Aaaaww gees,

How horrible!

indeed.

I don't know why I always find it a lot more awful when this happens to writers.

Just woke up to this news.
Sickened.
Good Omens is my favourite book of each author and regularly reread.
Hope he has many full and active years ahead of him.
Don't really care if he is still putting out books, just that he can be active.

I know - I heard this on the news this morning and have had an internal commentary of "bloody buggering bloody bloody hell" ever since, with two warring feelings which can roughly be translated as:

"You have given me and millions of other people so much pleasure, now just take it easy and look after yourself"

(...and much more horribly selfishly)

"Nooooo! You can't get sick! You have to write more books!"

ETA: I'd put a colon and a bracket in a sentence above, and the wretched automated programme put a sodding smiley emoticon and I don't feel smiley about this one little bit. Arrrgh!

i imagine he is also of the vein "but i have so many other characters i need to write!"

Yeah, SP, I can so see that, too.

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Originally posted by silly doozer punk:
i imagine he is also of the vein "but i have so many other characters i need to write!"

Yeah...and I bet he has dozens of book ideas all planned out, and it must be horrible to realize he won't have time to write them all. Not to mention all the other things he probably still wants to do in life.

This just makes me so incredibly sad. He isn't even all that old. It's just crap

There really isn't any justice, is there?

I have to echo Neil here. And Granny Weatherwax. He aint't dead yet.

One of the guys at our church was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's about fifteen years ago. I wouldn't lend him a favourite book without making sure his wife knew I was doing it, but he gets by really well, on the whole.

I'm saddened by the news, no doubt, but buck up. There's more Discworld to be had out there and he needs support, not morning.

My two cents.

yes, there's lots of reasons for optimism. Pratchett's probably the sort of person who deals best with the sort thing, and there's been lot of scientific progress in this area recently (I know some PhDs who research in the area, strangely). But that does n't make it any less unfair and it has n't stopped me from extending best wishes and vibes on the offchance they help.

*follows Wayfarer's lead*

We're all about to die- most people love it, to only forget it is a fact. it only happens to other people, right (: hehe. to know exactly it might happen soon- well, it only makes every minute of your life more valuable- realizing its passing by.
It hurt to hear this bad news of one of the most important people for me, but, he's not dead yet, and I like the way he takes it, not saying well, sorry people I have some selfregret to do now.
and I'm sure his awareness of being ill now, will change the way he writes on a way, to make his books even more important to read...

I think he'll still be churning out books. I don't think he would want it any other way, and certainly not us, the fans, as well.

The day I heard, I couldn't focus on anything, I was surprised at how hard it hit me. It wasn't that I was expected the guy with the scythe to come for Pratchett anytime soon, but it was in the bigger sense. I thought of Cohen the Barbarian in The Last Hero. I thought of Victor Frankenstein. I wanted to shout at the stem cell research people, "Step on it! Fix him!" It was one of the reasons why I quit my job.

Life goes on. Except for the dead. Sometimes I'll overhear "Alzheimer's" and be reminded that I'm still stuck on Anger and Bargaining.

has anyone read making money yet? i got it for christmas. it's good, but there are a couple of things that weren't consistent with previous books, which grated a little. (i'm not going to specify and spoil it!)

i'm trying, unsuccessfully, not to get bogged down in the "oh my god he's got alzheimer's" thing. i really don't want to think about it

I've read Making Money a few times now. I read the new ones so fast I have to read it at least twice more to really get the whole storyline.

What wasn't consistent?

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Originally posted by fionchadd:
has anyone read making money yet? i got it for christmas. it's good, but there are a couple of things that weren't consistent with previous books, which grated a little. (i'm not going to specify and spoil it!)

i'm trying, unsuccessfully, not to get bogged down in the "oh my god he's got alzheimer's" thing. i really don't want to think about it

do you know how to do the white spoiler text - i'd love to hear your views.

just read it and didn't notice anything either, though i didn't reread going postal first.

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has anyone read making money yet? i got it for christmas. it's good, but there are a couple of things that weren't consistent with previous books, which grated a little.

I've noticed before a few things tend to change as needed from books to book, (one of the ones that stands out most to me is the near 180 in the personality of the Low-King from 5th Elephant compared to Thud, and also Vimes' attitude towards/relationship with him), so I pretty much look at it as the books are rule by the Rule of Necessity... whatever Terry needs certain cultures, people, circumstances to be at that time is what gets adopted.

On that note I picked up a couple of books I hadn't got to yet the other day because I had some gift cards to burn at Barnes and Noble. Both are Rincewind stories, (Sourcery and Interesting Times) which I generally avoid because he kinda annoys me and makes me want to shake him and say "Grow a freaking spine already!", but we'll see how it goes.