When I discovered Hogfather for sale on Amazon (and surely that was Kismet at work, that my first Pratchett DVD would also have been my first Pratchett book) I nearly swooned. Pratchett’s books were migrating to the small screen had escaped me. So–long-time fan of the books here, but the movies are a comparatively new guilty pleasure.Ĭhaulk it up to us not having cable until we moved to Milton-Freewater, but somehow the fact that Mr. Teatime (pronounced Tay-a-tim-ay) lisps his first sinister lines I was hooked.īy the time Going Postal came out I had graduated to buying the Pratchett books, in hard cover, because I knew then, and I know now, that these are books I will keep until I die, and then I want them buried with me. The first one I read was Hogfather,and from the moment Mr. I’ve been reading the Disc World books since The Boy was The Baby, and I was pushing him down the street in Eagle Point, Oregon, to borrow Pratchett books from the tiny library. Pratchett himself, and–a special treat for all us groupies–graced with a lovely little cameo appearance by the author. The DVD was also called Going Postal, which might have counted as copyright infringement had it not been based on Mr. If I hadn’t read Terry Pratchett’s book Going Postalway back when it was first published in 2005 I would have sworn the DVD I watched tonight was satirizing the actions of Big Business over the last few years.
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