Terry Pratchett diagnosed with alzheimers.

:cry:

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/12/13/terry.pratchett/index.html

 

:cry:

 

:-(

 

Fuck.

 

:-(

 

:cry:

First Robert jordan goes, than Pratchett get alzheimers :cry:

Ok he's not dead like Jordan, but still. :cry:

 

I haven't read any of his books.

 

Good books. I'm glad he's taking it well though -

"I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as 'I am not dead'. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as will everybody else."

I hope I'm as humorous while I'm diagnosed with such a condition.

Rock on Pratchett.

 

Yeah, I think Jordan actually dying is worse, but this still sucks.

Last really good fantasy series I read was everything Terry Goodkind ever wrote.



For the win!

 

That doesn't look too bad at all philes....
Very sad news.

 

Goodkind didn't understand that if I'm reading book 10, I probably read books 1-9. About half of what he wrote was recapping what he wrote before. Not to mention that the story got more and more far-fetched as it dragged on.

 

I think that the worst fantasy I've ever read was the 'Return of the Archwizards' triology [Forgotten Realms]. Usually I like the FR books, even if some of'em are predictable, but the first one was alright, then the second one got more and more intricate, complex, and far-fletched. That, and Elminster was portrayed as a bumbling baffoon who had no idea what to do: and I like Elminster.

 

Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels.
Excellent reading!

 

Seconded. In addition, any Diana Wynn Jones book is good for an entertaining storie that isn't unneccesarily verbose *Cough -Terry Goodkind- cough*. I'm also a big Garth Nix fan, if you couldn't figure that out.