Comments | matgb: For services to literature, humour and pen makers

matgb

For services to literature, humour and pen makers

Apr 02, 2007 22:05

Go. Sign. Now.:We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to recommend Terry Pratchet for a Knighthood for his services to literature.
Now damnit!

sir terry pratchett, petitions

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matgb April 2 2007, 21:27:24 UTC

Heh, it's an incestuous thing, links get shared all over. Besides, it's a good link.

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matgb April 2 2007, 21:34:56 UTC

Aye; I was looking for a Hannibal 'plan comes together' icon, but the only icons comm I found for the A-Team only had stuff by this girl worth taking, and she has a thing for Dirk. But her stuff is soo good, very subtle animations, eye catching stuff. I just uploaded the ones I liked most and could use.

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foxfirefey April 2 2007, 21:17:56 UTC

Yessssss.

matgb April 2 2007, 21:29:41 UTC

Precisely. It might even happen as well.

foxfirefey April 2 2007, 21:30:28 UTC

Terry Pratchett has given me far more pleasure than, say, Bill Gates ever did.

matgb April 2 2007, 21:37:15 UTC

Has Gates really given you any pleasure at all? Apart from mocking, of course. But yeah, luvs the pTerry; am currently re-reading Colour, ages since I read the first one.

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two_brains April 2 2007, 23:33:26 UTC

absolutely...

but TP himself denies any link to LITERATURE... Great stories, wonderful biting satire, fabulous take offs of the real world... but possibly not literature?

matgb April 2 2007, 23:36:39 UTC

He denies many things, but books is books, they get classed as literature in the broad sense, even if they're not literary fiction.

He can be weird at times. Undoubtedly why we like him...

ninebelow April 3 2007, 09:22:36 UTC

I think the view is that he is guilty of literature regardless of what he thinks.

Besides Barbara Cartland got a Damehood for services to literature so...

two_brains April 3 2007, 09:41:36 UTC

well put!

As a teacher, I really ought to know what exactly constitutes "literature" as oposed to just "a book"...

Any offerings?

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matgb April 3 2007, 20:48:42 UTC

Fair enough, it's not for everyone, life would be a boring place if we were all the same.

OTOH, I might try to lend you Wintersmith at some point, the basic plot is that a teenage girl messed up the Morris dance and causes no end of trouble because of it. It's aimed at young teens unlike most his stuff, which is aimed at adults, but it's a very good book.

I love the parody; the main city is London, and there's a fairly close parallel to a lot of things in undercurrents, especially in the more recent stuff.

doccy April 3 2007, 12:28:24 UTC

Speaking as someone that reads Pratchett to his wife (almost) ever night before falling asleep... I agree entirely! :D

matgb April 3 2007, 20:49:50 UTC

See, as things to do in bed before going to sleep, that rates fairly low on my list of priorities, but then, I'm not married so I wouldn't know...

doccy April 3 2007, 21:04:01 UTC

YOU'RE NOT MARRIED??? *gasps* Surely all people above the age of 19 are either married or clinically insane, as defined by the appropriate Act of 1802...

;)

It's a good read as a last-thing-at-night-just-to-calm-down thing. And I enjoy doing the voices.

:D

matgb April 3 2007, 21:11:25 UTC

YOU'RE NOT MARRIED??

Nope. I'd say I'm working on it, but it'd be presumptuous, we've only really just met.

And the latter makes a bit of sense, in a weird way. Freak ;-)

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