Some sad news for Discworld fans

[angrypaladin]

Well, I'm kicking myself for not going to see Terry Pratchett at this year's Library of Congress Bookfest now. In a open letter to Discworld fans, Terry has announced that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Terry stresses that he's ok, getting good treatment and continuing to work.

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[doomfarer]

I had read that earlier today as well off of a Reddit feed. My hopes and lots of good joss going out to him. He is a very oddly wonderful type of chap, as I can tell by his books.

BTW, did you have the chance to catch 'Hogfather'? It's been on the ION channel a couple of times; if not holler out and I'll capture it on Tivo and burn it to DVD to you.

[angrypaladin]

No, I haven't seen it yet. I was thinking about downloading the CD for the holidays off of Audible, but the Discworld books run from around $40 to $60 (which is considerably more than most other books). If you've got a copy I'd love to see it. Is it for sale on DVD here in the states? Hmm, I'll have to check it out on BBC America. Thanks for the offer! ^_^

[doomfarer]

If worse comes to worse, and it isn't going to be replayed anytime soon, you could always bittorrent it as a Divx file. Let me know if you need a fix.

PS - It was fairly amusing to me.

[doomfarer]

The next showing of Hogfather according to DirecTV is Dec 23 at 1900. I'll set it up to record, if you like. I think I already have a Divx copy of it, but that's probably computer only unless you have a DVD player that has Divx codecs built in.