Reaper Man: A Discworld NovelIgnite your imagination with this immersive fantasy read! "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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... trying to blow into a party squeaker. “He also made the banana dip. I hope someone eats it soon.” He leaned down. “Can I help you to some more potato salad?” he said, in the loud deliberate voice used for talking to imbeciles and old ...
... tried to work out the joke. The Bursar looked surreptitiously at his watch. It was now twenty minutes past nine. Windle Poons made a speech. It was long and rambling and disjointed and went on about the good old days and he seemed to ...
... trying to program a video recorder from an instruction manual translated from Japanese into Dutch by a Korean rice-husker— like, in fact, a man finding out what total self-control really means, Windle Poons lurched onward. The wizards ...
... d go back to his room and play darts all night long and leave at five in the morning to go duck hunting. He shouted at people. He tried tojolly them along.And he hardly ever wore proper robes. He'd persuaded Mrs. Whitlow, REAPER MAN 37.
... tried it. “Maybe he'll die,” they told one another hopefully, as they watched him try to break the crust on the ... trying to explain to you after two minutes is probably important and anything they give up after a mere minute or so ...
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