The fourth Discworld novel is the first to put Death at the centre, and his pairing with an unpromising country apprentice is where the comedy lives. The wit arrives line after line, and some readers have happily begun the series here. Some see the marks of an early work: the way certain characters develop, the women above all, does not quite convince them; others find the story amusing rather than gripping.

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Mort is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the character Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels. The title is the name of its main character, and is also a play on words: in French, mort means "death" or "dead"; the French-language edition is titled Mortimer.

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The sources average 8.3 across 1,733 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 92% of the weight and the score stays at 8.3 — the Humour average of 7.8 barely moves it.