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Reaper Man Paperback – International Edition, July 4, 2005

by Terry Pratchett (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 8,392 ratings
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In the eleventh Discworld novel, Death is missing – presumed . . . er . . . gone.

Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn.
Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There’s a harvest to be gathered in.
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  1. Part of series
    Discworld
  2. Print length
    289 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Corgi
  5. Publication date
    July 4, 2005
  6. Dimensions
    5.04 x 0.88 x 7.92 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0552152951
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0552152952
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Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today and the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. His triology for young readers, The Bromeliad is being adapted into an animated movie.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corgi (July 4, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 289 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0552152951
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0552152952
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.04 x 0.88 x 7.92 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 8,392 ratings

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Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was fifteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. In 1987 he turned to writing full time, and has not looked back since. To date there are a total of 36 books in the Discworld series, of which four (so far) are written for children. The first of these children's books, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal. A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller, and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback (Harper Torch, 2006) and trade paperback (Harper Paperbacks, 2006). Terry's latest book, Nation, a non-Discworld standalone YA novel was published in October of 2008 and was an instant New York Times and London Times bestseller. Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received four honorary doctorates from the Universities of Warwick, Portsmouth, Bath, and Bristol. His acclaimed novels have sold more than 55 million copies (give or take a few million) and have been translated into 36 languages. Terry Pratchett lived in England with his family, and spent too much time at his word processor. Some of Terry's accolades include: The Carnegie Medal, Locus Awards, the Mythopoetic Award, ALA Notable Books for Children, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Book Sense 76 Pick, Prometheus Award and the British Fantasy Award.

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful edition of an amazing book. It’s a shame it arrived damaged.
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A beautiful edition of an amazing book. It’s a shame it arrived damaged.
This is a great book by a fantastic author, one of my favorite discworld novels. So you can imagine my disappointment when it arrived damaged. The corners look torn and bent and there are dent marks along the top of the cover. A shame since the design is so beautiful.
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Stephen Cisneros
5.0 out of 5 stars Solid Book, Solid Seller
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2023
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This was a pretty fun read which fleshes out the Discworld Death quite nicely (pun intended). As with the previous Discworld books (I'm new to the series), it's worth checking out, either separately or as part of a larger readthrough of the series. If you want a more in-depth assessment, check out other people's reviews; there are some really insightful ones and I'm not sure I can add that much more

The actual book arrived in great condition and arrived in reasonable time, given I ordered it right during the winter holidays. I usually don't care too much about the vendor, especially with books, but they reached out to make sure the book arrived in good condition; given the recent weather in my area this was a probably a good call. Good customer service is always nice to experience
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nature of Death
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2024
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Entertaining and Poignant, Death deals both like a force of nature as well as a person discovering what it means to die.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Who Said Death Couldn't be Funny?
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2019
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Let me say, first off, that Terry Pratchett novels aren’t for those who like their literature spoon-fed. They are for mature readers only. At least those who like to fancy themselves as mature, as I do on rare occasions.

In reading Terry Pratchett I learned early on that there would be times when I would have absolutely no idea what he was talking about. At first I rather self-righteously dismissed these moments as poor writing on his part, when in fact the problem was me. Mr. Pratchett knew EXACTLY what he was writing. I just wasn’t smart enough to figure it out.

Even today reading one of his books is like putting together a very complicated puzzle of say, the New York City skyline at night, during a blizzard, that’s unfortunately missing a few key pieces. This was especially true in the first half of REAPER MAN—indeed, perhaps even the first two-thirds of the book—and there were times when I simply gave up and moved on with the sure and certain knowledge that at some point (hopefully in the very near future) my brain would catch up with his.

And then there were his characters. Perfect. Unique. Enormously entertaining. In short, no one, and I do mean no one, writes them better than Mr. Pratchett. I would take any of them to lunch. A few I’d have home for dinner. Some I would even serve my best wine, although I would keep a wary eye on them afterwards.

And speaking of Mr. Pratchett’s characters, let me interrupt this review to make a quick editorial comment: It takes a very intelligent writer to write unintelligent people so well, AND make them entertaining at the same time. And when it comes to writing such characters Mr. Pratchett is a literary Einstein—or at least Einstein’s love child.

And then there are Sir (he is knighted after all) Pratchett’s plots. Here I must fault him, and I shutter to do so, as I couldn’t in my wildest dreams write as beautifully as he does. Still . . . there are times when he could have used a literary ruler across the knuckles and some brave editor exclaiming, “Terry, please, enough already! Quit meandering about and be done with it!”

Yes, he does run on a bit sometimes, sort of like I’m doing at the moment, so let me sum up:

Read REAPER MAN.

That’s it. Just read it.

Indeed, do yourself an enormous favor and read anything and everything Terry Pratchett has ever written, including that thing he wrote and published when he was just thirteen—the cheeky bugger.

And if you still need further encouragement to read REAPER MAN, imagine Shakespeare’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, but instead of being a treatise on Love, it’s a treatise on Death. But not sad, somber, rather unentertaining Death. It’s Death as a awkward wallflower. Death as a shy introvert who’s never courted a girl and would like to try it out just to see what the fuss is all about.

Trust me, you’ll have fun. And if you don’t, I’ll refund every penny you’ve paid for this review.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of Discworld
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
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Do not read this book first if you are new to the Discworld. Death is in every Discworld book and it will be helpful to get to know him before diving into Reaper Man. This book is best if you have context.
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Keith rafferty
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic , Terry Pratchett on mortality
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024
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I love love love Terry pratchett's mind. Sarcasm , irony , wordplay...all backed up with heart. The ending actually brought tears to my eyes
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J. Edgar Mihelic, MA, MA, MBA
5.0 out of 5 stars An unqualified recommendation
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2011
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The last few weeks, my reading has been monopolized by the mind of Terry Pratchett. I have been sucked into the Discworld, and I am just fine with that. I sought out experts on which order to read the books, since there is no one straight linear way to read the books.

I read the entire sequence centered on Death (and his extended family) first, since my introduction to the world of the Disc was the movie version of _Hogfather_.

I bought the first one, _Mort_, just to see if I would like it. I liked it well enough; I bought the next two books in the series on the Death story-arc. A quarter of the way through the second book, I bought the final two books of the arc.

I neared the end of one of those books and I bought the first three books from the "Guards" story-arc. At this point, I have only read one of those books, the first _Guards, Guards_. I was pleased, since I have to admit that I was a bit worried about the continuity of quality between story-arcs. Was I just interested in the character of Death, or did I like the world as a whole?

It turns out that I like the world as a whole, and this is a huge strength of Pratchett. I want to learn about all the inhabitants and read all the stories, no matter how tangential. I don't usually keep many books in my wish list, but it is now filled up with Discworld books. He builds a world like Vonnegut did. There are many familiar elements of the world we inhabit but there is the magic element that rips from genre fiction: what Vonnegut did with science-fiction, Pratchett does with fantasy elements.

There are a couple of things about the series generally that I really enjoyed. The first is what you try to develop as a writer, a unique voice. I've been struggling on finding the right word to really describe what I would characterize as Pratchett's voice. It is arch and tongue-in-cheek and just fun if you've read enough. He's a post-modern Tolkien, but that's a little off.

Secondly, he is funny, and he's not afraid to go for the easy joke. There are puns-galore, if you like that sort of thing. I happen to. There is one very memorable one that he just sort of sneaks in during _Soul Music_. He takes the reader 90% of the way to the pay-off but allows the slow dawning to set on the reader, so that a bad pun feels like it was done masterfully. Which it is, it really is.

If I had to make a critique of the books in the series that I have read so far is that I have read them too fast. My wife often tells me to slow down and enjoy the books you like, but I seldom listen to her. I should have here. There have been a couple of times that I enjoying the ride so much, I didn't even bother to remember what I had just read. I had to go and reread the last 50 pages of _Guards, Guards_ because of this. I enjoyed it too much.

Otherwise, this is an unqualified recommendation for the Discworld books. Spend some time there, you won't regret it.
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Christopher M.
4.0 out of 5 stars You know what they say about fine print?
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2022
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This is a very good read, with Pratchett's humor, empathy for, and understanding of the human (and non-human) condition shining. His characters are brilliant. The Kindle version has two problems. The paragraphing is not always correct, so it becomes hard to recognize who is speaking. The second, and larger (ironically) problem is the tiny typeface of the footnotes and the asterixis that lead one to the footnotes. The asterixis are hard to spot because they are tiny, and the footnotes are very hard to read because they are written in tiny letters. This ought to be fixed.
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Raven Stinson
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Discworld
Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2023
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An amazing book.
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Tom A.
5.0 out of 5 stars Greatness
Reviewed in Sweden on March 29, 2024
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I can't get enough of the Death series and look forward to the next book. So much great conversational humor and funny situations
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suzie q
5.0 out of 5 stars always a good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2024
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Terry Pritchett never fails to please. Though you know the familiar of his stories they are all so different. This story was so very good and so very different. He is sadly missed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars eines der besten
Reviewed in Germany on August 24, 2022
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Ich mag die Bücher über death. Herrlich lakonisch, einsilbig und direkt. Eine einzigartige Sichtweise auf das Leben. Die Anspielung auf Shopping Center vor der Stadt sind grandios.
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Havovi Wadia
5.0 out of 5 stars Warm and witty
Reviewed in India on May 16, 2022
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Just one of my favourites this one. It's bizarre in bits (the pink tubing, the trolleys!), but at its heart it's a warm and witty read
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