Mort - Terry Pratchett Reviews

Mort was the book that started me reading Pratchett and is a book that makes such fun out of an idea that you'd never have imagined. The concept of Death needing an apprentice captures the imagination from the very start of this book. Added to that the bizarre character traits Pratchett gives him (He likes cats, enjoys curries and His ...  Read the complete review

Mort is part of a series of different stories that all take place on the discworld. A planet as you guessed it in the shape of a disk which is held on top of a giant turtle named great A tuin. Most of the books have a lot of humor in them and Mort has a bit of gloom in it as well as humor. The book starts off when Mort who is ...  Read the complete review

Mort is the fourth novel in the Discworld series. For those that don't know, the Discworld novels concern events on a flat world carried through space on the back of four elephants. These elephants are standing on the turtle, Great A'Tuin. The Discworld is a fantasy world, but a fantasy world ruled by surprisingly mundane laws. ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Mort - Terry Pratchett. ~ About the Author ~ Terry Pratchett is one of the best known of Fantasy writers out there. He began writing in 1983, and when I first began reading his books (I read his second novel The Light Fantastic just after publication) no-one really knew who he was! It couldn't be more different today, and ...  Read the complete review

Mort stands silently next to his father, the last remaining boy at the hiring fair. Approaching midnight it appears that no one is willing to take him on as an apprentice. His father told him all that thinking and reading of books put people off and perhaps he was right. Suddenly, a horse appears with a hooded figure aboard. Perhaps things ...  Read the complete review

A giant turtle slowly makes it's way across the vast emptiness that is space, and on it's meteor pocked shell stand four over-sized elephants, on whose backs rests the flat, circular, and highly magical Discworld. Discworld is world of heroes, heroines, witches and wizards, where magic is a very real part of life and DEATH may just come to collect ...  Read the complete review

As I write this there is a documentary currently showing on BBC1 called A Life of Grime which follows some real-life characters in their day to day jobs. The common thread is that while all their jobs are essential, not many of us would want to do them. Well, does catching rats, collecting rubbish or unblocking sewers appeal to you? ...  Read the complete review

If you?ve ever picked up and read a Terry Pratchett book then I?m sure you?ve been affected for the rest of your life, his books are very compulsive reading. He?s witty, hilarious, cheeky, intelligent and imaginative. He writes about The Discworld and has published numerous books and trilogies. Books of fantasy, witches, wizards, heroes, ...  Read the complete review

"I'm bored." I moaned to mum (I must have been too young at 11 to realise saying this was more than likely going to end up with me doing some chore or another) "I've got nothing to do." In response mum handed me a book. This marked an historical point in history. This is where my love affair with Terry ...  Read the complete review

JK Rowling has nothing on this... Terry Pratchett's seemingly endless Discworld series is forever being likened to the Hitchhiker's Guide books of the sadly missed Douglas Adams (hmmm... could one refer to it as a trilogy in twenty-something parts, I wonder?). The reason I bring this up is that in Adams' novels, Arthur Dent has the ...  Read the complete review

Are you sitting comfortably? . . . . . . . . . . . Ok then I will begin. I “discovered” Terry Pratchett about 7 years ago, Mort was actually the first discworld novel I read. Now I own all of Pratchett’s books and if you have never read them I implore you to try and I promise you will not look back. Anyway back to the ...  Read the complete review

I was bored one day back in 1993, I looked at my small bookshelf and realised I had read all my books to death (pardon the pun) and needed a change. I thought to myself, well I’ll pick myself up a new book and spend some quality time on the sofa. I had only been in England 6 months and I had never heard of Terry Pratchett, as his work had ...  Read the complete review

Well, a bit of a Patchett-athon recently so I thought I'd add and opinion about the 1st of his books that I'd read. I love Pratchett and find his books get funnier and funnier as I go through the series. Although Mort is the 8th in the Discworld series it is the 1st to be centred on Death. Currently available for £4.79 from BOL ...  Read the complete review

Death comes to everyone, that is the way of things. However, when Death came to Mort he offered him an apprenticeship. That is how things go on the Discworld. Death is getting bored with his work. There simply is no fun anymore in swinging his scythe and harvesting souls - when was the last time he had a holiday? People just ...  Read the complete review

If you're an ardent Discworld fan you'll know that the year's wait for each book can be torture. How do you get through it? Well I spend the time reading them all again - except the year that Harry Potter was big, but that's another story. Going back over the old ones is a little wierd, because there is a high degree of evolution ...  Read the complete review

Firstly, sorry about the bad pun in the title. By now, I think almost everyone has heard of Terry Pratchett and the Discworld series. And you can always tell those that haven't - they're the ones looking on bemusedly whilst their friend tells them about "this world on the back of a turtle, and there's a city called ...  Read the complete review

And now I confess my fanatical obsession with the Discworld (and any other Pratchett fiction, read Good Omens?) For those who don't know (do these people exist anymore?) the Discworld is not only an appropriately named world carried on the back of four celestial sized elephants, which in turn composes themselves ontop of a proportioned Turtle; ...  Read the complete review

I have been a fan of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series for a long time, in fact ever since a friend of mine at school lent me "The Colour of Magic" (thanks Wob, I still owe you one). However, with the series currently running to 26 novels (not counting the flat-earth experimentation of "Strata"), "Mort" remains ...  Read the complete review

This is a good book. Mort is about Death taking an apprentice, but not only that; it explores how deaths job will always be done, it’s just a question of who does it. It also “proves” that fate exists, to use a metaphor (or more accurately a simile)– it’s like the anthromorphic personification of the future ...  Read the complete review