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Originally Posted by CommanderROR
I just found that "Hogfather" has been made into a movie...and I did not hear about it, I just stumbled over the DVD when looking for something completely different...
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Ahh, you been looking for documentaries on animal husbandry too, huh?
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Why doesn't anybody tell me these things...
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We did! I sent you a memo and everything. We can't be held accountable if you're gallavanting out and about in the country trying to hybridise porcine sub-species!
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and it appears the film is actually quite decent...I have watched the first half, it's 3 hours long so I had to take a break...
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Three hours?! Remind me not to drink too much water beforehand, or perhaps just attach my Cathet-o-bag (I bought it from an infomercial. It also came with a free emetic: the book 'My Life in Nude Pictures' by Margaret Thatcher).
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So if you want some distraction, then go and buy the movie, it's even christmas-themed...^^
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It's also one of my favourite of his books, closely associated with one of my favourite, non-book, Pratchett quotes:
"Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe.
It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell."
Ah, he's a funny bugger, isn't he? He'd have to be the most consistently funny bloke I've read (and by extension one of the smartest), and one that is always "hardbacked" for me, as anything new he brings out is "drop everything" time for me.
Someone mentioned that bad things happen to good people, which it certainly sometimes feels like (in the past few years, Dad, Pop, Mum-out-law, Monty-the-Best-Dog-Ever) but, really, truly, bad things happen to everybody. This is probably not the first "bad thing" that has happened to someone as good as Terry, and often, I reckon, it's the way they've lived with those past bad things, big or small, that has made them the good that they are. If this isn't the case, well, at least Terry's books are the things that help me, sometimes even tell me how to, get through the bad things. That's gotta be good, yeah?
Ya gotta laugh, hey?
Cheers,
Marc