If I hadn't read the novels first, I doubt I'd have been able to follow what was going on. It didn't LOOK funny, if that makes any sense whatsoever.Īlso, the text-to-graphic-novel adaptation wasn't extremely successful. The Discworld seems so Legoish - I was expecting bold colors, bright designs, something cartoonish to go with the jubilant humor. The only problem is, it didn't really match up with what I'd had in my head. I spent so much time mentally visualizing things while reading the books - the elephants that stand on the giant turtle, the chest with hundreds of little feet, the giant tower where the final showdown takes place - I was really keen on seeing someone else draw it all out for me. When I saw this on the library shelf, I thought it would be the perfect supplement to the first two Discworld novels. Sir Terry Pratchett passed away on 12th March 2015. He was awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2010.

On 18 Feb, 2009, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

of 2007, Pratchett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Warwick in 1999, the University of Portsmouth in 2001, the University of Bath in 2003, the University of Bristol in 2004, Buckinghamshire New University in 2008, the University of Dublin in 2008, Bradford University in 2009, the University of Winchester in 2009, and The Open University in 2013 for his contribution to Public Service. In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006). There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter.

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