Mort

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Mort (2008, Penguin Random House)

320 pages

English language

Published Oct. 12, 2008 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-4090-0049-5
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4 stars (1 review)

Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.

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4 stars

Terry Pratchett is what I’ve been missing when reading Douglas Adams. Mort is not just witty, but actually quite touching and even frightening. The humour seems somehow profound, for example when Death explains that everyone gets what they think is coming for them, because “it’s so much neater that way”. This light-hearted fun actually opens up a philosophical can of worms: If I expect a heavenly afterlife together with my family, but my brother expects to be rotting in hell, is the brother in heaven actually my brother? He can’t be, but did I then actually get what I expected? This dilemma is even touched upon later. I much prefer this humour to cliché nihilism.

Subjects

  • Discworld (imaginary place), fiction
  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Fiction, humorous, general