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A review by kizzia
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
5.0
The eleventh discworld book is, if you are reading them in character groupings, also the second book in the DEATH series. It’s certainly my favourite of the books where DEATH takes the lead.
There are the usual clever puns and some inspired creativity around out of town shopping malls and industrialisation but this is a book about endings, about dying, and about living, that offers such a deep dive into what it means to be human and, more importantly, to be a compassionate human, that it takes my breath away and makes me cry every single time I read it.
“WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?”
It is also the first book that makes mention what us fans have come to call the Dark Morris, and just for that alone it has a special place in Discworld history.
There are the usual clever puns and some inspired creativity around out of town shopping malls and industrialisation but this is a book about endings, about dying, and about living, that offers such a deep dive into what it means to be human and, more importantly, to be a compassionate human, that it takes my breath away and makes me cry every single time I read it.
“WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?”
It is also the first book that makes mention what us fans have come to call the Dark Morris, and just for that alone it has a special place in Discworld history.