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Death takes a holiday

Mort: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett

January 10, 2021 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

After reading Hogfather and Good Omens for CBR10, (and thank you, Malin, for gifting them to me way back when) I meant to read more Pratchett. Those two books were enormously entertaining reads and Pratchett has written dozens of novels. The problem is knowing where to begin, since a number of the them form their own series within the Discworld. I consulted one of the many tables out there called “How to Read Pratchett” and opted to begin with the Death novels, the first of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR13, ElCicco, Fiction, Mort, Terry Pratchett

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR13, ElCicco, Fiction, Mort, Terry Pratchett ·
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“People don’t alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.”

May 29, 2015 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I’m continuing on with my march through the Discworld novels, and after having realized that I had perhaps gone too far down one path without veering off to some others in my review of Maskerade I decided to go back to the beginning and pick another tack to start down. Luckily for me my friend Alison had already lent me Mort, the fourth book in the series, and the first of the Death centric books. I was excited, I really liked when Death made his […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Death, discworld, faintingviolet, Mort, Terry Pratchett

faintingviolet's CBR7 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Death, discworld, faintingviolet, Mort, Terry Pratchett ·
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