Mort: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett (MOBI)

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Terry Pratchett’s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can’t refuse — especially since being, well, dead isn’t compulsory.As Death’s apprentice, he’ll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won’t need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he’d ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.

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⭐Originally posted at Fantasy Literature.Mort is the fourth of Terry Pratchett’s DISCWORLD novels. It stands alone, meaning that you don’t need to read the previous novels to enjoy Mort. It’s better than the previous novels, too, so it might be a good place for new readers to start.Mortimer is a naïve but pensive — and therefore slightly odd — young man who doesn’t fit in with his farming community. It looks like he’s going to be jobless until Death arrives and chooses him as an apprentice. Why does Death need an apprentice? He has become bored with his immortal life and wants to travel to Ankh-Morpork so he can experience some humanity.After only a little bit of training, Mort is left in charge. His job is to collect the souls of people who are about to depart the mortal world. When Mort becomes infatuated with a princess who’s about to die, he can’t stop himself from interfering with her death and he manages to “royally” screw things up. With the help of Death’s adopted daughter Ysabell, Mort must figure out how to put the princess and the world back right again, all without neglecting to do his job.Unlike the three previous DISCWORLD novels, Pratchett has almost everything right in Mort. The characters are quirky and vibrant, especially Death. (Almost all of the characters are new to this story, though Rincewind the bumbling wizard makes a cameo appearance.) The plot of Mort is exciting and fast-moving, and the humor is truly funny. Especially entertaining is Death’s search for happiness. He tries many of the things he sees humans doing for fun (e.g., getting drunk, gambling, doing the Conga at a party) and can’t figure out why they’re so appealing. He keeps telling himself he’s having FUN, but he can’t quite convince himself. Pratchett is really making FUN of us, of course, and most readers will probably find themselves wondering, along with Death, what exactly “FUN” is.There’s a completely unbelievable romance in Mort, but that’s unlikely to bother most readers — we’re not reading Terry Pratchett for romance, are we? In fact, the more ridiculous, the better in a DISCWORLD novel, and Mort is definitely ridiculous.There are several allusions to our own world in Mort, making us wonder just what the relationship is between our world and the Discworld. I think some readers will be intrigued by these allusions while others will find that they momentarily throw the reader out of the story.I listened to the audio version of Mort which was produced by Isis Audio Books and narrated by Nigel Planer who does a wonderful job, as usual.

⭐I never write reviews, but the typos and errors in this e-book drove me crazy. There were numerous places where dialog had an open quotation mark and no closed mark, some lines were repeated at the end of paragraphs, and the footnotes did not appear at all in-line so I didn’t see them until I got to the end of the book (out of context). I could have lived with the quotation mark/capitalization issues, but there are numerous places in the book where Pratchett is trying to show how two of the characters are changing, and he uses a different dialog formatting to demonstrate this, sometimes mid-sentence. This is super confusing with all these weird formatting issues. There were places where I think lines of dialog had line breaks in the middle but no closing quotation marks, so I wasn’t positive if the next line was dialog or not. And it was all over, not just in parts. I opened other books on my Kindle, thinking maybe there was some glitch in the device, but the other books do not appear to have any errors.On top of all of that. On top of it. The Kindle thinks the beginning of the dang book is 55% in. I didn’t notice this and was confused about what was going on, but trusted Pratchett and rolled with it for a while, assuming things weren’t being explained for a reason, until I went to see if these typos were actually intentional by comparing it to the free sample, and thereby discovered… I had read the middle of the book first. Again, I checked my other books–I own over 100, and while I did not check them all, I do read about a book a week so I think I would notice–and this appears to be the only one on my device that has glitches, so I have to assume it’s a problem with the Kindle version.If you’re debating the Kindle version or buying the paperback, then go paperback!!!!

⭐Well, this may be the best book I’ve ever read in my entire life. It’s so good that I don’t know what to do (other than leave this review). Just incredible. This is my favorite book by my favorite author. I’m now going to sit in complete silence and wonder how to better fit my life to this book. (Audible performance is good, but the voice in your head will probably be better what with all of stylistic print effects like ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ Dᴇᴀᴛʜ “ᴛᴀʟᴋs”.

⭐This is widely considered one of the best Discworld books–and how could it not be? It’s the first one to feature Death as one of the main characters. He’s appeared in the books before this one, of course, but now we’re able to get a sense of his true personality: authoritative, terrifying, and yet inexplicably gentle. In this book he hires an everyman (or everyboy) named Mort, an apprentice who takes over as grim reaper for a little while. As one should expect, it doesn’t go too well.I found this one to be the easiest to get into compared to the ones before, all of which largely had to do with wizardry and the goings-on at the Unseen University. I like wizards and they do obligatorily occupy a number of scenes in this book, but their antics are a bit samey throughout the seriies. In this, the reader mostly follows the eponymous character, Mort, who’s knowledge of the world is just about equal to our own–even if this is the reader’s first Discworld novel.My only problem with the book is that, in a properly Pratchetty fashion, it picks up a whole load of subplots as it goes on…maybe too many. I recall being considerably confused with how the story resolves itself. And as with few of his other books, like The Light Fantastic, the overabundance of humor gets to be a bit cloying: the joke formula gets a bit repetitive, thus sacrificing much of the charm. All in all, however, I’d recommend this one as the best introductory book in the series.

⭐‘Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. ….‘Terry Pratchett’s ‘Mort’ was originally published in 1987. It is Book 4 of The Discworld series and Book 1 of the Death series. I had originally read its paperback edition in 1988 though have long wanted to reread. I complemented my reading with its unabridged audiobook narrated by Nigel Planer.After failing to be chosen at an apprentice fayre, Mort and his father are stopped on the road by a black-cloaked skeleton. Death, the Grim Reaper of the Discworld, offers Mort an apprenticeship. He accepts as there’s job security, free board, use of the company horse, and best of all being dead isn’t compulsory.Mort slowly adapts to his new responsibilities yet on his first solo mission gets himself into a spot of bother. He has to correct the situation before the boss finds out and receives unexpected assistance from Death’s daughter, Ysabell.Death is one of my favourite Discworld characters and this novel was just so much fun. I was frequently in tears of laughter. The banter between teenagers Mort and Ysabell was especially amusing.The Discworld always delights and Terry Pratchett was so skilled in sending up various fantasy tropes alongside social satire. I plan to reread others in the series in the near future.On a side note, I was pleased to see that the publishers have retained Josh Kirby’s iconic cover art.Highly recommended.

⭐Mort is a young lad who gets a job as an apprentice for Death on Discworld. This is the story of how he gets on as he learns his craft.I have NEVER read a Terry Pratchett novel before and was curious to find out why he had become a top selling author. Fantasy novels are NOT my regular reading genre but like Real Ales, I like to try different ones to see if I like them.There are 40 novels in the Discworld series, they do NOT have to be read in sequence and are all stand-alones. Why did I chose Discworld #4 as my first book? Unashamedly, it was on special offer for just 99p and the price was right!Mort was written in 1987, so I wondered what a book written over 30 years ago has to offer. Well, Discworld is a fantasy planet, so very different from Earth. Discworld is flat and rides on the back of four giant elephants who stand on the shell of the enormous star turtle Great A’Tuin, and which is bounded by a waterfall that cascades endlessly into space.Mort is a fantasy tale involving wizards, magic and spells. There are 5 central characters in this tale, the main being Mort, a young lad moving into the world of work. Death is his boss and the tone of his speech is one of authority and appears “IN CAPITALS”. His daughter also has a role to play, so has a princess and a wizard. There is one animal taking a vital role, it is a horse. This is not any old horse but a special horse that belongs to Death which can fly into the air to travel extensive distances across Discland at great speed. This horse has great power and is very strong because later in the story Mort, Death’s daughter, the princess and the wizard climb onto its back and fly away! Oh yeah, whatever, this is a fantasy.No time period is mentioned but the feel is of the dark middle ages. There is no mention of technology or modern infrastructures, far far away from our modern obsession with social media, smartphones, cars and CCTV. Yet the dialogue and attitudes between characters is relatively contemporary. For example…The piercing blue eyes glittered at him. He looked back like a nocturnal rabbit trying to outstare the headlights of a sixteen-wheeled artic whose driver is a twelve-hour caffeine freak outrunning the tachometers of hell.… Terry Pratchett uses an extensive vocabulary in this novel, it is NOT a children’s book and he uses some obscure and very old words. For a fantasy novel, this range of vocabulary makes for an intelligent and articulate adult read.Terry creates his scenes with great skill and has a talent for great storytelling. For example…Ankh- Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound.….There are odds bits of dry humour scattered through this book, for example…‘It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,’ he said. ‘Have you thought of going into teaching?’…So Terry wrote this novel and how did I rate it as a reading experience?Ah, I thought a change from my usual genres of reading would be a refreshing and delightful change. I found Terry’s writing talent was GOOD but this story LACKED DEPTH. I think Mort is a lightweight tale, which if it was on TV, people would have one eye on the screen and talk over the whole programme. I did not get much out of reading this book. I found the entertainment value was POOR and just continued reading to the very end because that is the type of guy I am. For such a top selling and popular author I was disappointed. I think that Mort is a POOR read and only gets 2 stars from me. I am glad I only paid 99p for this book and that I now know what pleases some people.

⭐Brilliant Discworld book, it’s about my favorite Pratchett character Death. You explore Death’s struggle to explore if he is suited to a life of doing something else apart from being the Grim Reaper, He shows that he’s always looking for the meaning of being human as he longs to understand the meaning of being alive, He takes on an Apprentice called Mort (Spanish for Death) so he can explore humanity and things go understandably wrong, hilarious.

⭐According to many, this is the book where the author really got into his stride with his Discworld novels, and that the first three were appetisers. I’m not sure about that. It certainly runs on well from the earlier books, and as usual, you can easily read it as a standalone, although having read the previous volumes, you have a bit of a headstart concerning Discworld, and some of its places and inhabitants. The main characters in this episode are Death – who we have met in previous stories – and Mort, to whom Death offers an apprenticeship. I won’t go into the story, as it would spoil it for you, but it is well written, well paced, and had – for me – a few geniune ‘laugh out loud’ moments.I have enjoyed all four books I have now read in the series, and although this one is perhaps a little better plotted and paced, I would urge you to read them in order, as they make more sense that way. There are some great characters – Death is a wonderful creation – and many events do actually make you stop and think. Certainly Discworld is imaginary, but imagined worlds always allow authors to reflect on our own, real world.

⭐Nothing that the late great Terry Pratchett did was poor. This is no exception.I started my Discworld journey with Mort nearly 25 years ago! I enjoyed it this time just as much as I did then. The characters are so vividly written and the Discworld is a truly humorous mirror of our own world.It saddens me to realise that there will never be another novel by Sir Terry, but being able to revisit the old books is a constant delight.I do have some on my kindle but I love the paper books too. You can’t take a kindle into the bath!If you’ve never had the chance to read any of these novels then Mort is a good place to start.

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