21 September 05

An Evening With Terry Pratchett

sketch of Terry Pratchett Terry Pratchett was speaking tonight at Cody’s in Berkeley, part of his Thud! book tour (he found out just before his appearance that it was #4 on the NYT bestseller list; this was someone who could hardly get his books published in the US in the 90s).

It’s bad when there’s no standing room.

He was funny, even hilarious, throughout. He’s much shorter than you’d think from his author photo. The line to get books signed snaked through Cody’s, but if you didn’t want a signature (I didn’t), there was a nice space off to the side for furtive sketching.

Posted by at 10:18 PM in Books and Language | Link |
  1. I was at Pratchett meeting in Santa Cruz, I was sure that Berkley would be overcrowded.

    7 minutes of video in SC is available here:
    http://pratchett.org/dwnload/video/PterrySantaCruz.avi

    thanks Microsoft, the rest of it recordered without sound. I recordered with my cell phone, sorry for quality. Pratchett OKed puting it on Internet, as long as no money is being charged.

    mp3 of another meeting is located here:
    http://pratchett.org/dwnload/video/Pratchett-20050820.mp3
    — Pioner    22. September 2005, 15:09    Link

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