Terry Pratchett
posted by Neil Gaiman
I woke up and my email was all condolences from friends, and requests for statements from journalists, and I knew it had happened. I'd been warned.
Thirty years and a month ago, a beginning author met a young journalist in a Chinese Restaurant, and the two men became friends, and they wrote a book, and they managed to stay friends despite everything. Last night, the author died.
There was nobody like him. I was fortunate to have written a book with him, when we were younger, which taught me so much.
This was the last thing I wrote about Terry. I knew his death was coming and it made it no easier:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman
I'll miss you, Terry.
I'm not up to writing anything yet. Maybe one day.
Labels: Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, The End of an Era
I woke up and my email was all condolences from friends, and requests for statements from journalists, and I knew it had happened. I'd been warned.
Thirty years and a month ago, a beginning author met a young journalist in a Chinese Restaurant, and the two men became friends, and they wrote a book, and they managed to stay friends despite everything. Last night, the author died.
There was nobody like him. I was fortunate to have written a book with him, when we were younger, which taught me so much.
This was the last thing I wrote about Terry. I knew his death was coming and it made it no easier:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman
I'll miss you, Terry.
I'm not up to writing anything yet. Maybe one day.
Labels: Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, The End of an Era
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Mar 12, 2015 05:45PM
I think people would normally say "Oh, you poor thing!" "I'm so sorry." or "stay strong." or something like that. What I would like to say is, death is inevitable. Sounds like something some famous person, author, or game character said but so long as you remember this person, they will always be alive for memories can keep someone alive forever. It's a different kind of immortality.
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An artist never dies, they live forever in their work. He will be missed so much though :(
Good Omens is one of my favourite books. RIP Sir Pratchett, of Ankh Morpork.
My sister introduced me to the Disc World books many years ago now and I quickly grew fond of his quirky magical world as so many others did. I am sad for the lose. It leaves a strange hole in the fabric of space. My grandmother also passed from Alzheimer's, and it was not easy, it still is not easy. It is hard losing a friend even when you are expecting them to go. Though we can feel comfort that they are no longer suffering from the disease that took them too soon. But we can also be thankful that we were also able to know them, to love them, and to enjoy their company.
I loved Good Omens and Nation, unfortunately the only Terry Pratchett books I have ever read. I always meant to read Discworld but never got around to it. Tonight I ordered the first book in the series for my Nook andI plan to finish it during my vacation this week.
I'm sorry for your loss of a friend. I am also sorry to those who loved him. Also, to that of the literary world; he was a great author and brought a lot of joy and laughs to people he never met.
I am sorry for your loss. I've been crying when I have heard about Terry's Prarchett death in the radio. I was counting on meeting him one day and now it is too late... You were fortunate to meet him in person and to be his friend.
His loss is so unfortunate, and I am sorry that it touched you much more closely. My thoughts are with you and his friends and family. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death. ~Leonardo da Vinci
I too am saddened by Terry Pratchett's passing. Fortunately for all of us still living, his words and works will always be with us. My mother left this world because of Alzheimer's...I know the pain.
Beautiful article for the Guardian - I had no idea who Terry Pratchett really was behind the jolly face and black hat. Thank you for sharing.
