>6258372
>In which ways have they aged badly?

The first one has a lot of bugs, and if you have never played the games before the puzzles operate on insane logic, how I managed to solve the game without a walkthrough I have no idea. I recently tried playing them and solving the puzzles with only the info from the game and it's insane.

The backgrounds are good, but the animations suffer. Sometimes Rincewinds lines are read by Rob Brydon.

The second feels like three separate ideas strung into one game, with the last three acts becoming shorter and the plot not going anywhere.

The third has very date CGI.

>>6258421
I'd make some shitty reference to it now but I forgot everything that happens.

Who /a/ here?

>>6258437
>reader of manga and Japanese light novels tipping a fedora at somebody else
hypocrisy thy name is anon

>>6258403

I'm not insecure, I'm doing it because it's fun to tell the truth to self-deceivers. Outside of your mittensy Pterrified worldview, virtue exists, discipline exists, seriousness exists. It's a duty and a pleasure to remind you of that.

>>6258414
Rincewind or Vetinari
No, Leonard of Quirm. He lives the comfiest life imaginable

RIP Terry. You were the best fantasy author.

I just found an essay I did on Vimes back in 2006.

It's rather short and the .doc has broken encoding in some places (I assume there used to be pictures). Also it has tons of typos and terrible mistakes, probably because English is my second language and I wrote it in the middle of the night back then.

However, it has some of the best Vimes bits in its appendix, at least the ones 17 year old me liked.

Anyone wanna have it?

CROSSBOARDERS GET OUT

GET THE FUCK OUT

GO BACK TO YOUR YA
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>6258428

lel

Oh well, he doesn't exist now, like the moral reasoning of his readers.

>>6258443
Here

>>6258444
Ok

>>6258434

What? He's for suburban porkers, it's not his place to judge his betters. Do grow up.

>>6258446
Are you psychotic?

>>6258456
>ukip
>anime
>manga
>weeaboo
how does it feel that the next government will be an SNP/Labour coalition with 319 seats to the Tory/LibDem/UKIP 310?

>>6258435

No, there was a dig. Terry's first book came out in the seventies, didn't it? GROW UP. Your hero was an anus.

>>6258443
Who would be Terry's waifu?

>>6258458
hahahahahahahaha
I'm sorry, are you a fucking knight? STFU

/fit/ pays respects

>>6258452
/tg/ here.

No.

>>6258061
>Wyrd Sisters
>Small Gods
>Reaper Man

>>6258458
>Do

>>6258461
Bad, because 5 years of labour will be a death knell for the UK.

>>6257826
>Known for his striking dress sense and large black fedora,
Topkek

>>6257875
He died in Venture Bros.

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER...

Fortuitously, as RAH noted, :Your status in Heaven is determined by how you treat cats here below," so he should be fine.

>>6258466

Oh wow, I can only assume you're American.

>>6257862
Taking a shit while checking my email.

Saddest shit of all time.

>>6257826
Fuck man, RIP

Then again, he was pretty far gone w the Alzheimer's anyway, about time to go I guess

Still, he wasn't THAT old. Did he even see wwii?

;_;

>>6258468
I actually like /tg/

>>6258467
hi /fit/