Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition Calendar 2010 ( Calendar ) By Terry Pratchett 14 used and new from $15.30 Customer Rating: First tagged by C. Bartels Customer tags: humorous fantasy (2), calendar (2), art work , cats , humor , discworld , cooking , pratchett , comedy , fantasy Review & Description "The Annual Discworld Calendar" is an inspired collection of paintings by award-winning illustrators who give us their own unique interpretations of Terry Pratchett's phenomenal... Read Full Story
Buy Cheap The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel Buy Low Price From Here Now Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. The Color of MagicM is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins -- with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind. style="clear:both"> Readmore... Read Full Story
Judging by the number of "tweets" on Twitter the documentary Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's is creating a stir across the pond. People seem to be genuinely moved. There can be little doubt that this documentary is raising awareness of Alzheimer's disease in Great Britain. This is a good thing. Hopefully, the BBC documentary will be seen here in the U.S. soon. Living with Alzheimer’s (BBC2) is a two-part documentary in which, for a year, the cameras followed Pratchett down what he... Read Full Story
Buy Cheap The Colour of Magic: Graphic Novel Buy Low Price From Here Now style="clear:both"> Readmore Technical Details See more technical details "A solid start to the series but the best is yet to come" 2009-07-13 By A. Whitehead (Colchester, Essex United Kingdom) Ankh-Morpork is the greatest city on the Discworld - a flat planet carried through space on the back of four elephants standing astride a giant turtle - and has seen fire, flood, famine and even the odd barbarian invasion... Read Full Story
AWARD-WINNING film-maker Vadim Jean has revealed how he created successful adaptations of fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels - and how his time at Warwick University as a history student helped lay the foundations for his career.
Vadim's TV movie of Pratchett's Hogfather was screened on Sky One in 2006. He went on to combine the author's works The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic into a two-part film adaptation, The Colour of Magic, which aired on the same channel... Read Full Story
Terry Prachett suffers from posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), a rare early-onset form of Alzheimer's disease. He has been on a mission to raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease and improve research into treatments. He has advocated on behalf of Alzheimer's sufferers in the U.K. Mr. Pratchett, who says he has benefited from the use of Aricept, has been a critic of the National Institute for Health because they are denying Aricept to more than 400,000 sufferers of Alzheimer's in his country... Read Full Story
Terry Prachett suffers from posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), a rare early-onset form of Alzheimer's disease. He has been on a mission to raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease and improve research into treatments. He has advocated on behalf of Alzheimer's sufferers in the U.K. Mr. Pratchett, who says he has benefited from the use of Aricept, has been a critic of the National Institute for Health because they are denying Aricept to more than 400,000 sufferers of Alzheimer's in his country... Read Full Story
For your reading pleasure, I'm giving away one copy of Terry Pratchett's latest, Unseen Academicals , to one lucky winner! For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Here's the blurb: Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go going when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic... Read Full Story
First, congratulations Terry Pratchett. Mr. Pratchett has done much to spread the word about Alzheimer's disease. He should also be congratulated for these good works. Terry is a good example that Alzheimer's disease knows no boundaries. It can strike anyone at anytime. Terry is to be admired. He decided to fight and to me this is a good thing. Terry is a good role model to all of us. His wonderful attitude is uplifting to millions of families that know and understand the devastation called... Read Full Story
