One gets the feeling, with #Terry, that the real sticking point was that "the company would not promise not to do it again", but if they'd apologised and made that promise. Well, Terry would have probably quietly admired their chutzpah. The adverts would have had to stop, been apologised for, but he'd have probably let them keep the licence to print the books. Or maybe not. You never could tell with Terry.
Ok, inspired by @rincewind.run and @ursulav over on bsky (I don't know Micah's handle here?), here are 10 US Kindle copies of Terry Pratchett's REAPER MAN. Which I have, and have read, and love. As always with pterry, I'm going to babble a bit, because the world is so much worse for his loss.
pterry was a genius. He understood humanity, deeply and thoroughly. And he could convey that in writing. That's double-genius, or at least 1.5.
Je viens de finir la biographie de Terry Pratchett.
J'appréhendais la fin, forcément, mais ça s'est bien passé. J'étais triste en lisant l'histoire de ses dernières années de vie, et admiratif de son courage et de celui de ses proches.
Puis j'ai atteint la page 440, et j'ai sangloté jusqu'à la fin.
Announcing the theme for Terry Pratchett Day 2024: START IN THE WRONG PLACE.
"Don't start in the right place!" they often say of #TerryPratchett's work. So, let's truly embrace the joy and chaos to be found in the many routes through #Discworld and beyond.
“There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that’
‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”