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Terry Pratchett


Born
in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, The United Kingdom
April 28, 1948

Died
March 12, 2015

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Genre
Fantasy & Science Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Children's

Influences
P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton, Lloyd Alexander ...more


Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.
Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Emp ...more

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A Stroke of the Pen

We are delighted to reveal the magical cover for A Stroke of the Pen, a collection of 20 short stories penned by a young (and very talented) Terry Pratchett. Each story is accompanied by exquisite original woodcut illustrations, making this a truly unmissable collection for any Terry Pratchett fan this autumn.

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Mort (Discworld, #4; Death,...
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The Color of Magic The Light Fantastic Sourcery Eric Interesting Times The Last Continent The Last Hero
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Mort Reaper Man Soul Music Hogfather Thief of Time
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Equal Rites Wyrd Sisters Witches Abroad Lords and Ladies Maskerade Carpe Jugulum
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Moving Pictures The Truth Monstrous Regiment Going Postal Making Money Raising Steam
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The Wee Free Men A Hat Full of Sky Wintersmith I Shall Wear Midnight The Shepherd's Crown
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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
tags: humor, proverb
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“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
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December 2014 New School Classics Poll

Which book would you like to read for our December 2014 New School Classics group read?

1963, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 288 pages
 
  33 votes, 21.2%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages
 
  18 votes, 11.5%

 
  16 votes, 10.3%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages
 
  14 votes, 9.0%

 
  14 votes, 9.0%

 
  13 votes, 8.3%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages
 
  12 votes, 7.7%

 
  12 votes, 7.7%

1918, My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 232 pages
 
  10 votes, 6.4%

 
  10 votes, 6.4%

1940, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, 320 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.3%

1961, A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul, 623 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.6%

1992, Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth, 630 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.6%

156 total votes
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