Mort is not, even slightly, Death. (Mort - Terry Pratchett)

Member Name: theevilsam

Product:	Mort - Terry Pratchett
Date:	19/07/09 (24 review reads)
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Advantages: The first novel in the Discworld series based around the personification of Death

Disadvantages: Mort is a bit of a wet twig.

Title - Mort

Main Characters

Mort - the hero
Ysabell - the pretty lady
Death - the Father
Albert - the stuck in his ways help at the Death Mansion

Plot Outline

Mort doesn't fit in at all on the farm. He is as Adrian mole would describe as an intellectual, constantly thinking weird thoughts. His father decides that farm work isn't for his son, and so takes him to the locale town for the apprenticeship fair.
Despite his best efforts Mort does not get an apprenticeship, until a skeleton on a white horse appears.

Death has decided to take a holiday so he trains Mort up and disappears. Hilarity, love and the questioning of ones self ensue with many a question that will delve deep into ones morals.

My Feelings

As the first of the death books this makes a great impression, stating that although death has no glands, and thus is incapable of emotion, he still loves his daughter Ysabell, and will do anything to make her happy. This book instills death as a favorite to Discworld readers, and contains some of the funniest dialogs of all the Discworld novels. 'be gone thou black and midnight hag'.
Death invites a different sort of humor. His dry wit is made even funnier by the lack of understanding of human subtleties.
I loved this book from start to end

In Summary

This is an amazingly funny Discworld novel with twists turns, love and Death at every corner.

An Evil.Sam review.

Summary: Death Gets a Slighltly soppy apprentice... hilarity ensues