Sir Terry Pratchett 1948-2015

[jjpor]

After hearing the sad but, I think, not wholly unexpected news earlier this evening, I don't have a lot to say about it that others haven't said more eloquently elsewhere. I have been reading and re-reading (and re-reading) his books for at least the past twenty-five years and I'm pretty much certain that my tastes in literature and indeed my

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[idlewild_]

When we were super poor young adults buying cheap things that wore out because that's what we could buy, we used to mutter under our breath about the Vimes Boot Theory of Economic Injustice. Pratchett had a neat way of succinctly summing up generally invisible truths. I will miss that greatly.

[a_phoenixdragon]

I'm only just getting to know his works, too. Looks like he was not only a great author, but a great man as well. He shall be sorely missed...

*HUGS*

[persiflage_1]

*bighugs*

The world is a poorer place this month for having lost both Sir Terry and Leonard Nimoy.

[lost_spook]

Indeed. :-/

[clocketpatch]

The world is a poorer place, because he is gone.

But the world is also a better place, because he was here.