Mort (Death, #1) (Discworld, #4)

by Terry Pratchett

Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.

After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice...

• ISBN10: 0061020680
• ISBN13: 9780061020681
• Publish Date: 6 February 2001 (first published 12 November 1987)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: HarperTorch
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 243
• Language: English

Reviews

[layawaydragon]

HIGHLIGHTS MADE WHILE READING

The words came straight from his stomach without the intervention of his brain.


...by the time it got to The Shades even an agnostic could have walked across it.

Logic would have said all that, if only Logic hadn't taken the night off too.

He didn't quite know what had come over him, but he was enjoying it.

Mort felt that they slept like cats, with one eye open.

He tried to shut his eyes but the pictures in the darkness behind his eyelids were so vivid that he opened them again.

The trumpets of command had become the piccolos of supplication.

There was no opening, and the motor of his anger wouldn't last.

[deermoss]

Death is a great character and I love his appearances in the other books. My one gripe was with Mort being so set on saving Princess Keli even though he barely knew her. It was a little too hard to believe for me. It made the middle part a slow read, though I really enjoyed the beginning and end.

[Mercy]

4.5/5