Petition asks Death to bring Sir Terry Pratchett back - BBC Newsbeat
Add my signature please mr Death.
Add my signature please mr Death.
Petition For Death to reinstate Terry Pratchett...
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"There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this." Terry Pratchett
Any update on the petition ?
Any update on the petition ?
Did you see the assbasket opinion piece in The Guardian today? Pretty much a "Why Terry Pratchett sucks... and by the way, I've never read him."
You know . . . this would be a pretty good story idea.
Say Death relents and allows Pratchett (or -- ya know -- anybody) to come back . . . and then all the dead people start clamoring to come back because . . . well . . . it's only fair.
I think this would fly high here in the United States, where we're rapidly becoming a nation of people who think that anybody who has anything that everybody else doesn't have is a "bigot."
Either that . . . or I am entirely wrong.
Say Death relents and allows Pratchett (or -- ya know -- anybody) to come back . . . and then all the dead people start clamoring to come back because . . . well . . . it's only fair.
I think this would fly high here in the United States, where we're rapidly becoming a nation of people who think that anybody who has anything that everybody else doesn't have is a "bigot."
Either that . . . or I am entirely wrong.
I did and it got me so flipping angry (flip is a replacement word). His argument was basically he churned out lots of books which means he wasn't a proper author who writes stories that critics rave about but nobody wants to read. What an utter utter tool.
Grrr.
I would sign that petition.
I loved the fifth horseman gag about Kaos leaving before they were famous.
There's now a rebuttal on the site.
As for the original article, although the author claims he's not just being a literary snob, that's exactly what he's being. If he reads Pratchett, and decides that he's mediocre, or not for him, that's fine; that's his opinion. But not even reading him because he is popular smacks of literary snobbery. Some works of fiction are popular because they're popular (I want to be seen reading it), but many are popular because they are good.
As for Death releasing Sir Terry, as fun as an idea as it might be, I'm against it. If even one person is allowed back, it undermines the entire system. We can't be having that.
Agreed. As an editor, I would have shut it down after the second line, which was something like, "I've never read his books and I never will." *BUZZER* Wrong answer. Proper criticism requires some familiarity with the work to have any validity. If the guy had said, "I have read several of his books, and found him to be no great shakes. Here's why:...", and supported his argument, that would be okay. He would be wrong (in my opinion), but at least I could respect his stance. To slam something you've never read, though... that's sketchy as hell.
True dat, Mamaski. I think the only exception to this is a little bestseller called Mein Kampf. I don't need to read it to now how BAD it is, heh heh.
But if more people had read it and taken him seriously, the scope of destruction might have been less. HE said EXACTLY what he was going to do. Crazy.
What scares me is that many (his followers) DID read it, and took him seriously.
Funny story:Keef Richards compared Mick's first solo album to Mein Kampf: "everybody's got a copy, nobody's read it!"
But, like I say, I've never read it. How's his prose? (Heh heh). If his writing was anything like his painting it musta been one crappy book.
Pretty pedestrian (though it's hard to be absolutely sure when you're reading a translation), and not difficult to read at all. He was extremely direct about what he thought were the problems in post-War Germany, and how he would solve them. I actually don't think his book made much of a splash at all, even amongst his admirers. As I remember (I haven't looked at the history on this one for quite a while, so I hope I'm recalling correctly), it was considered laughable, even amongst most Germans. No one could do the outrageous things he planned! I do remember reading that those who read the book in the UK and America especially considered it an eye-roller--a "Get a load of this guy. What a loser! No one would let that happen!"
And then they did.