Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

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It's a biography of Terry Pratchett, one which makes it clear he was not the friendly grandpa people assumed because of the hat/humour/twinkly eyes. There were, inevitably, grim and testing times in those years, and I spent a lot of that period in denial about the full gravity of what was unfolding.

Always one with an inquisitive mind and easily kindled curiosity, Terry insisted on forging his own sword after being knighted for services to literature. Before his death, Terry was working on an autobiography, which was never completed—but contrary to the hard-drive containing all of his unpublished fiction, which, in accordance with his final wishes, was ritually destroyed by a steamroller, Rob took it upon himself to finish what Terry had started. Yes parts of it are sad, but it's also heartwarming and funny and thoroughly interesting throughout.I have too many to mention but I'd like to mention The Luggage because that is the point (in the very first Discworld "The Colour of Magic") that I fell in love with all things Pratchett.

Aquesta Una Vida amb Notes a Peu de Pàgina ens mostra un ésser humà imperfecte, com ho som tots: com ho són, de fet, tots els personatges que viuen a les pàgines del Discmón. And then here’s Terry Pratchett the morning after, back at his desk, where the previous night is of no interest, because it happened yesterday, and because the focus must always come back eventually to a man in his gardening clothes, sitting at a screen, getting on with the next book.For all you have done, for all of the little things and all of the much bigger things and for the burying of the bodies … I thank you. Rob may not have come into Terry's life until much later but this was being worked on before he was taken from us for too soon and we are given insights by his friends, family and former work colleagues to give us a book that is bursting with detail that it could almost have been completely written by the man himself. Terry Pratchett, seen in 2007 during a visit to Melbourne, was fighting constantly against where society wanted to put him. He once phoned me up in exasperation that he was being totally taken for granted by his publishers,” his friend Dave Busby told me.

It also received special binding and the following additions: a postcard with a TP doodle and one of the most famous quote from the Discworld series, a doodle by Rob Wilkins, TP's gilded sigil (the honeybee) and more. Pratchett tries to have his books pulled from contention from awards because he hated being shortlisted if he wasn’t going to win. 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. If you are still wondering how to get free PDF EPUB of book Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins. On the showing of this he was also a very decent person, unspoiled by wealth, who conducted his personal life well and wrote terrific books and was passionately interested in a massive variety of things and people.

The respect and love he felt for Pratchett comes through loud and clear on every page, but he also doesn't shy away from the less than perfect aspects of Pratchett's acerbic personality or beat around the bush when it comes to that terrible diagnosis and the heartbreaking decline we see in the last third of the book. In addition to a whole bunch of amusing and less than amusing key events in Pratchett's life, the biography also includes a jaw-dropping amount of stuff I never knew before. Next, I marveled at the Ode to Sir Terry Pratchett from Sir David Jason, which as just lovely and included a closing line that was reminiscent of how the Two Ronnies would close each episode of their comedy television show.