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La Mort ens arriba a tots. Quan li va arribar a Morthimer, li va oferir una feina. Després d'haver-se assegurat que no era obligatori estar mort, Morth va acceptar. Tanmateix, aviat va comprovar que les responsabilitats de ser aprenent de La Mort no es barrejaven fàcilment amb els anhels personals.… (més)
PitcherBooks: While Howard's Cabal is a Necromancer (one who can raise the dead - in a fashion) And Pratchett's DEATH is the embodiment of death (which comes to us all)... The commonality is really that wonderful quirky British humor. Pratchett is an old favorite of mine and I have read every one of his books. Howard is my new favorite and I plan to read every one of his books. If you like one, odds are you'll totally enjoy the other...… (més)
Zaklog: Although American, not British, Christopher Moore has a very similar sense of humor to Pratchett's. And if you like a story about an unsuspecting, innocent (and often clumsy) man accidentally becoming the Grim Reaper, you'll probably like Moore's book as well. Another wonderful characteristic the two authors share is their ability to combine a bizarre sense of humor with very serious moral subjects.
So once you finish the newest Pratchett novel, be sure to check out Christopher Moore.… (més)
As with all terry prachetts discworld series Mort is full of wit, humor and great creativity, death needs an apprentice and mort is the lucky victim ( )
For me this is the first Discworld book that really feels like a Discworld book. All the favorite Pratchettisms are here. Great characters, asides that aren't asides but are asides, and fantastic humor all wrapped up in a flat world package.
You could probably start with this book without losing much although I think having read either the previous one or having started with the first book makes this one special. Death really fills out his character here, also, since he's one of the stars. Pratchett has removed the bits like Death trying to get revenge on Rincewind and made him an anthropomorphic personification who is beyond such human pettiness.
I liked it better when Death had larger small caps when he spoke but it is what it is. ( )
Death decides he needs an apprentice. And so he takes on the teen-aged Mort, failed farmer's son. Mort can readily handle parts of the job, like taking care of the horse but balks at the injustice of early deaths. He cannot learn that Death does not cause death, he is just present to help the soul move on. So he tries to interfere with some pretty strange results.
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This is the bright candlelit room where the lifetimers are stored - shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for every living person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past.
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There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing.
‘[Death] doesn’t like wizards and witches much,’ Mort volunteered. ‘Nobody likes a smartass,’ she said with some satisfaction. ‘We give him trouble, you see. Priests don’t, so he likes priests.’ ‘He’s never said,’ said Mort. ‘Ah. They’re always telling folk how much better it’s going to be when they’re dead. We tell them it could be pretty good right here if only they’d put their minds to it.’
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La Mort ens arriba a tots. Quan li va arribar a Morthimer, li va oferir una feina. Després d'haver-se assegurat que no era obligatori estar mort, Morth va acceptar. Tanmateix, aviat va comprovar que les responsabilitats de ser aprenent de La Mort no es barrejaven fàcilment amb els anhels personals.