Kushim - is a scribe on some transactions of Barley from Uruk from around 3200 BCE .... his name is still said ... May the name Terry Pratchett still be said in 5200 years time ...
When my red-haired librarian sister introduced me to Pratchett she saved me from a deep, clinical depression and helped my children become amazingly literate. I read the series regularly.
Good for you. Everybody needs something to help them through life and the Pratchett books are a pretty good one. Good luck to you, your children and your future.
Yeah I was on the edge of crying all the time when I read his latest book, with the little witch, and the bees, and the things he wanted to perpetuate, god this comment is hard to write, I must not think about it to finish it, R.I.P.
Years and years ago, this movie was playing on the channel I always used to watch as a kid. Having nothing else to do, I decided to watch it, and I fell in love; I kept the recording of it on the TV and rewatched it occasionally. About two years ago, the name “Terry Pratchett” showed up again when I watched “Good Omens”; I decided to buy one of his books-it was “The Colour Of Magic”. I didn’t read it immediately, because I found the writing a bit too hard as a non-native speaker, but my progress in English allowed me to read it soon after. I have since read the first 11 Discworld books, plus “Going Postal”, as it was my introduction to this world. I am completely in LOVE with Pratchett’s writing, his world has brought me so much joy. Sometimes I wish I could forget all about it, just so I could discover it anew; but the feeling of knowing Discworld and its inside jokes, if you will, also makes me feel warm inside. It will forever break my heart that, by the time I decided to start reading the Discworld series, he was already long gone. But he will live on in all of our memories, and in his brilliant books, and I like to think that he got taken away by his Discworld Death, because that makes it less sad. I hope Death took good care of him-no, I know he did. RIP, Terry Pratchett, we all love you so, so much.
Eleven books means you already know they are good, and you have met my all-time favourite watch commander, but the best is yet to come. O how I envy you.
Pratchett's books have the curious characteristic of being eminently readable over and over again - You just need to allow them to stand fallow for a few years and you're good to go all over again. I suspect its not because of the story line itself but the characterisations and the thousand little covert jokes & puns. To be able to get that in a language which is not your native tongue is an immense achievement Tam.
@@Farweasel thanks :) I know I missed a few jokes here and there, and it took a while to get into the right rhythm for his humour and writing in general, but I am quite proud of the level of understanding that I have of his books. Can’t wait to revisit them in the future and catch on to even more of the jokes he sprinkled across Discworld!
if you *mean* something to someone... if you help someone... or loved someone... if even a single person remembers you... then maybe you never really die at all. he will live forever
Before any of the movies came to be, I fell in love with the Discworld novels. While I found the movie presentations very enjoyable, there is so much more to be found in the pages which do not make it to the screen. Hands down, Sir Terry Pratchett is my most beloved author. I was devastated with his passing.
When I read Granny Weatherwax's passing in The Shepards Crown I cried because it was like Terry Pratchett was telling us that even though he was going it would all be ok.
I was first introduced to the Discworld series through the movie, "The colour of magic" my dad rented it at a blockbuster or something and I remember thinking it was going suck because he always got the cheesiest straight to video movies. But I turned out to be the best movies I ever seen. Years later I found out there was a book and I immediately bought it so I'm torn on what I prefer I'm pretty sure I like the book more though.
Scott Burton I do not emorionally care about him, but it is a great loss that his books and creative criticism is at an end. Him and douglas addams has taught me to not take life to seriously, and that is of life saving importance to me. So while I am not devestated, I do owe him a ”thank you” for his work.
have all the discworld books, i liked his joking with our world the wizards= politicians, the witches=psychologist ens. and i really enjoyed Nightwatch i could see all the charters that works with me in the police
Rebecca Pucci I completed an conversion course in Computer Science since I last read the book. Hence I only now realise that GNU in the real world is a Unix system. (I'd forgotten about the reference in Going Postal).
I got a copy of the Unadulterated Cat as a gift, it was so hard to find I had already given up. No idea where it came from. Not his best, obviously, but good for a chuckle. Try Amazon?
VU IBG thanks most of the big book sellers I've tried have never herd of it. I am still missing I thinks the mc feegale books. Just started watching the live action shows they did. Did they ever make any of the Rinsewind ones or Conn barbarism? 😃 the ones with both of them always makes me smile.
@@FrozenHawkHunter unfortunately sky1 only did the 3 of them. The Hogfather, Going Postal and The Colour of Magic (which is The Light Fantastic too). However Prime is bringing out their version of Good Omens this year so I'm looking forward to that. When I was younger BBC did episodes of Johnny and the bomb, which is not a Discworld series but still good. The Nac Mac Feegles or Wee Free men are excellent. You can find them mostly in the Tiffany Aching series due to her being their wee big kelda.
It's actually a common style. Many authors are as we call "stream of consciousness" then go back and clean up what they made and it goes out from there.
@@whiterabbit75 How many did you get published? Most authors plan even when they don't create an outline. Its part of writing talent that the process happens in their head.
@@morlanius Never published. Would like to someday, though. I plan, in that I have an idea of where the story will be going, but like I said earlier, I've only outlinded once. Having an idea of the ending and outlining are two different things.
@@whiterabbit75 Well, there is a good book, a little cheesy in places and I'm not a fan of the authors writing style (just my opinion but a bit too much pitching) but worth a read. Story Engineering by Larry Brooks. Its focused on making your stories coherent and publishable. Good luck :)
I just re-read "Nightwatch" for the umpteenth time and was looking for people singing "All the little angels" and this showed up. I was already a bit on the squishy side, emotionally. Sir Terry's voice firmly pushed me over the edge. Damn what a loss to the world his passing was.
@@Tarantio1983 He voiced Death in the animation of Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music as well as the Color of Magic film. Now there's a man who was born for a role.
@@GahMehGrrrr I thought he sounded a bit too much like Eddie Izzard impersonating Sean Connery (yes, I know, I'm weird). Casting Charles Dance was a stroke of genius.
I had to come and watch this after watching the trailer for “The Watch” just so I could remember that there are people who can to a faithful adaptation of Disk World.
Its always a bitter sweet thing seeing Terry Pratchett when he was well and speaking on the work he loved being put on screen. I'll always treasure my signed copies of my favourite books. (Masquerade and Hogfather.)
An avid reader from an early age,Terry Pratchett took me to a new place in terms of reading. The books became my friends. Not only did Terry die too early, but all his characters died with him. I will never know what happened to little Sam, nor Tiffany. It took me so many years to recover the wish to read again. As with so many of you, I still miss him. Perhaps one of the 'small gods' took him and he's still writing, surely the God of books will look favourably on this great man.
Indeed, the sense of loss was and still is immense, but as Sir Terry said, "words have power" so part of me imagines that the essence of Sam Vimes, Tiffany Aching, and all the others still exist somewhere in the ether. The characters are alive in our heads but there's no-one to tell their stories any more, and _that_ is what we grieve for. Those we knew and loved in the Discworld books were not lost forever, like the characters from Blackadder in that overwhelming final scene, they simply lost their voice.
Honestly, I loved 'Going Postal' but to me I feel like his last 10-15 or so books would be best described as "the New Discworld series" which were far more about development, technology, politics and civilisation than the original books, which were a purely utterly nonsensical, fantastical, unrestricted and completely untamed great and open world. The series shifted from beautifully phantasmically imaginatively illogical, to inspirational, vivid, well written and charactered logical modern fantasy.
I love Discworld, BUT I feel the Moist von Ludwig books have a huge drawback that is only magnified in the movies. And that is Moist von Ludwig himself. I feel he is by far the least interesting, least likeable main character TP has played with. He has a very interesting concept, and the Going Postal story is an interesting one, but I feel his stories are enjoyable despite him, not because of him. Susan & Death, the Watch, the Witches, Tiffany, even Rincewind; They all contribute to the enjoyment I feel with their stories in a way that Moist von Ludwig just never matches.
Its arguable, finely balanced, far from clear cut but sod it ........ I'm going out on a limb and asserting the *most* *endearing* *character* is the *Librarian* Unless its Death........ Or just maybe Gytha Ogg.
My dad is a great fan of Sir Pratchett to the point that wherever you were in our house, you'd be sure to find one of his books, half read, waiting to be finished for the Xth time. One morning, maybe 12 years ago, on the first day of summer vacation i saw Going Postal lying on the kitchen table and out of curiosity i flipped it open. My dad was reading them all the time, so they had to be good, right? By the end of the same year i had read every Discworld novel that was out to this point.
He was so, so smart, and he didn't make it obvious, other than through a twinkle in the eye and a well turned phrase off the cuff. I miss him so much. I didn't want him to write more. I just wanted him to be here to see how much FUN he generated.
Everybody's brilliant in this. loved the fan part - see other making of videos. but i wonder everyone missed the best about filming in Budapest; some of the city playing part of Ankh-Morkpork, as it were. not all was props what seen in film. it is a twin city - twin cities - on river Danube, Buda on one bank and Pest on another. merged only recently in history. comparatively. like Ankh and Morpork on river Ankh. :D
Yep.... I would go with that. I've read all the books many times but the ones I come back to most are The Watch series. I think Vimes is the most developed character in the books and the supporting cast are brilliant. Nobby, Colon and Leonard of Quirm in the "Submarine" with Vetinari, in Jingo, was hysterical. Every one of those books is a gem and Snuff is a touching piece of magic.
This was the first Discworld novel I ever read after buying it in Gatwick airport on the way to Italy many years ago and it got me reading all of his books. Pratchett was nothing short of a comedic and literary genius for bringing a strange, foreign, other-worldy universe to life whilst making it feel exactly like home. Especially if you're from England. The accents come through as clear as bell, the way it's all written and even without the amazing cover art of the books, it's always been so easy to visualise each character. We'll not get another Sir Terry Pratchett but we will get authors who stand on the shoulders of this giant. And I can't flippin' wait to read what they bring to the table!
Terry was brilliant.He will be missed.I love his books and i hope his books will turn into movies and make his books even more popular then they already are.Thank you Terry.R.I.P 😊
_"I love the clacks, because they look like they could work."_ Only one reason for that. Ok, 2; The movie's director clearly could read. When they made Sir Terry, the broke the mold... And no one will ever forgive the maker for losing the model. :'(
The funny thing is that there actually were mechanical/optical telegraphs, usually using flags or brightly painted arms... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy#Optical_telegraph
Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Anyone I ever knew and loved, anyone I would like to know are down there, if it really existed of course.
Oh my, I was today days old when I found out, through a random youtube recommendation, that my favourite book from Pratchett - which might well mean my favourite book of all time - has a film adaption made out of it. Now I just need to find it.
No matter what else I am reading, I always have a discworld book on the go. Just started reading “Only you can save mankind “ to my son at bedtime, of all the things I hope for him, I hope he becomes a Pratchetter.
I have 3 characters from Sir Terry that I love...and Moist Von Lipwig is one of mine....I reread (and listen to the audiobooks) of Sam Vimes, Moist, and the Witches....consistently. And as for Richard Coyle...he will forever be Moist Von Lipwig....perfect actor to play the part in the Sky production of "Going Postal"
You should never compare a movie to a book, but I never got over how the movie presents Richer Guilt as an incompetent bumbling buffoon (with no Igor) rather than a highly intelligent and ruthless master criminal.
it's the scene where he goes mad and beats Horsefry to death with a poker rather than carefully making sure Horsefry got home safe... before sending his personal killer after him that really put me off this adaptation. I mean it still had enjoyable moments because it is Pratchett after all, but a hero's only as good as his villain and to completely reverse who the villain is really stuck in my craw.
Night Watch is my favourite Discworld book, but they'd have to do the other Watch books first, and... Horribly miscast David Jason as... I don't know, Nobby or something.
@@justsomeotherguy5743 wasn't that one of the running gags of the Watch? when ever some one complained that the watch didn't care about the plight of, klatchnians, dwarves, trolls, the undead, they were offered a job... the complaints didn't stopp, and often got worse saying that they new hire disregarded the plight even more dispite being one of them. in the end they had whole squads of dwarves, a small army of trolls, an igor, gargoyles, an orangutan, a golem, werewolf, vampire and even a Nobby Nobbs
Robertson Thirdly by making Sybil a thin young black woman, making Angua Carrots superior, making Vetinari, Downey, Lupine Wonse(now a wannabe wizard) and Dibbler(now a criminal overlord) into women. Changing Cheery from a female dwarf into being nonbinary(not necessarily that much of a issue, but considering everything else, it will be done poorly). Bottom line, lots of changes for the sake of making the show look “woke”. Which considering the sheer amount of social justice issues PTerry masterfully tackled is fucking ridiculous.
@@Waffletimewarp I read that also, I'm not going to watch (pun intended) this travesty of some of the most beloved characters in fantasy being destroyed for the sake of the BBC woke diversity nonsense.....its a travesty.
Here I am, nine years after this video was posted, Sir Terry is gone, and I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE GOING POSTAL MINISERIES EXISTED! Can't watch the rest of this video, I have to go find Going Postal and watch it rightaway!
Here's me, 5 years after you posted that comment, and I flipped on the Apple TV mid-video to see if it was streaming anywhere. (It is, and I'll be watching it over dinner tonight.)
It is already six years since Terry died at a much too young age. I've never been much of a reader, but I am an gamer from the 90's onwards and I did play Discworld religiously. It saddens me that I never got a chance to shake his hand, to just exchange a word of greeting. Though he was more or less a humanist/atheist, I do like to believe that if there is a Heaven, he is awarded with a comfy spot right there to bicker and laugh with Death. A good man that spread so much joy through his works deserves that much at least.
Going Postal is my favorite disc world novel, with Making Money and The Truth up there with it. I guess I really like the stories where he introduces a totally new concept to his world, like newspapers and bank notes
Going Postal is one of my favorite books from the Discworld series, and this movie is one of my favorite too (I know, the movie its not exactly like the book, but this happens :P, but for me its still a great movie and I had lots of fun watching, and Charles Dance is awesome) :D
Terry Pratchett what a genius! So sorely missed have read all of his disc world books and now reading his diggers and carpet people series to my kids. I echo the earlier comments hopefully Binky had some sugar lumps and I'm sure you and Death had an interesting conversation on the journey to the next world.
We always watch Hogfather as a Christmas tradition. 4 days from Christmas eve I find out about this movie. *face palm* >.< ...Does Amazon do extra speedy deliveries? The book was really good, I honestly don't think there is a book I don't actually like. I mean, I have my favorites, but he writes such cleaver, witty, imaginative stories!! Honestly, I was relieved after reading the first book lol I finally found something I *really* enjoyed reading.
I loved the Discworld series, read them all, snd I cannot comprehend how a movie could be made of any of them. How does all the clever innuendo and social commentary come through without the text?
I truly miss him as such a caring, funny and absolutely intelligent author and person🙏 Bless him. Wee free men are all around me, my beer is gone and I could have sworn there was some cheddar in my fridge.. And by the way, I live in Germany.... And.. Oh darn, I miss England. Used to live in Shropshire. Interesting times.. 😂
What Terry was saying about troll underarm products, ironically he also refers to this in the book Unseen Academicals, Glenda actually sells those products to the trolls to supplement her income.
