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I've said many times that Terry Pratchett was foundational for me 1/?
I've said many times that Terry Pratchett was foundational for me 1/?
I discovered him when the Discworld video games came out, at around the same time that the books in Pocket SF (the silvers covers with the detachable cardboard cover art inside!) showed up at my local bookshop. It was a French translation, but I DEVOURED it 2/?
They were not being released fast enough for me, so after Wyrd Sisters I switched to English (I basically taught myself to read English so I could read Ursula K Le Guin, Terry Pratchett and Elizabeth Peters). I'd ask relatives to bring me books 3/?
Okay, look, this is why I am so upset by #TheWatch adaptation. I think I read my first #Discworld book a couple of decades ago, as a young teenager. I'd never read anything like it in my life. After that I went to the library every week & meticulously hunted for them, over years.
It took me five years from discovering #Discworld to catch up with them. I remember going to a little Worcestershire bookshop and buying a copy of Wintersmith and Terry Pratchett signed it for me and I just - I didn't know what to say to him! I was in awe!
The #Discworld books gave me a grounding in empathy and the complexity of human nature in a way no other book has. When I call Terry Pratchett a philosopher, I am not joking. I am being entirely sincere, because he was one of the brightest minds I've ever come across.
