Il tristo mietitore

Check out my new youtube channel where I show my instant reactions to reading fantasy books seconds after I finish the book. A wonderful addition to the Discworld universe with an extremely unique plotline While this book is not at the level of "laugh out loud" funny that some other Discworld book

How can you not like Death? HOW, INDEED? I'm sorry, did someone say something? NEVER MIND. I'LL ONLY BE HERE A MOMENT. Oh, okay then. Anyway, as I was...erk...

The second DEATH is as hilarious as the first one, this time positioning the friendly reaper in a perfect setting for having philosophical and deep thoughts about human nature and life in general. The auditors are a mixture of bureaucracy, monotony, surveillance, and total order, each reader might fi Leggi tutto

Today would have been Sir Terry's 70th birthday. As some here know, I've put off reading the series because I still tear up when thinking of this great man and the terrible loss his death meant. Especially his books featuring Death as the main character are hard to read because their messages are hit Leggi tutto

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...” "I want more Death" is what I spent most of this book thinking. 60% of this was about Windle Poons and other wizards and I just wasn't into the silly randomness of the problems they were dealing with. The "life force" Leggi tutto

Re-Read 6/26/24: Each time I read these Discworlds (and this is #3) I find something new, or rather, there is something new in me that wants to read it a different way. So this time I'm enjoying it much more than my second time and closer to my first, and the best of all three. That is to say, I SO GE Leggi tutto

This Discworld's book has significant features of the others: parody, irony, interesting plot and funny characters. But somehow I didn't find it as hilarious and exciting as the other books.