Terry Pratchett Quote Bot‘We fight to the death,’ he said. ‘Yours.’
(The Colour of Magic)
“He said he liked my singing too. Everyone else said it sounded like a flock of vultures who’ve just found a dead donkey.”
(Pyramids)?
…there are some people who are destined to be carried to comfortable couches and some people whose only fate is fetching a bowl of cold water. (Maskerade)
‘Fine Art. It’s just men paintin’ pictures of young wimmin in the nudd. The altogether,’ explained Colon the connoisseur. ‘The caretaker told me. Some of them don’t even have any paint on their brushes, you know.’
(Guards Guards)
‘He’s had a near-death experience!’
‘We all have. It’s called “living”,’ said the Archchancellor shortly.
(Hogfather)
RobReaper Man by Terry Pratchett
Pratchett once again delivers a really poignant and important message amongst the chaos and hilarity of Discworld. It's almost top tier stuff, but the chaotic side plot felt like a tacked on element, rather than seemingly a natural part of the story.
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D. G. Marshall1) Blurb says sex and drugs are NOT in this book. "A.I." hallucinates that the book is chock full of sex and drugs.
2) The 16 year old's Grandfather is the anthropomorphic personification of Death. Death is a psychologically distressing theme.* Therefore, it must not be mentioned in any book teenagers have access to.
3) Main character has difficult childhood. This is not the same thing as abuse.
*Not the way Terry Pratchett writes Death.
He had the look of someone who could think his way through a corkscrew without bending…
(Sourcery)
Zivan - Childless Cat GuyI've just finished a reread of Jingo by Terry Pratchett
First of all this is one instance where I enjoyed the new audio edition.
But most of all I'm so sorry we don't have Vimes to come and arrest the leaders of this war and Vetinarri to bamboozle everyone into a diplomatic solution.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6e230660-0fb7-454f-a7b3-199ad0d4044f
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'.... there's big crimes and little crimes. Sometimes the little crimes look big and the big crimes you can hardly see, but the crucial thing is to decide which is which.' (Men at Arms)