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Today I read “The Shepherd’s Crown”
I started reading Pterry in 1994. I was divorced, homeless, and unemployed all in the same week. I slept in my car and read “Reaper Man.”
My life got better. Better than I could imagine and throughout my life I read and reread Discworld.
When Pterry passed in 2015 I was gutted. I was 50.
I didn’t want it to be over. I kept putting off reading his final book.
I wept while reading the opening chapter. No spoilers for an 11 year old novel.
The rest of the book was cathartic and beautiful. It was something I didn’t know that I needed.
GNU Pterry and thanks for the memories.
u/Mistervimes65 — 17 days ago