Reaper Man: A Discworld World"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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... Mind you, you didn't get the sense now that you used to get in the old days. And they let the 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 ...
... MINDS OF THE LIVING, ALBERT. “Oh.” Albert looked relieved. “You don't happen to know what he'll be like, do you?” No. “Perhaps I'd better, you know, clean the place up a bit, get an inventory prepared, that sort of thing?” GOOD IDEA ...
... mind, as luck would have it, of the story of the cow with three wooden legs. It appears that there was this cow, and—” The Bursar let his mind wander. He knew the story. The Archchancellor always mucked up the punch line, and in any ...
... minds of the wizards of Unseen University. What was being thought by most of the wizards was: this is terrible, is it really old Windle in there, he was such a sweet old buffer, how can we get rid of it? How can we get rid of it? What ...
... mind felt clearer than it had ever done. And control seemed to be getting easier, too. He hardly had to bother about the whole respiratory thing, the spleen seemed to be working after a fashion, the senses were operating at full speed ...
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