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Diana Wynne Jones is dead
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I don't know if any of you people have read her books but she is my second favorite author and I am sort of wigging out right now. Celebrity deaths usually make me kind of sad in a "shucks it's terrible when people die" way but I really, really loved her work. Her awesome books include:
On which a movie is based, but the movie is totally different so go read the book. It is awesome.
Which is cool for kids but I feel like it speaks to adults a lot, especially parents.
This is great because it has alternate dimensions and magic and a bunch of stuff that takes place at a big fantasy convention. So cool! The sequel to this is also great. I lent someone my copy and I want it baaack.
There are so many other great books of hers and I love them all. If you do too, then let's talk about it. Otherwise I guess we can talk about which dead celebrities have affected us most profoundly. Or how I'm going to lose it even worse when Terry Pratchett goes.
On which a movie is based, but the movie is totally different so go read the book. It is awesome.
Which is cool for kids but I feel like it speaks to adults a lot, especially parents.
This is great because it has alternate dimensions and magic and a bunch of stuff that takes place at a big fantasy convention. So cool! The sequel to this is also great. I lent someone my copy and I want it baaack.
There are so many other great books of hers and I love them all. If you do too, then let's talk about it. Otherwise I guess we can talk about which dead celebrities have affected us most profoundly. Or how I'm going to lose it even worse when Terry Pratchett goes.
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read Dark Lord of Derkholm, loved it
sucks that she died
i am despondent
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Howl's Moving Castle was one of my most favourite books back in the day
And don't even talk about Pratchett going. Don't dare.
RIP Diana Wynne Jones
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I also tried to read another book of hers about a girl who inexplicably becomes some kind of ghost and tries to piece her life back together but it bored me so much I couldn't even finish it; does anyone remember that one?
Holy shit
His coat of arms is boss as hell
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texted my brother this morning to tell him and probably ruined his and my librarian sister-in-law's day
this is a shame
Thanks ma'am and rest in peace
It was pretty good!
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Quoth, I was absolutely gutted when I heard Terry Pratchett had Alzeimers, the only time bad news about a famous person has hit me as hard as though it had happened to a personal friend, so yeah - I know exactly where you're coming from.
Her books are amazing, I also urge anyone who hasn't read one to do so!
Terry Pratchett is my favorite author so this is one of those things where like... you hear about a bad thing happening to one person and you sort of start preparing yourself for that eventuality and then BLAM this other person kicks it totally unexpectedly
i cannot emphasize enough how i have never been this upset over a celebrity death before
even douglas adams, who i also loved
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i will now devote my life to buying all of her books as i have done with Pratchett
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also her general approach to magic as a sort of stubbornness where you will something to happen was very cool
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I find it really hard to describe her writing style, and I mean that as a massive compliment
With so many other authors you can point to disparate elements and say "oh yeah, as a whole they're like X or Y" but... I can't really liken her to anyone except Diana Wynne Jones
Man I haven't read her stuff in forever. Gonna go grab some of her books as well as some Brian Jacques I reckon
Oh, I just remembered another one of her books I liked - Black Maria. The titular character had a way of making people do things by specifically asking them not to.
I always thought that was a great comment on the way that mothers and old ladies always do that, and how it is actually kind of magical.
I read Dark Lord of Dirkholm so many times that I'm pretty sure my copy's fallen apart
i am pausing to watch the movie now
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But yes, her writing style was unusual. I don't think I've ever read anything quite like it.
I loved the Chrestomanci and The Dark Lord of Derkholm series and was hoping she would continue on with both of them. I guess I'm just going to have to take solace in the awesome books she's already written.
Dark Lord of Derkholm was great
must be near on a decade since I've read it last.
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I loved Diana Wynne Jones as a teenager, I think I read all her books this is terrible
tale of time city, the homeward bounders, fire and hemlock, chestromanci, the spellcoats, her writing was just amazing. She wrote characters that felt so much like real people, and there was never a point where you could catch her merely following forms. I was so excited when I heard that Miyazaki would be doing Howl's Moving Castle although it ended up very different from the book...
anyway I am so thankful for the life of this wonderful person
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The movie is so ridiculously different than the book. This is a good thing! They are both incredibly enjoyable for entirely different reasons!
It's very rare for that sort of thing to happen, in my experience
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God dammit. Her Fantasy Guide influenced my writing more then I can say.
Fuck.
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arr-eye-pe to a great writer
Oh, damn, I'm so sorry. See, when this happened to Douglas Adams, I felt exactly like this. The poor guy wasn't even sick.
I was going to make a library run this afternoon. Now I know exactly what books I'm going to check out.
RIP.