Death is
found guilty of having a personality and so it becomes mortal.
Death can
be considered, strangely enough, one of the main characters of the discworld series.
For starter it appeared on almost every book and all his appearances have been
somewhat memorable.
For the
uninitiated Death is a strangely sympathetic character. He somehow manages to
do his day job without being scary at all and he really has got a quite
distinctive personality.
He is my
certainly my favorite character but honestly on this regard this book fails to
deliver. Terry Pratchett simply didn’t have enough stuff to say to sustain a
whole novel and so he interject death plot with another one, set in Ankh-Morpok,
about a bizarre invasion and an undying wizard.
Not only he
needed two mainly unrelated plots to make a book, those plots also aren’t very
strong. Death one is of course the strongest but even that one manages to drag
along a lot in the middle bit. The other one feels mainly like filler.
On the
other hand the signature Discworld humor is still present in spades and some of
the scenes show so much creativity that they are really worth the price of the
book all by themselves.
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