Reaper Man (Discworld #11) Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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Original Title:	Reaper Man
ISBN:	0552152951 (ISBN13: 9780552152952)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Discworld #11, Discworld - Death #02
Characters:	Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler, DEATH, The Bursar, The Librarian, Auditors of Reality, Renata Flitworth, Windle Poons, Reg Shoe, Death of Rats, Mustrum Ridcully, Senior Wrangler, Lecturer in Recent Runes, Lupine, Ludmilla Cake, Mrs. Cake, Schleppel, Mr. Ixolite, Fred Colon, Dean (Terry Pratchett), Azrael (Terry Pratchett), Arthur Winkings, Doreen Winkings
Setting:	Discworld Ankh-Morpork

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'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It can't just stop happening.'

But it can. And it has. So what happens after death is now less of a philosophical question than a question of actual reality. On the Disc, as here, they need Death. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls. There's no telling what might happen, particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living...

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Title	:	Reaper Man (Discworld #11)
Author	:	Terry Pratchett
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2005 by Corgi (first published May 1991)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Humor. Comedy. Science Fiction Fantasy. Audiobook. Death

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Just finished this whilst running and all the wonderful insightful thoughts I'd had about it over the past few weeks escape me as I sit exhausted yet happy. Reaper Man is the second novel that focuses on Death. This time he has been shorn of his anthropomorphic designation and sentenced to a short life on the Disc as punishment for becoming too individual. Those pesky Auditors make their Discworld debut (as do a whole raft of wonderfully fun creations including many new species in Reg Shoe's

He's done it again.My favourite of all of the Discworld novels.Death is a fascinating character, and seeing his strain of humanity just makes him all the more so.Reaper Man is HILARIOUS. Death is so awkward, so unsure of himself in the realm of the living. And when your time is running out, you want to experience everything life has to offer. And when you've never lived, maybe the basics ARE the most important parts of life.

...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...With Death off gallivanting around, Discworld residents discover that eternal life ain't all it's cracked up to be. Others just want those dead people to GO AWAY ALREADY!Perhaps a support group is in order?This entry in the series has EVERYTHING - action, adventure, thrills, chills, and romance, in addition to the usual amount of rampant silliness one has come to expect from Pratchett, who manages to prove once and for all that WORDS CAN

Death has retired. Which might be a problem.Death is by far my favourite character in the Discworld, and it feels especially poignant to read his stories now following the death of Terry Pratchett. There's just a small amount of melancholy that resonates from the pages. That said, I really enjoyed this and it made me laugh a fair few times. The wit and humour just can't be replicated by anyone else, and this just feels so British and wonderful.The scenes with Bill Door are, obviously, my

Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn't see the point of believing, of going around saying "O great table, without whom we are as naught." Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe in them or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way

If I could steal credit for a book and claim it as my own, Reaper Man would most likely be it. This is the point, I think, where the Discworld novels stopped being entertaining light reading, and really became literature. It's a very subtle shift from the little parodies of science fiction and fantasy conventions of things like The Light Fantastic to the rich satire of a book like Jingo. Behind the story of Death being fired for having developed a personality, there's a clever little parable

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... "I want more Death" is what I spent most of this book thinking. 60% of this was about Windle Poons and other wizards and I just wasn't into the silly randomness of the problems they were dealing with. The "life force" issues felt too much like the alchemy issues in Moving Pictures, and I just couldn't get into that one.I wanted to experience more of Death's life on the farm, and his whole side of things. I liked The