Death Trilogy - Terry Pratchett

Advantages: A character so different from what you would expect, loads of laughs and witty comebacks, excellent stroylines.
Disadvantages: None, as far as I can see.

Terry Pratchett portrays Death (a.k.a The Grim Reaper), as a much maligned and misunderstood yet loveable skellington, deep down inside, and not as what is ultimately the most feared myth of our consciousness. As you can imagine, he is simply a skeleton in a long black cowl, but interestingly enough, his character is personified, mirrored off human beings: he has a house (albeit in the between dimension of life and death), with a bath that has four ...
...University who tried to cheat Death because he didn’t want to die), a daughter called Ysabel (who is fat and annoying and likes pink), and a horse called Binky (pardon me for saying that I find that the most mind-bending name for Death’s horse ever imaginable.) Our man Death has a penchant for take-away curry, tends to suffer a bit from pensive introspective analysis, depression, and should be the last ‘anomorphic personification’(i.e ... Read review

Advantages: funny, surprising, memorable
Disadvantages: not enough of them

...to the strange, quirky personality Death has (loves cats, tries anything once), these stories amuse, entertain, and frequently surprise a reader. You follow Death through his daily 'life' and watch all the trouble he gets into as he takes an assistant or a holiday or tries to do any one of the many things us mortals take for granted. Must be a gland thing. The stories are accessable to readers of all ages, but adults would definitely find them more ... Read review

Advantages: Death's Wit
Disadvantages: It's hardback, heavier than paperback.

Death has always been my favourite character, and so when I saw that there was a Death Trilogy out I had to have it. Death it most definitely Pratchett's wittiest character and in Mort he is even better, learning the effects of alcohol, note Death has no feelings usually but decides to find out about "fun" when he hires an apprentice, Mort to take over, unfortunately all goes wrong when Mort falls in love with one of Death's "clients". In Reaper ...
...on a farm, leaving all of those meant to die, in a sort of in between stage, not living but then again not dead. Soul Music is a great book about Death's granddaughter, Susan and a new kind of music that has hit the Discworld, called "Music with Rocks In", which gets a little out of hand! ... Read review