Mort

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my beloved diskworld submitted by ferdoble on August 11, 2011, 3:48pm To describe Terry Pratchett’s books is a difficult thing to do. The disc world series is in a word fantastic. Terry Pratchett, would seem to use the disk world, to take any theme, or know story and then twist it in his own very humorous way. These are not always laugh out loud funny (sometimes they are), bur rather the sort of funny that just sort of lifts your spirits a little bit.

I will say that in some cases there isn’t always a really strong story, sometimes its just his characters moving through one of those twisted themes. I like them all, you may want to start with the Most Von Lipwig story line (“Going Postal” and then “making money”) as at least the first one has a really great story line.

I love to pepper my reading queue with these books to keep all those books that take themselves seriously fresh and interesting.

I recommend reading them ALL.

OR listening to them. The two main narrators of Terry Pratchett’s books are Stephen Briggs & Nigel Planer and they take Terry Pratchett’s phenomenal writing to a whole new level.

Highly recommended submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 13, 2012, 8:41pm One of beloved author Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, "Mort" includes some sick humor (his name is Mort and he works as Death's apprentice; get it?). It starts with Mort, a young human, being apprenticed to Death when he can't get a job anywhere else and meeting Death's adopted daughter). A bizarre romance ensues with a perhaps happy or perhaps just funny ending.
This is the fourth of Pratchett's 39 Discworld books, which are all among those that Britons rate as their all-time favorites. I highly recommend this book, but read "The Colour of Magic," "The Light Fantastic" and "Equal Rites" first to better understand the background on Discworld.

discworld submitted by unknown on August 10, 2013, 10:16pm Mort is an awkward young man who bungles everything he attempts. When his father decides to send him off to be an apprentice, he gets only one offer - from the Grim Reaper himself. It seems like a good job to Mort: free room and board and a secure position in a business that will never run out of clientele. He doesn't even need to die to take the job. Soon Mort is doing some of the reaping himself and he even seems to be gaining maturity, self-confidence, and the ability to walk through walls. He falls in love. But can he manage to help Death harvest souls without making a complete mess of things?

This is the fourth in the wildly funny and inventive Discworld series and the first in the Death story line. Although Death made an appearance in the first three books, this time we are provided with a much closer look at Death's domain through details on his daily routine, his likes and dislikes, his household, and his horse. We meet his daughter and his faithful servant. There are hilarious scenes where Death tries out a few mortal pleasures to learn what they are all about. Only Pratchett could depict Death fly-fishing, getting drunk, or participating in a line dance. Above all else, we find out that Death's not such a bad fellow when we get to know him.

Pratchett continues to flesh out the geography, culture, and magic of Discworld. He addresses the self-healing nature of history and the relationship between fate and death. He presents a coronation, a bevy of bumbling wizards, a deadly beverage called scumble, a library of self-writing books of life, and a dangerous section of Ankh-Morpork known as the Shades. There is also a generous helping of wit, puns, and wicked satire. This is a great read!

Pretty Great submitted by Avliss on July 30, 2017, 9:45pm A great book - engaging and hilarious, like all of Terry Pratchett's works! My only point of dissension was that the romance before Mort and Ysabell felt a bit like an obvious and easy plot choice. But that was only a small dislike - otherwise, it's one of my favourite discworld novels!

First of Death Series and WORTH Reading submitted by AngelaA2 on August 14, 2020, 9:21pm The first of the DEATH Series within Discworld (Do yourself a favor and look up "Recommended Reading Order" on the interwebs - AND find the sub-plot you like. - I like Death, the the Nightwatch, the Witches, Tiffany Aching, Industrial Revolution etc.)

However, this is the most important for understand the Death Series. Typical of Pratchett - full of amazing details about Death and Discword and sets up "Hogwatch" and "Soul Music" two of my favorites.

Don’t skip this one! submitted by karmazz on June 27, 2022, 11:45am As all the books in the Discworld series, “Mort” has a smart sense of humor and detailed world building. Death is one of my favorite recurring characters in the series so I really enjoyed that this book delved more into his character and gave him a much larger role than he typically has. It also goes more into how people in this world experience death which is interesting to know as you read the rest of the series. If you’re just skipping around and not reading the whole series, I definitely recommend giving “Mort” a read.