Very sad news indeed

[Hauldren Collider]

The plot for mirror's edge wasn't that great though even if the game was fun.

I really liked it personally

[DaShi]

Pratchett had a very profound effect on my personal thinking and philosophy, more so than any other author. I think this is true of a lot of people my age and slightly older. That's why it is a big deal to a lot of people.

But Pratchett's book espouse the ideologies of tolerance, understanding, and supporting one another. They are very anti-classism. Pratchett, like Vonnegut, was very liberal in personal beliefs. At least on these forums, you don't seem to have any of these qualities. So, I guess what I'm getting at is, what do you get from his books?

[Hauldren Collider]

You really don't know me very well.

[DaShi]

As I said, I only know you on these forums.

[Jon Miller]

I really liked Thud, Going Postal and Monstrous Regiment. Haven't read Making Money. The later watch books are much much better than the earlier ones. I contend that the best Discworld book is Night Watch, followed by Thief of Time.

Going Postal might also have been good, not just OK.

I just bought Thud, let's hope I haven't read it!

Night Watch and Thief of Time were both good. Maybe even great, I haven't read them in a while.

I do agree that many of his first books (which were published when I was young and not reading fantasy at all) aren't as good as his later books. I think his best was the middle of his career.

JM

[Jon Miller]

I had read Thud and liked it, just didn't remember the name. Oh well, I haven't read it for over 5 years.

JM

[FlameFlash]

Good Omens was his only work I've read thus far. Wife accidentally bought it and passed it to me as she didn't appreciate the humour. Loved it and laughed out loud about it many times as I read through. I hadn't even heard of this "Discworld" but am now highly curious.

[N35t0r]

Very recommendable.

I've just started rereading the wole series, as a tribute of sorts. It will also involve buying whatever books I'm missing, which I read from friends or the school library. The latter books I haven't read since at least 12 (the first more like 15) years ago.

I also like the city watch series the most.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/

I've added this on several of the servers I control.

[Cort Haus]

I really liked Thud, Going Postal and Monstrous Regiment. Haven't read Making Money. The later watch books are much much better than the earlier ones. I contend that the best Discworld book is Night Watch, followed by Thief of Time.

Night Watch is the best. The others you mention are all close behind.

[-Jrabbit]

http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/

I've added this on several of the servers I control.

This is a pretty brilliant piece of Interwebs tribute for Pratchett, and pretty much straight out of the books. I'm no coder, so I had to look it up.
From reddit:

[discworld]/r/discworld redditors with web servers start putting "GNU Terry Pratchett" overhead into their HTML headers out of respect, something discworld characters do for dead 'clacks' operators.

For everyone's edification:

This is done on the discworld for clack operators (a network of semaphore towers), and mentioned in particular for John Dearheart, a clacks innovator.

His name, however, continues to be sent in the so-called Overhead of the clacks. The full message is "GNU John Dearheart", where the G means, that the message should be passed on, the N means "Not Logged" and the U that it should be turned around at the end of the line. So as the name "John Dearheart" keeps going up and down the line, this tradition applies a kind of immortality as "a man is not dead while his name is still spoken".

The cool thing is that the community has pitched in with instructions for other web servers, web apps, web proxies, frameworks, and mailservers.

Very nice, Koyaa.