Mort

Discworld #4

by Terry Pratchett

Mass Market Paperback, 243 pages

English language

Published Jan. 31, 2001 by HarperTorch.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-102068-1
OCLC Number:: 45894907

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(35 reviews)

Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.

2 editions

Tindra reviewed Mort by Terry Pratchett

Death gets angry

5 stars

Because of course the person Death would choose as an apprentice has a name that means... Death.

ANYWAY

I really don't know what to say beyond the usual "Pratchett is a brilliant satirist" and "this is both hilarious and super deep". Because it is those things.

Audiobook generally excellent, though the fact that Rincewind's speech patterns were markedly different than Color of Magic/Light Fantastic was a bit jarring (yes, different narrator, but the fact that the speech pattern wasn't even close was annoying). (I wonder if this is why there's consistently a separate narrator for Death through this whole series of audiobooks?)

Keno Goertz reviewed Mort by Terry Pratchett

Review of 'Mort' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Terry Pratchett is what I’ve been missing when reading Douglas Adams. Mort is not just witty, but actually quite touching and even frightening. The humour seems somehow profound, for example when Death explains that everyone gets what they think is coming for them, because “it’s so much neater that way”. This light-hearted fun actually opens up a philosophical can of worms: If I expect a heavenly afterlife together with my family, but my brother expects to be rotting in hell, is the brother in heaven actually my brother? He can’t be, but did I then actually get what I expected? This dilemma is even touched upon later. I much prefer this humour to cliché nihilism.