It is, after all, the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May.
All the little angels rise up, rise up.
All the little angels rise up high!
How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
How do they rise up, rise up high?
They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!
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Or, you know, any other Terry Pratchett novel. But The Fifth Elephant will do as something on which to hang your head. Unless, of course, you’ve never actually read the man. In that case I recommend that you start at… huh. That’s a tough one. I got started with Wyrd Sisters, and that’s as good a place as any?
I’m not even mad at Hollywood. It’s like being mad at a dingo for being a dingo. This is what Hollywood is. Let’s all just be grateful that Terry Pratchett didn’t need the money enough.
Reportedly the author’s first — and possibly future-defining — brush with Hollywood studios came following talk of his fourth Discworld book, 1987’s Mort (which centered on his character Death) being picked up for adaptation. Allegedly, after research from focus groups, he was asked to “lose the Death angle.”
(That’s an old article, btw. Also, via Collider.)
My wife got me Terry Pratchett’s A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories for Christmas, and I’m finally getting around to it. They’re stories from his earliest years, so I’ll have to remind myself that I shouldn’t expect A+++++ work. A++ will simply have to do.
Although Hogfather is more of a TV two-parter. Nonetheless, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Christmas story is fun to see on the small screen. I may watch it tomorrow, once the presents are wrapped.
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This sounds like marvelous news. Admittedly, the miniseries that the BBC is doing of The Watch sounds like it might start riots when it comes out, but that deal was made a few years before this one and GOOD OMENS was awesome. More of the latter, please.
As I said on Twitter: this story will break your heart, but in the good way.
Continue reading This article on Terry Pratchett and Vilja made me download Oblivion again.I’m in the middle of going through Late Pratchett — I assume because of Good Omens, and everything — and Raising Steam was on the rotation. It squared away a lot of characters whom I’m quite fond of; squared them away and had them doing well for themselves. …That’ll do.
Why Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch? Because it is the Glorious 25th of May. And in memory of the man, here is a link to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.
