Discworld Mort, Book 4, (Paperback)

from kevn57

THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US Cruel? I don't think so, no matter how high, how mighty, how kind or evil the tyrant might be, take solace that no matter what, in the end, DEATH or Mort will come for them. I love stories about anthropomorphic personification, they get at the heart of the...

from reading_fox

One of his early classics and often a recommended starting points for reading Terry's works. On the Discworld Death is an anthromorphic personifications - an embodyment of a metaphysical concept, hence he rides a horse an has a sythe becasue that's what people believe death does. Mort is a farmer...

from Snukes

So it turns out I'm a huge fan of books about Death as a character. If anyone know of others, let me know. (It turns out googling for "books about Death" doesn't get me anywhere.) This makes three I've read, after Piers Anthony's On a Pale Horse and Christopher Moore's A Dirty Job. Yum.The ending...

from iftyzaidi

Having read this many years ago and remembering little about it other than that I thought it was one of the best of the early discworld books, I decided that Mort was up for a re-read. The basic plot revolves around one of my favourite dsicworld characters - Death - who takes on an apprentice to ...

from SamuelW

Having never read a Terry Pratchett novel before, I was in for quite a treat when I first picked up Mort. It is not hard to see how the Discworld novels have developed such a massive following - Pratchett pokes fun at every little bit of the fantasy genre, developing delightfully absurd situation...