To be honest with you,
Terry Pratchett is someone that is well respected all over the world and has contributed a lot of worth to the world. Jade Goody is someone who got famous for being in a house, then started losing fame and went back into the same house, just with some other people who had been on telly. That isn't to say I like seeing her suffer, but they are very different people of very different standing in the world.
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Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:20,
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I dont care
we all die. and pay taxes. just cos they are famous doesnt make it harder/better/easier
mind you i study psychology and Pratchett is a good source of info for alzheimers, eloquent and doesnt ask for sympathy
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Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:23,
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mind you i study psychology and Pratchett is a good source of info for alzheimers, eloquent and doesnt ask for sympathy
I enjoy Terry Pratchett's works of fiction
but I would hardly say that he has contributed a lot of worth. Doctors contribute a lot of worth. Teachers contribute a lot of worth. Firemen contribute a lot of worth. Novelists and inane TV personalities alike contribute roughly the same amount.
So unless Terry Pratchett has fed a lot of third world children I don't know about, he hasn't really contributed anything of any real worth.
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Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:38,
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So unless Terry Pratchett has fed a lot of third world children I don't know about, he hasn't really contributed anything of any real worth.
Well i don't know about that.
There are plenty of authors who have helped people, plenty of books that have helped people. You don't need to give someone a heart bypass to save/change their life.
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Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:42,
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Jade Goody - Terry Pratchett?
Can't believe the connection has been made somehow, one of my fave authors, and a retard from fake TV, bizarre.
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Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:45,
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Well,
there is a new series of programs looking at Alzheimers, which is following Terry Pratchett around as he comes to terms with his Posterior Cortical Atrophy. Innit!
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Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:52,
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yeh but no but yeh...
I know the show, recorded it, gonna watch it, but still can't see the connection. Actually looking forward to watchin it, anyone seen it?
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Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:59,
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Unless you're talking about Chicken Soup for the Soul
I must disagree.
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Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:46,
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I'm not saying it did for me,
but take something like Catcher in the Rye. A lot of people claim it helped them through their disenfranchised youths and such. There are plenty of books out there that have helped people through difficult times in their lives.
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Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:54,
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But disenfranchisment and youth go hand in hand.
Disenfranchisement is usually solved by a lack of youth. Growing up is the best medicine.
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Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:59,
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Of course.
We have all been there! Maybe you had music, maybe someone else had books to help them through it :)
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Sat 7 Feb 2009, 0:14,
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Also: he's not as funny as he thinks he is
I mean the whole alzheimers thing is more than a bit unpleasant but let's get some perspective here.
He wrote third-rate fantasy novels with an allusion to humour and spotty retards who didn't know better loved him for it.
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Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:57,
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He wrote third-rate fantasy novels with an allusion to humour and spotty retards who didn't know better loved him for it.