Paperback, 289 pages
English language
Published July 2, 2005 by Corgi.
This is a weird one. Something about Death geting fired, and snow globes that hatch into malls, which are actually predators that suck the life out of cities. Well, they actually hatch into shopping trolleys that build malls like bees build hives. Like I said, it's weird.
DEATH gets a life.....
short plot description: when DEATH gets retired (they let him keep the horse for his good service) he is going to discover about the high cost of living (apologies to Neil Gaiman) and soon learns that life is a habit awfully hard to break.
Meanwhile elsewhere on Discworld nothing is dying until a new Death arises but the wizard Windle Poons (130 years old and looking forward to the afterlife) has no intention to take the situation lying down....
my thoughts: one of my favourite Pratchett novels. Pratchett brillantly mixes light humour, slapstick and serious philosophical questions into one wonderful book. Not many authors manage to make you sympathize with DEATH (Neil Gaiman also comes to mind) but here you find yourself actually rooting for DEATH.
And pulling off a happy ending where actually everyone dies is one thing you don't see too often...
my recommendation: …
DEATH gets a life.....
short plot description: when DEATH gets retired (they let him keep the horse for his good service) he is going to discover about the high cost of living (apologies to Neil Gaiman) and soon learns that life is a habit awfully hard to break.
Meanwhile elsewhere on Discworld nothing is dying until a new Death arises but the wizard Windle Poons (130 years old and looking forward to the afterlife) has no intention to take the situation lying down....
my thoughts: one of my favourite Pratchett novels. Pratchett brillantly mixes light humour, slapstick and serious philosophical questions into one wonderful book. Not many authors manage to make you sympathize with DEATH (Neil Gaiman also comes to mind) but here you find yourself actually rooting for DEATH.
And pulling off a happy ending where actually everyone dies is one thing you don't see too often...
my recommendation: for everyone who doesn't mind his light reading actually a bit dark and not that light.
