**Warning**
This thread is for discussing Mort in some depth. If you haven’t read the book then read on at your own risk – or, better still, go and read the book and join in the fun.
For those of us that are going to join in the discussion, here are a few guidelines:
Please feel free to make comparisons to other Discworld books, making sure you identify the book and the passage you are referring to. Others may not be as familiar with the book you are referencing, so think before you post.
Sometimes we’ll need to agree to disagree – only Terry knows for sure what he was thinking when he wrote the books and individuals members may have widely different interpretations – so try to keep the discussion friendly.
We may be discussing a book that you don’t much care for – don’t be put off joining in the discussion. If you didn’t care for the book, then that in itself is a good topic for discussion.
Please note: there is no time limit to this discussion. Please feel free to add to it at any time - especially if you've just read the book.
And finally:
Please endeavour to keep the discussion on topic. If necessary I will step in and steer it back to the original topic – so no digressions please!
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Mort by Terry Pratchett
Originally published 1987
When Death decides, for reasons of his own, to take on an apprentice, he chooses young Mortimer. But Mort has got his own ideas about the fairness and justice of death and takes a human approach to saving a damsel in distress with potentially dire consequences.
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Mort is an interesting book – number 4 in the DW series and possibly the first that feels like a proper ‘Discworld’ book.
Terry takes a serious subject – humanity’s concept of Death and what comes next, and writes a satire dealing with the issues. He writes about our fears of death and even the joyful release that death can bring. He discusses the Human need to believe there is something that survives after we shuffle off this mortal coil.
I like this one and always have. But what did you think?
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Want to write the introduction for the next discussion (The Last Continent)? PM me and let me know if you’d like to – first come first served.
This thread is for discussing Mort in some depth. If you haven’t read the book then read on at your own risk – or, better still, go and read the book and join in the fun.
For those of us that are going to join in the discussion, here are a few guidelines:
Please feel free to make comparisons to other Discworld books, making sure you identify the book and the passage you are referring to. Others may not be as familiar with the book you are referencing, so think before you post.
Sometimes we’ll need to agree to disagree – only Terry knows for sure what he was thinking when he wrote the books and individuals members may have widely different interpretations – so try to keep the discussion friendly.
We may be discussing a book that you don’t much care for – don’t be put off joining in the discussion. If you didn’t care for the book, then that in itself is a good topic for discussion.
Please note: there is no time limit to this discussion. Please feel free to add to it at any time - especially if you've just read the book.
And finally:
Please endeavour to keep the discussion on topic. If necessary I will step in and steer it back to the original topic – so no digressions please!
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Mort by Terry Pratchett
Originally published 1987
When Death decides, for reasons of his own, to take on an apprentice, he chooses young Mortimer. But Mort has got his own ideas about the fairness and justice of death and takes a human approach to saving a damsel in distress with potentially dire consequences.
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Mort is an interesting book – number 4 in the DW series and possibly the first that feels like a proper ‘Discworld’ book.
Terry takes a serious subject – humanity’s concept of Death and what comes next, and writes a satire dealing with the issues. He writes about our fears of death and even the joyful release that death can bring. He discusses the Human need to believe there is something that survives after we shuffle off this mortal coil.
I like this one and always have. But what did you think?
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Want to write the introduction for the next discussion (The Last Continent)? PM me and let me know if you’d like to – first come first served.
