Customer Reviews
Death ponders the meaning of life - By: Jeremy Bevan, 20 Dec 2008 
The one where the grim reaper takes an apprentice (called Mort), & becomes fascinated by him, but eventually sends him back to the world of the living. This is the first Discworld outing for the loveable, angst-ridden existentialist Death, whose encounter with Mort is the start of his growing fascination with the foibles & complexities of what it means to be human. Great fun from an increasingly thoughtful Pratchett, still very much on top comic form.
Mort - the best book about death? - By: Bridget O, 03 Jun 2008 Great book - Mort & Death's story is laugh out loud funny. Terry Pratchett is a genius
Mort!!!! Your Apprentice! - By: Alexandra Fleming, 27 May 2008 I did a play based on this book when I was at college. I had no idea what the story was all about so I brought the novel to get a little idea about the story & I wet meyself silly reading it! Sharp wit & great one liners. The characters are brilliant (I played Rincewind!) & because we perfomedin the round, it made it even more intimate for the audience to see more of the play & it worked. Great book. The Discworld series is fab! Buy it!
I didn't like it..................... - By: S. Bardi, 13 Feb 2008 
To be honest I was expecting a lot more from this book. I found it very "thin". I like the Witches better
Fourth in the Discworld Series - By: J. Chippindale, 19 Dec 2007 Terry Pratchett has become one of the most popular authors alive today & his popularity is richly deserved. But not even with his fertile mind could he ever have envisaged the heights to which his Discworld series would rise. This book first publishedin 1987 is the third of the Discworld novels & the author is really getting into his stridein the series that broke all records & continues to do so with new books being regularly published.
Pratchett's wit & imagination are second to none. Who else would have or could have thought of the Discworld, a world of mystery & magic sitting on the back of four elephants, whoin turn are standing on the back of the great turtle A'tuin the whole lot journeying through an eternal void. Are you with the plot so far?
Mort is the fourth bookin the Discworld series & encompasses Terry Pratchett's thoughts on death. Surely death is a very serious & not least, final event. Can death be funny? Well, when it gets the Pratchett treatment you may well laugh yourself to death.
Mort is like many teenagers, spotty & growing out of his clothes too quickly. His parents had always said get yourself a trade son, & you won't go far wrong. So Mort does just that, as apprentice to Death himself. The problem is that although he is willing enough, well reasonably willing, he is not very good at his job & bungles more than one fatal visitation.
Having said that taking on an apprentice & delegating a lot of his work has changed Death's `life' completely, if you see what I mean. Drinking & gambling are just two of the human traits that begin to interest Death. He even begins to look into why fun is fun. It could only happen on the Discworld & if you miss it, you will be sorry . . .
