For services to literature, humour and pen makers

[matgb]

Go. Sign. Now.:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to recommend Terry Pratchet for a Knighthood for his services to literature.

Now damnit!

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

For once I'm passing a link ot to you, instead of stealing it from you :D

[matgb]

Heh, it's an incestuous thing, links get shared all over. Besides, it's a good link.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Aye.

* transfixed by your icon *

[matgb]

Aye; I was looking for a Hannibal 'plan comes together' icon, but the only icons comm I found for the A-Team only had stuff by this girl worth taking, and she has a thing for Dirk. But her stuff is soo good, very subtle animations, eye catching stuff. I just uploaded the ones I liked most and could use.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

He used to drive a white Corvette. [/car geek]

[matgb]

Corvette? Crazy silly car.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Speed of a Lambo, cornering ability of a Fiat Panda.

[foxfirefey]

Yessssss.

[matgb]

Precisely. It might even happen as well.

[foxfirefey]

Terry Pratchett has given me far more pleasure than, say, Bill Gates ever did.

[matgb]

Has Gates really given you any pleasure at all? Apart from mocking, of course. But yeah, luvs the pTerry; am currently re-reading Colour, ages since I read the first one.

[foxfirefey]

Well, he DOES donate to charity and all, I guess. And I like MS keyboards and mice, which work splendidly with my Mac.

[foxfirefey]

Oh, and XBoxes aren't half bad.

[matgb]

So mostly hardware stuff then. Yeah, I like the charity stuff, at least all that monopoly money is going to good use.

[two-brains.livejournal.com]

absolutely...

but TP himself denies any link to LITERATURE... Great stories, wonderful biting satire, fabulous take offs of the real world... but possibly not literature?

[matgb]

He denies many things, but books is books, they get classed as literature in the broad sense, even if they're not literary fiction.

He can be weird at times. Undoubtedly why we like him...

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I think the view is that he is guilty of literature regardless of what he thinks.

Besides Barbara Cartland got a Damehood for services to literature so...

[two-brains.livejournal.com]

well put!

As a teacher, I really ought to know what exactly constitutes "literature" as oposed to just "a book"...

Any offerings?

[bagrec.livejournal.com]

Not for me, I fear. I absolutely don't "get" Pratchett...

[matgb]

Fair enough, it's not for everyone, life would be a boring place if we were all the same.

OTOH, I might try to lend you Wintersmith at some point, the basic plot is that a teenage girl messed up the Morris dance and causes no end of trouble because of it. It's aimed at young teens unlike most his stuff, which is aimed at adults, but it's a very good book.

I love the parody; the main city is London, and there's a fairly close parallel to a lot of things in undercurrents, especially in the more recent stuff.

[doccy.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone that reads Pratchett to his wife (almost) ever night before falling asleep... I agree entirely! :D

[matgb]

See, as things to do in bed before going to sleep, that rates fairly low on my list of priorities, but then, I'm not married so I wouldn't know...

[doccy.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE NOT MARRIED??? *gasps* Surely all people above the age of 19 are either married or clinically insane, as defined by the appropriate Act of 1802...

;)

It's a good read as a last-thing-at-night-just-to-calm-down thing. And I enjoy doing the voices.

:D

[matgb]

YOU'RE NOT MARRIED??

Nope. I'd say I'm working on it, but it'd be presumptuous, we've only really just met.

And the latter makes a bit of sense, in a weird way. Freak ;-)

[doccy.livejournal.com]

*does the Dance of Freak* What?? Seriously, there is something to be said for being able to savour some of the lines. Especially the "Good Gods sir, is it??" lines from The Truth, and Death chatting with Vimes in Fifth Elephant :D

[matgb]

Ok, enough already.

I think I get the point. I'm also slightly worried SB might see this and get similar ideas ;-)

[davidnm.livejournal.com]

Fantastic :)

Though I'd have to say, I'd laugh if they actually did (in a *blink* 'Blair's listened to a good idea?' way).

[matgb]

It has happened; he's quite keen on giving honours to celebs, especially popular niche market ones.

Doubt Gordon will, too dour. OTOH, some spin doctor will find that Pratchett fans are an essential swing demographic and we'll all be doomed...

[davidnm.livejournal.com]

LOL - the marketing approach to honours.

*sudden thought* Thinking about it, that essentially sums it up at the moment, pretty much. Oh dear.

[matgb]

Yup, the whole New Labour project is just marketing and interest group analysis, conviction politics and belief in a cause isn't acceptable in ether of the big two any more, it's all about career and staying in office.

Cameron's a marketeer by profession anyway. Gah!

'tis why I vote the way I do, they actually have principles and policies.