Terry Pratchett one of my favorite authors is no more
One of favorite authors Sir Terry Pratchett has just died aged 66. Since 2007 he has been suffering from Alzheimer's but has continued to write his wonderful and amazing Discworld books. For those who have not yet read any of his books I strongly suggest you celebrate his life by reading one. What is discworld? It is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which are in turn standing on the back of a giant turtle, the Great A'Tuin . In his Discworld books he introduced Death as one of the recurring characters in many of the 40 books. He sold over 85 million copies of his books in 37 different languages. His humor at times was dark and perhaps he drew on his experience as Press Officer for the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) in an area which covered three nuclear power stations. He later joked that he had demonstrated "impeccable timing" by making this career change from a journalist to a press officer so soon...