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The guy who really got me going on Terry Pratchett was my college buddy Josh, who brought all the Discworld books with him to his apartment so he could have them handy whenever he wanted. He was jealous of me since I had so many books yet to read. (I still do. Savoring it and all that.)

I tried to come up with a favorite Pratchett character, then realized there were too damn many of them. He had brilliant characters, smart stories, and great comedy. I am glad he was here on this Earth as long as he was, and I hope whatever Death ushers him to now is peaceful for him.

... I may have to go read Small Gods again now. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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*hugs*

My favourite Discworld character depends somewhat on my mood, though Sam Vimes is always in the top 3 (I named my cat after him, after all, though if you ask my husband he's named after Samwise Gamgee). And for me it was my dad who got me into Discworld. Or rather, we got into it together - he brought The Light Fantastic home from the library one day, the cover drew my eye and I went, what's this? And he said, it's fantasy, but funny? I'm like three pages in, you can have a go when I'm done. So for years that's what we did, sharing Discworld books from the library, until I decided I needed to own them and started buying up copies.

Discworld is in fact what got me into reading and writing in English, by the way. The translations are pretty good, but I was curious about the original. And then I stopped reading translations altogether, and my own writing turned from Dutch to English as well.

... I may be working on a big post about him, I have so much to say and never did it enough while he was still with us. :(