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This is an interview with Terry Pratchett, entitled Sod the Booker (sorry Webbo, but if the Sunday Times can use it in a title, it can't be offensive!!!)
I haven't read any of his stuff, but I really enjoyed the interview, not in depth stuff, but the tape recorder malfunctions that seem to occur when he's interviewed is slightly amusing.
Thanks for that Carol. I quite liked it. Mostly what I imagined he would be like. Was a bit surprised by the Rowling/Potter link. Apart from sharing some of the characteristics of fantasy novels, I can't quite see where the Potter books copy off the Discworld novels.
That escaped me too MDD. I assumed he meant that that the way it was done, subject etc.
I've heard one of his books serialised on book at bedtime- last year. Sounded fun, but I don't think it would keep my attention long enough to finish.
I like Terry Pratchett because he wears a big floppy hat and has a daughter called Rhianna (so have I (daughter, not the hat)). He is also a very keen astronomer and has his own mini-observatory in his garden! So there.
His Discworld novels get very repetitive though, and he tries a bit too hard to be funny sometimes. However, if you want to read just one, try 'Reaper Man' in which Death decides to take a holiday.
His very first novel, 'The Carpet People' about the tiny tribes that live in the rug, is brilliant.
My favourite will always be "Wierd Sisters" the bit where Nanny Ogg's cat eats Dracula in his bat form them commnts "just coz its got wings its still a mouse" How like a cat!
I love all his books, including the Tiffany Aching stories for children. My favourites, though, are the ones about the witches, especially 'Equal Rites'.
I think Terry P is brilliant, a very clever and knowledgeable writer.
I've met him a couple of times, the last time completely unrelated to writing - a Steeleye Span gig in Salisbury. I was asking to speak to the fiddle player Peter Knight, and his other half said he was talking to a writer he admired, so me being me I said, 'Which writer?' When she told me, I scanned the foyer, and there he was - the hat is unmistakeable :o) He was very nice to me both times I met him, and I have a lot of respect for him.
I have to agree, TaffetaPunk, that he is a very nice man. I'm a great fan of his books and we re-read them for sheer pleasure. We have a house rule that we can't laugh out loud when we read a Pratchett book - or say 'Oh, listen to this bit' - as it is just too annoying. My son bought one of his books last year for my husband's birthday and got it signed in a Glasgow bookshop. At the time my husband had a bad back and Terry Pratchett signed the book with a comment hoping that his back would soon improve, and even suggested his own chiropractor (apparently he suffers from back problems too). My favourite is 'Reaper Man' too, Death is a wonderful character.
I was looking forward to seeing the Pratchett film on the TV recently and then discovered that it was on one of the Sky channels which I don't have with my Freeview Box. Grrrr!
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This is an interview with Terry Pratchett, entitled Sod the Booker (sorry Webbo, but if the Sunday Times can use it in a title, it can't be offensive!!!)
I haven't read any of his stuff, but I really enjoyed the interview, not in depth stuff, but the tape recorder malfunctions that seem to occur when he's interviewed is slightly amusing.
I've heard one of his books serialised on book at bedtime- last year. Sounded fun, but I don't think it would keep my attention long enough to finish.
His Discworld novels get very repetitive though, and he tries a bit too hard to be funny sometimes. However, if you want to read just one, try 'Reaper Man' in which Death decides to take a holiday.
His very first novel, 'The Carpet People' about the tiny tribes that live in the rug, is brilliant.
I've met him a couple of times, the last time completely unrelated to writing - a Steeleye Span gig in Salisbury. I was asking to speak to the fiddle player Peter Knight, and his other half said he was talking to a writer he admired, so me being me I said, 'Which writer?' When she told me, I scanned the foyer, and there he was - the hat is unmistakeable :o) He was very nice to me both times I met him, and I have a lot of respect for him.