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#10790615 Mar 12, 2015 at 04:59 PM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

One of the funniest, most talented and profound authors I've ever read. I once had the privilege to sit next to him and I was star struck.

Some of his quotes/writing:

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
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#10790810 Mar 12, 2015 at 05:42 PM
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"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."



Oh my god that's brilliant! :D ... I have no idea who this man is, but I can already say I would most likely have liked him :D
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#10791172 Mar 12, 2015 at 07:07 PM
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He's the guy that made me become a hardcore reader. Someone gave me one of his books and 3 weeks later I'd read that one and 5 more. Since then I've read everything he wrote. He had a.... unique way of looking at the world, always seeming to come at things from a different angle. Some more quotes to demonstrate that:

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way
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#10791953 Mar 12, 2015 at 10:21 PM
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Those quotes are awesome. I just donated books, including some by Pratchett, to charity. Too bad, now feel like reading them again...

/Z
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#10794466 Mar 13, 2015 at 02:46 PM
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What book would you recommend starting at for someone that haven't ready any of his work, Hog? He sounds like an amazing writer, but my scope has unfortunately been kinda small. I appear to have missed him.
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#10795450 Mar 13, 2015 at 07:11 PM
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I would simply start at the beginning and read everything!

The first book is called The Colour of Magic and is wonderful. It introduces Discworld which is a flat world floating through space on the back of 4 cosmic sized elephants who each walk around on the back of a giant turtle. Sounds crazy enough for you? It follows a hapless, incompetent young wizard called Rincewind who just wants to live a peaceful life but is thrust into "interesting" adventures.

The fourth book, Mort, is probably my favourite though as it's centred about the main character Death. Yes, the guy with the scythe who's job it is to collect the recently departed and any sequences featuring him are brilliant. Who doesn't like the idea of a seven-foot-tall skeleton in a black robe who sits astride a pale horse (called Binky)?
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#10797690 Mar 14, 2015 at 11:24 AM
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Haha that sounds brilliant ... Maybe I should check to local library. Did he write long books? I read the Hobbit loads of times, but books like Harry Potter, LoTR etc I can never finish.. I always lose interest :P
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