English: Terry Pratchett

Hello everyone! This is my second blog, and it's about Terry Pratchett.
Who is Terry Pratchett, I hear you thinking. Terry Pratchett is a pretty famous British writer, he mostly writes humoristic fantasy themed books. He loved reading books, and at the only the age of 13 he wrote his very first book, which was commericially published 2 years later. He quit school at the age of 17, after which he started working as a journalist, but he continued to write books. Later, he became head of 4 nuclear powerplants.

When he published his first book in his discworld series, The Color of Magic, and it become world-famous in no time, he quit his main job and started working fulltime as a writer.
Pratchett anounced that he suffered from Alsheimer end 2007.

I chose to write about him, because he is one of my most favorite, if not the most, writer. I really like his discworld series, the series of book that made him popular. His discworld series all set place on a fictional world which is, you guessed it, disc shaped. That disc is carried by 4 elephants (the 5th one died), who are on their turn carried by a giant turtle, called A'tuin. It's a world filled with magic, wizards, monsters, strange laws of physics, and much, much more!

I really like Terry pratchett, because he managed to create such a sophisticated world, in which everything makes sense one way or another, and his books are filled with small, funny references to a lot of different things, and it's also full of wordplay, for example, in the first book in the series, there is a chest that follows his owner forever, to wherever, and the chest is made out of 100% sapient treepwood. Sapient here reffers to sentient.

Recently, a film was made about the first 2 books in the series, The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic. I watched the films myself recently, but they were a lot less good than the books. They were still funny, but the problem is that the books have such a rich story, and trying to put everything in the film whilst still making sense is neigh impossible. The movie tried to do that, but it failed miserably. For example, in the book there is a lot of fuzz about the librarian who turned into a chimp after a giant ball of magic travelled through him, but in the film you just saw a ball of magic going through the floor, and then you saw a monkey sitting on a desk. If you didn't know what just happened by reading the book, you would still be clueless at the end of the film about what that monkey was doing there.

There, that was my second blog, I really hoped you liked it!

-Olivier