Reaper Man - BookWyrm - Personal Sized

eBook, 352 pages

English language

Published Oct. 13, 2009 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-180705-3

(1 review)

They say there are only two things you can count on ...

But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.

But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH's demise soon leads to chaos and unrest -- literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University -- home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners -- Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork's undead …

They say there are only two things you can count on ...

But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.

But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH's demise soon leads to chaos and unrest -- literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University -- home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners -- Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork's undead and underemployed set off to find DEATH and save the world for the living (and everybody else, of course).

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Richard Degenne reviewed Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

As good as #Discworld gets

5 stars

Content warning Slight spoilers ahead

I loved Reaper Man. The distinctive style of #Pratchett is as strong as ever, and with three intertwined narrative threads, that means three times as many colorful characters, ridiculous puns and over-the-top situations.

On top of that, I feel like Reaper Man addresses some deeper existential topics compared to the previous books and, with the three narrations, we get three different points of view of the same topic, which makes up a reading experience that is both incredibly funny and thought-provoking enough to be noteworthy.