Terry Pratchett Knighted in Honours list
 

Huuurah Terry P knighted for services to literature

bout time too

Courtney Pine a CBE

Robert plant a CBE

as a confirm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/default.stm

Here Here about Practchett, the man is a true genius who really deserves an accolade such as this. I just hope that he is able to produce a few more books before the Alzheimers takes its toll!!!

Just one question, if Plant is being honoured then why isn't Page???

Because Page is already King.

As for Pratchett... when I were a teenager, i loved his books (Mort, guards guards, men at arms..) but i tried to read one of his more recent ones and i don't know if it was me o the book but i didn't enjoy it enough to read it all... (think it was called "money")

Congrats to the man anyways, gave me a lot of joy when i was younger. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

The thing that gets me about the honours list is that there's the New Years Honours and the Queen's Birthday Honours but it seems like they don't award them at just two events and they seem to be spread through a number of days about the year. Makes sense what with the schedules of many VIPs and the Queen etc. This does give the impression that there's an honours ceremony nearly every month which seems to take away from the 'occassion'. Imagine if you will the Academy awards giving an Oscar away each week, not much of an 'event' is it?

I could be wrong but it just drags on, congrats to the mann though he was my first 'LOL' reading a book. Pyramids, when the head embalmer sees every mummy he's ever made storming towards him because they're a little bit miffed at being denied the afterlife because they're bodies were trapped in their Pyramid tombs. He shouts out something like 'begone foul shades' - it just cracked me up.

yey. thats good news
i got his latest book for christmas but havenet started it yet

which one is everyones favourite book/series
i likes the watch ones bestest
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Well deserved! I'm reading Going Postal at the moment, loving it. My favourite one so far has been Night Watch.

Two thoughts.

Terry Pratchet got his gong for his work with Alzheimers not for writing books (according to the press release)

(did you also know that the word 'embuggerance' was first coined by Pratchett?)

And I thought I'd share with you what I have been told by a friend after he collected his MBE from Liz herself. One palace staff member told him that many years ago some wag amongst their number 're-designated' what the three main gong acronym's stood for. This is why people REALLY get an award;

MBE = My bloody efforts (earned this)
OBE = Others bloody efforts (earned this)
CBE = Conned bloody Elizabeth (into giving me this)


Lee

Speaking of which I just read the latest offering from Lukyanenko, "The Last Watch" (quite a fan of "The Night Watch" & "The Day Watch") and sorry to say that this last one wasn't so good.... http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/frown.gif

Been reading so much Ray E Feist recently I actually purchased an RPG for the station (Elder Scrolls) http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif Anyone a fan of REF? Makes me feel like I'm a kid again when I read these books... sweet.

My fav Pratchett books were the ones I mentioned... always a special place in my heart for the city watch of Ankh Morpork http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

Its not you, he hasn't written anything really great since Night Watch.

thud? wee free men?
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Thud wasn't up to standard. Wee Free Men was an excellent children's book (I liked it).

hurrah

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7896865.stm

hey sats says services to Literature

My favourite is definatly "Moving Pictures" a complete micky take on hollywood, lots of scenes from old movies and the amazing "Gaspode the talking dog".