I know, I know, you're gonna say "My god have you only just discovered Terry Pratchett? Where exactly have you been all this while?" Ah well wherever it is I've been, I've been there long enough to know the age old adage of "better late than never" so there.
Luckily, at the age of 27, mere moments from when I will be collecting my pension and choosing my walking stick, I happened across a bookshop selling the Terry Pratchett graphic novels for cheap. And then Good Omens by Pratchett and good old Neil Gaiman (age 50 *gasp!*) somehow came floating along on the "hey can I borrow that and never return it?" pipeline. The final nail came in the form of a big Kinokuniya sale of just about every Terry Pratchett novel known to man, animal and quite possibly small species of literary fungi, and as such I am now, quite officially, a Terry Pratchett fan.
For the uninformed, Pratchett is most renown for the Discworld series of novels. I'd always wondered how many stories you could tell about an air hockey table but, no, apparently what they are about is a world, quite like ours, except that it's flat and sits on the backs of five heap big elephants who sit on the back of an even heaper bigger turtle swimming lazily through the depths of space. Oh and did I mention vampires, trolls and golems count as everyday inhabitants of Ankh-Morpok, its main city, as well? Discworld is laugh-a-minute silliness with absurd situations and groan inducing wordplay that is fun for the whole family (batteries not included), topped, in fact, only by the laugh-a-minute absurdity of our own world.
I recommend, mostly because I've read them,
And,
because I haven't but it sounds like it'll be a blast.
P.S It's come to my attention that there are also movie adaptations of some of Terry Pratchett's novels in existence. But a little voice in my head tells me these books don't lend themselves too well to cinematic reinterpretation. I'd listen to him.
