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

by Terry Pratchett

Neil Gaiman (Introduction)

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. For Mort however, it is about to become one of the tools of his trade. From henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. He has received an offer he can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse and being dead isn't compulsory. It's the dream job until he discovers that it can be a killer on his love life...

• ISBN13: 9780552152617
• Publish Date: 1 September 2004 (first published 12 November 1987)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 7 June 2016
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Imprint: Corgi Books
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 320
• 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