Roy Adams reviewed Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #11)
The interesting afterlife of Wizard Poons
5 stars
DEATH is still my favorite character.
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Published Oct. 27, 2022 by Transworld.
Reaper Man
Discworld, #11
4 stars
(3 reviews)
Inside every living person is a dead person waiting to get out.’
Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality for the heinous crime of developing...a personality. Sent to live like everyone else, Death takes a new name and begins working as a farmhand. He’s got the scythe already, after all.
And for humanity, Death is just...gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. If Death doesn’t come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime?
You can’t have the undead wandering about like lost souls-there’s no telling what might happen. Particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living…
Meadhbh Dhommnail reviewed Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #11)
What Can The Harvest Hope For?
5 stars
Reaper Man was the first Discworld novel I ever read, and one of the ones I have read the most often, but I haven't read it since either my mother or Sir Pterry died.
It was good to read it again, after having known the grief of losing mom. Comforting. Such insight into death, and Death, and what it means to know that life has to come to an end. This remains one of my favorite Discworld Novels, and it is unquestionably one of the most profound.
But Terry always delivered even the hard lessons with a nice dose of laughter.
