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A review by daniellehazel
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
4.0
A moving biography where you got a strong sense of who Terry Pratchett was as a human being.
I think the main thing missing for me here was the connection between Sir Terry and his characters in a more detailed sense. From a number of anecdotes given in the book, you could feel that each of his characters had a clearly defined essence which could be portrayed rightly/wrongly in adaptions of different kinds eg. in figurines, films, TV etc. I was hoping to get more of an in depth view of where Pratchett's core characters came from (eg. Vimes, Weatherwax, Rincewind etc.) and what they meant to him.
I got the strong sense Sir Terry would have given interesting answers if he'd been asked those questions. Maybe he already has in other places elsewhere, which is why Wilkins didn't cover it. Maybe too it's unrealistic to expect a biography to go into that layer of depth.
But I do feel like this book, while still being good, could have been even better if it went down to that extra bit of detail.
I think the main thing missing for me here was the connection between Sir Terry and his characters in a more detailed sense. From a number of anecdotes given in the book, you could feel that each of his characters had a clearly defined essence which could be portrayed rightly/wrongly in adaptions of different kinds eg. in figurines, films, TV etc. I was hoping to get more of an in depth view of where Pratchett's core characters came from (eg. Vimes, Weatherwax, Rincewind etc.) and what they meant to him.
I got the strong sense Sir Terry would have given interesting answers if he'd been asked those questions. Maybe he already has in other places elsewhere, which is why Wilkins didn't cover it. Maybe too it's unrealistic to expect a biography to go into that layer of depth.
But I do feel like this book, while still being good, could have been even better if it went down to that extra bit of detail.