Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

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It’s all illuminating, and I appreciated that Rob didn’t try to sugarcoat or hide Terry’s more disagreeable personality traits, such as his irascibility and ingratitude, but there were also many sweet, and even more funny passages. His wit, indeed sparkling as it was, and his intelligence was plain to see from what he had written, up until the very (rather bitter) end. Aged nine or 10, his daughter Rhianna drew a picture of a hat and wrote underneath it: “I love my father but he is very busy.

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Transworld managing director Larry Finlay says: ‘ A Life with Footnotes captures the genius that was Terry Pratchett, with warmth, poignancy, and great good humour – and with no small amount of love. Rob Wilkins’ biography of Terry Pratchett is an extraordinary view into this writing god’s life, but first a caveat.In 1987, having finally taken the plunge and left the CEGB for Gaze Cottage in Somerset and “the cold waters of self-employment”, he needed structure – the structure of an office day, only stricter. We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. The Pratchett who emerges from this book is good at many things – beekeeping, mead making, gardening, negotiating, pissing people off – but most of all, he seems to have been good at love.

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It possessed a transformative magic, in the sense that, simply by putting it on, he could become the public Terry Pratchett that he was increasingly being asked to be. Yes, the shadow of his disease that struck Terry at the height of his career is present throughout the book.

These were the years when Terry’s career caught fire and properly blazed and when all the crucial numbers began to escalate vertiginously. Yet somehow, a book emerged, in which the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley got together to head off the end times, and in which lastingly important thoughts were set down about witches, prophecies, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and pets. Si la part objectiva i la part subjectiva estan alineades, per bé o per mal, tot flueix i la ressenya pot traspuar entusiasme per la lectura realitzada o, de vegades, tot el contrari. Have a big dinner each year, more if necessary or if a celebration is required, and raise a brandy to my memory and to happy days. D However, his years spent as a journalist of one sort or another and the people he thereby met was quite astonishing as well.

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes; The Official Biography

The diagnosis and everything that followed: The anguish, the helplessness, the race against time, the advocacy for dying with dignity, the ultimate decline—Rob was right there in the room with Terry through it all, and it is heart-wrenching to read. Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Observer--------At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own. And so here is Terry Pratchett one night in 2006, wearing a purple velvet dinner jacket with black silk lapels and sitting in a chauffeur-driven silver Mercedes as it passes below a bright electric hoarding reading: “TERRY PRATCHETT’S HOGFATHER”.

In 2006, I was with Terry when the offer came in for a collection of his nonfiction writing – the book which eventually became A Slip of the Keyboard. Now, the book Terry sadly couldn't finish has been written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the Pratchett literary estate. I had little knowledge of his wellbeing since the announcement that he had a rare form of Alzheimer's had been announced.

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official

a little bit of terry might still live in all of us who love and know his stories, but the bulk resides in those who loved and knew *him*, and A Life With Footnotes somehow bridges this gap for its readers.I have no doubt that other books will analyze Pratchett's contributions to culture and literature, but this is the fond remembrance of a close associate and friend.