Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series started out as a collection of gosh-wow humourous adventures on a flat world carried through space on the back of elephants. As Pratchett has matured as a writer, the characters have grown deeper, the plots have grown stronger and the themes have started to verge on the literary. Reaper Man marks a bit of a watershed in the series as, although it is full of wizards and undead and animated compost heaps, it also contains a lot of thoughtful prose about fate, time, life and the erosion of community spirit due to out-of-town shopping centres. No, really. The ... more

This time I’m armed. With Quotes. “Reaper Man” is the tenth instalment of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld collection; if you haven’t read the previous nine, then don’t worry, you’ll be finding the time later. And then you’ll be searching for the next fifteen or so. And since the man is still not dead, you’ll find yourself as addicted as the rest of us in keeping up with the goings-on in a world not so much resembling the watched ball but the half-time refreshment. No-one has died yet from a case of the Pratchetts, but there have certainly been a few near scrapes. And anyway, there are surely worse ... more

Imagine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Imagine a world. The world is a flat disc. It’s supported on the backs of four elephants, which are, in turn, carried through space standing on the shell of a Turtle. The tooth fairy is real, dragons breath fire, oceans tumble off the rim of the world, and DEATH is a seven-foot-tall skeleton, wrapped in a cloak of absolute darkness, wielding a scythe and riding a pale horse. Called Binky. Truly. This world is Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. On this world, magic works, and the world really is flat (and those on the world that disbelieve that are wrong, for ... more

This is one of many discworld books, and, as with the other books the story is set in a fantasy world called The Discworld. The discworld is a huge disc set on the back of four elephants who in turn stand on the back of a space turtle. This place does, at times seem remarkably like earth both in the countries and the attitudes of its inhabitants. The discworld is populated by a wide variety of the usual fantasy creatures, sometimes with an unusual but humorous twist such as the vampire who is into near fatal flash photography (a character from The Truth). In Reaper Man there are two separate ... more

How on earth am I going to convey enough about all the plots and characters in this novel without actualy typing in most of a book's worth of review? This is an excellent and very full book. I only hope I can do it some sort of justice. Pratchett's discworld series is now very long indeed. The seting is a fantasy world - The Discworld, a large disc supported by four elephants who stand on the back of a giant turtle. The place often bears an uncanny resemblance to earth, the rest of the time it bears a strange resemblance to Shakespeare and a whole host of fantasy novels. (Pratchett having a ... more