Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:46 AM EST

Article Source: The Register (UK)

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Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, as he announced yesterday with a post to the web. The best-selling author of the Discworld fantasy books is 59 years-old.

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Dan Charles

This sucks. The Discworld series has been of my few light enjoyments in recent years.

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#1 - Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:48 AM EST

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agio

How terribly sad. Pratchett is a great writer, a true literary heir to Jonathan Swift.

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#2 - Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:20 AM EST

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Angel_C

I'm reading Wee Free Men now and have read all of the Discworld books so far. This is a sad thing for Mr. Pratchett.

I didn't know that movies had been made of some of the series. I saw "Hogfather" on ION television this week--a two night mini series. Pretty good!

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#3 - Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:21 PM EST

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agio

I hope to catch that when it's out on DVD.

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#3.1 - Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:15 PM EST

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Dan Charles

I did not know about the screen adaptations, this requires investigation.

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#3.2 - Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:47 PM EST

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Angel_C

Let us know what you find out. I have the animated version of Wyrd Sisters--it's not great, but parts of it are very funny.

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#3.3 - Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:12 PM EST

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Carole R

It must be very hard for a person diagnosed with a terminal illness, to remain optimistic about the future, but lets face it we, none of us knows when our end is nigh. I loved the last comment about how to help and personally feel that shortly, alzheimers will not be the sentence that it has been to this time. I wish him love and strength.

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#4 - Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:25 PM EST

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Damn!

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#5 - Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:46 PM EST

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Darrell J. Rohl

This is just too bad. I certainly wish him well, and look forward to any and all of his future books.

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3 votes

#6 - Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:05 PM EST

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