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  • 54 of 54 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Olly_Plimsoll

    5 Stars Stop all the Clocks 01/11/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Humour, characterisation

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The stuff about the shopping trolleys

    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
  • 75 of 75 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    TallTone

    4 Stars THIS YOU WILL READ 20/12/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Death

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Without dying

    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
  • 44 of 44 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 mattygroves

    Member since 23/04/2001

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    5 Stars Death Rides a Pale Horse. Called Binky 12/07/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages DEATH. Who's afraid of a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe?

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The 'other' plot strand, though funny, isn't quite as strong (to me, anyway).

    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
  • 29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Azurel

    4 Stars WANTED, Death 10/08/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Fun and enjoyable to read

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You may miss some of the jokes if this is the first discworld book you read.

    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
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Bryn_Pearson

    5 Stars Death must go on 29/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages very funny, doesn't depend on parodying other bits of fiction

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Part of a very long series.

    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
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    KingHerrod

    3 Stars Can a chicken read 27/04/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Funny in places

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Over the top in places

    Terry Pratchett is one of this country’s most successful authors, in fact his series of books based on the fictional fantasy world, called Discworld has spawned its own cult following, with figures of the characters being produced, spin off books and a big fan club, with its own conventions. Now I have dabbled in these books before and thought yes these are Ok quite funny in places, but why all the fuss. So, having read three reviews on this book all spouting its greatness, I thought that I would give Reaper Man a try. In fact I have had this book finished for a week now and was stuck as ... more
  • 35 of 35 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Shortsharpshock

    5 Stars Reap what you sow 21/08/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Fast paced, dual plotted parody.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Settings a little sparse.

    As Death stalks the seemingly endless corridor he sees the rows of timers with the sands of life essence slowly trickling away. Out of the corner of the void that is his eye socket he notices something he has never encountered before. A small golden timer with the sands of life essence flowing rapidly from the top to the bottom of its dual bulbs. On closer inspection he sees five letters discreetly, yet undeniably printed across the timer. Those letters spell DEATH. How can this happen and what will happen to the life if there is no Death? "Reaper Man" is Terry Pratchett's eleventh novel in ... more
  • 43 of 44 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    CaptainDisaster

    4 Stars Don't fear the Reaper Man... 23/05/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Very funny, classic moments, great characters

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too short! Rather weak first half, picks up in second

    Discworld is a place where myths are real, where people are… well, people… where anything can happen… and where Death exists as an anthropomorphic personality, complete with black robes, scythe, and TALKS LIKE THIS (so you can always tell from a quick glance at the page if Death is on it or not!). He has a thirst for new experiences though, so he does all sorts of things that anthropomorphic representations aren't really supposed to do. One of these was to adopt a daughter. Another was to take on an apprentice. (These both happened in the afore-mentioned Mort). He also journeys down to earth ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Guzman

    5 Stars I wonder where Death has gone 10/04/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Blindingly funny this is a book I simply could not put down

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Should not be read by somebody new to the Discworld series of books as a lot of the humour could be lost

    With Reaper Man Terry Pratchett takes his insane sense of humour one step further, he allows Death to take a holiday. This strange event is all triggered by Death realising that his life timer is running out. Having his mortality suddenly thrust on him he decides enough is enough and that he deserves a nice holiday after all the quality reaping he has performed over the eons of existence he has seen. There’s just one problem though, people who are scheduled to die don’t in fact die. Enter stage left comes Windle Poons a decrepit wizard who strangely enough is to be the hero ... more
  • 15 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Orca88

    5 Stars Purely Magical. 07/11/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Its a great laugh and relief from reality

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Its not the longest book in the world...

    I have to say, I loved this book so forgive me if this appears to be a bit biased. This is the second book in the amazing Discworld series that features DEATH as a main character. The plot revolves around Death being made redundant from his current position, ie 'Being the Grim Reaper'. Temporarily, things stop dying which leads to a build up of life force, which in turn causes a whole cart load of mayhem. As the wizards sit at old Windle Poons' Deathday party and wonder why he hasn't died, a tall, unhealthily thin character called bill turns up at an old farm and is surprisingly good with a ... more
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