Reaper Man: A Discworld Novel"Engaging, surreal satire. . . nothing short of magical." —Chicago Tribune The eleventh installment in the Discworld fantasy series from New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett — in which Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality, and Ankh-Morpork's undead and underemployed set off to find him. They say there are only two things you can count on. But that was before Death started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now Death is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use. But like every cutback in an important public service, Death's demise soon leads to chaos and unrest—literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University—home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners—Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork's undead and underemployed set off to find Death and save the world for the living(and everybody else, of course). The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Reaper Man is the second book in the Death series. The Death collection includes:
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... University— —home of magic, wizardry and big dinners— —was also going to die. He knew it, in a frail and shaky sort of way. Of course, he mused, as he wheeled his wheelchair over the flagstones toward his ground-floor study, in a ...
... University be run by mere boys now. In the old days it had been run by proper wizards, great big men built like barges, the kinds of wizards you could look up to. Then suddenly they'd all gone off somewhere and Windle was being ...
... orders of magic, but practically no wizards wanted to spend lots of time in an officeshuffling bits of paper and doing sums. All the paperwork of the University tended to accumulate in the Bursar's of- fice, which REAPER MAN 21.
A Discworld Novel Terry Pratchett. University tended to accumulate in the Bursar's of- fice, which meant that he went to bed tired at nights but at least slept soundly and didn't have to check very hard for unexpected scorpions in his ...
... University's Great Hall, because while the wizards stand right behind the philosophy as outlined above, you don't become a successful wizard by getting up gods' noses even if those noses only exist in an ethereal or metaphorical sense ...
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