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Mort: Playtext (Discworld Novels (Paperback)) | 
| Authors: Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Corgi Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 344961
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 167
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0552144290
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780552144292
ASIN: 0552144290
Publication Date: May 2, 1996
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 Death ponders the meaning of life December 20, 2008
The one where the grim reaper takes an apprentice (called Mort), and becomes fascinated by him, but eventually sends him back to the world of the living. This is the first Discworld outing for the loveable, angst-ridden existentialist Death, whose encounter with Mort is the start of his growing fascination with the foibles and complexities of what it means to be human. Great fun from an increasingly thoughtful Pratchett, still very much on top comic form.
Mort - the best book about death? June 3, 2008
Great book - Mort and Death's story is laugh out loud funny. Terry Pratchett is a genius
Mort!!!! Your Apprentice! May 27, 2008
I did a play based on this book when I was at college. I had no idea what the story was all about so I brought the novel to get a little idea about the story and I wet meyself silly reading it! Sharp wit and great one liners. The characters are brilliant (I played Rincewind!) and because we perfomed in the round, it made it even more intimate for the audience to see more of the play and it worked. Great book. The Discworld series is fab! Buy it!
 I didn't like it..................... February 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
To be honest I was expecting a lot more from this book. I found it very "thin". I like the Witches better
Fourth in the Discworld Series December 19, 2007
Terry Pratchett has become one of the most popular authors alive today and his popularity is richly deserved. But not even with his fertile mind could he ever have envisaged the heights to which his Discworld series would rise. This book first published in 1987 is the third of the Discworld novels and the author is really getting into his stride in the series that broke all records and continues to do so with new books being regularly published.
Pratchett's wit and imagination are second to none. Who else would have or could have thought of the Discworld, a world of mystery and magic sitting on the back of four elephants, who in turn are standing on the back of the great turtle A'tuin the whole lot journeying through an eternal void. Are you with the plot so far?
Mort is the fourth book in the Discworld series and encompasses Terry Pratchett's thoughts on death. Surely death is a very serious and not least, final event. Can death be funny? Well, when it gets the Pratchett treatment you may well laugh yourself to death.
Mort is like many teenagers, spotty and growing out of his clothes too quickly. His parents had always said get yourself a trade son, and you won't go far wrong. So Mort does just that, as apprentice to Death himself. The problem is that although he is willing enough, well reasonably willing, he is not very good at his job and bungles more than one fatal visitation.
Having said that taking on an apprentice and delegating a lot of his work has changed Death's `life' completely, if you see what I mean. Drinking and gambling are just two of the human traits that begin to interest Death. He even begins to look into why fun is fun. It could only happen on the Discworld and if you miss it, you will be sorry . . .
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