I was going to be snide about the new cover to UNSEEN ACADEMICALS, but a bunch of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels are something like a buck-ninety-nine on Kindle right now. That’s a ridiculously good deal, bad covers or not. It’s so good, I’m not even going to snicker about the unrelated thing that I was going to snicker about…
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I have a powerful urge to sit down and read me some JRR Tolkien and Terry Pratchett. No, I don’t know why I’m not doing that, right now. Maybe because I think I’d need to get some cocoa going, first, and it’s a bit late for that.
At any rate: Hogfather by Sir pTerry is excellent. But hopefully you knew that already. I just wish they’d stop saddling his books with such awful covers…
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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.
Moe Lane
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.
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