Last night we were at The Stables in Wavendon (near Milton Keynes) for a show by Marc Burrows about one of our (and his) favourite authors Sir Terry Pratchett (RIP).
Marc's show is about his love of the books and also about the man behind him. He knows his stuff having written a biography. He had lots of insight into this amazing man who was the biggest selling author in the UK for many years despite being dismissed by the snobbish critics who may not consider fantasy to be a serious genre. They miss that Terry's books are about people and also very funny. The show is funny too.
We bought Marc's book and also a collection of Pratchett writing to add to our extensive collection. You may notice that we have more than one edition of some books, but we just happened to find different ones in charity shops. Only one of them is signed from when we met the great man at one of the very early fan conventions. We are missing a few of his books that we will look out for. We do need to rearrange our books to fit them all in. There are other bookshelves around the house with many more books.
It was a very enjoyable evening surrounded by fellow fans. He did ask if anyone there had not read the books and gave one (Mort) to the guy next to me who put his hand up. His other half had read some and we had a chat in the interval. She volunteers at the venue and had seen lots of shows there. We have been there for comedy and music.
Marc is off to the Adelaide Fringe soon and then will be touring the UK. I think this was a rare occasion where an ad on Facebook was useful as I spotted it there. Many years ago I did look at the Pratchett fan forums, but have lost touch with that. I expect a lot of that is on FB these days, but I rarely look at it and I am not on Twtr. We need more entertainers to be on Hive so we can follow them here.
I saw a nice Pratchett quote for Valentine's day:
"What would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.