239: The Colour Blue

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In honor of Sir Terry Pratchett, who died a week ago, four voracious Pratchett readers discuss what made Pratchett great, their favorite Pratchett works, and recommend places for newcomers to Terry Pratchett to get started.

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0:21.6	Start here. Go anywhere.
0:23.6	The Incomparable, number 239, March 2015.
0:33.6	Welcome back to The Incomparable. I am Jason Snell.
0:48.3	So this is not, I hope, a trend, but our second in about five weeks of tributes to people who have recently passed away.
0:53.7	Terry Pratchett, the great writer, Sir Terry Pratchett, passed away recently.
0:58.2	And we've convened a group of people who have read a bunch of Terry Pratchett stuff to talk about it.
1:06.2	I'm not actually one of those people, so I'm going to fade into the background after introducing to you these fine members of our panel who are going to talk in this episode.
1:07.8	Lisa Schmeisers out there. Hi, Lisa.
1:09.3	Hi, it's great to be here.
1:11.8	Monty Ashley is there. Hi, Lisa. Hi, it's great to be here. Monti Ashley is there. Hi, Monty.
1:16.7	Hi, Jason. You should read Terry Pratchett. I should read more of it. I've read, I've read some, but I should read more.
1:22.0	I look forward to hearing you tell me what episodes or what episodes, what books I should read.
1:27.6	Dan Moran, hello. Nice to be here. I wish it was under better circumstances. Yeah, absolutely.
1:28.5	And Steve Lutz.
1:30.2	Hey, Jason.
1:31.1	Glad to be here.
1:32.1	Wish it was like Dan, you know, a happier time.
1:34.9	I wish these guys would stop dying.
1:36.9	Cut it out.
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