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What is your favorite book of his?

Oh no! :( I have only read Good Omens that he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman but I loved it. This is sad.

Found out about this on Twitter earlier. Sad news. :(

I've read some of the Discworld novels, and I loved those. Sent all the copies I had to a friend some time ago, and I've been meaning to get them all in ebook format. I really want to re-read them, and catch up on the ones I haven't read yet.

Oh man his final tweets though. ;_;

His other books are amazing as well. The Discworld series has beautiful stuff, for instance.

YOu could also try the audiobooks. The narrator is spot-on.

I'm still going 'please, no...' I've read most of his books and his Discworld novels are my favourites. Hard to believe that someone who could make his worlds come alive is gone.

I cried when I found out. 'Hogfather' meant so much to me as a humanist.

Came here to post about this. I was doing okay with it until I saw the tweets his assistant Rob Wilkins posted up:

"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."

;_;

I'm just so sad. What an amazing mind, what a great loss.

My favorite books of his are Jingo, Small Gods, the Colour of Magic books and the ones about the Wee Free Men. We've lost such a treasure.

His books make you think. Really, really think. And that is something very rare.

I think the ones that hit that the most were Vimes and the witches.

Vimes had a very human dimension as a copper; he wasn't perfect and sometimes he covered up for things or let a minor situation get past him, but he seethed at the injustices done not just by people to others but to themselves. From the place he observed in people's brains that they have marked off for kings, to his own intolerances against dwarves and trolls and vampires and everyone else that he nonetheless made a part of the Watch, Commander Samuel Vimes speaks especially to older readers who watch the world dragged into our own 'Century of the Fruitbat' around us.

The witches, on the other hand, ranged from Granny Weatherwax's practical and humanistic 'headology' to Agnes Nitt's rebellion against the common narrative of what girls are 'supposed to be' (and the pain she felt and conquered along the way, the end of 'Maskerade' is a gut punch). Terry Pratchett embodied Granny Weatherwax's struggle to do the right thing in fantastical enough terms to make it a matter of thinking and contemplation, why and more importantly how we do what we do.

The Watch stories are easily my favourites. All of Pratchett's characters can speak to people, they are human- even when they aren't. They can be heroes without being heroic. They can be villains and you can still understand them, maybe not sympathise, but still understandable and completely human. Every single character stands out, in some way or the other. I don't know of any other author (other than the late Douglas Adams) who can make a concept completely understandable and utterly confusing at the same time.

I can't begin to list the Discworld books that have meant so much to me over the years, or how important bits and pieces of his philosophy got absorbed into my soul via osmosis through the eyes, I'll just post the direct quote from Hogfather that strikes me like lightning every damn time I read it.

Thank you, Sir Terry. You will be sorely missed.

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Love all his books, he will be sorely missed :( Named one of my pets here after a common exclamation used in The Wee Free Men, lol.

I love Night Watch.

This one hurts. You want to talk about someone who's books I devoured, it was PTerry.

The tweets announcing it could not have been more perfect.

"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things." - Jingo

I feel very sad about his death. I can't say if I have a favorite book, I love all the stories, from the Nights Watch, Cohen, The Wee Free Men, the Wizards to the Witches... they all are unique and special.

I have this quote from him as my skype status for years, which is so true:

"Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom."

Death from Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather (2006)