Reaper Man

Everything Sense ( English title: Reaper Man ) is a novel by Terry Pratchett. It is the eleventh Discworld novel and was published in 1991. It is the second Discworld novel, with death as relevant protagonists. The title is a tribute to Alex Cox 's cult film Repo Man.

Action

Because the Grim Reaper itself that began to be interested in the fate that he has only motionless and neutral pick up after their demise, conspire his clients, the auditors, against him, after death, the grim reaper of Discworld, sent into retirement and even mortal will. The margin until the arrival of a successor uses death and sets the work. He wants to finally learn what it means to have time and to waste them if necessary. In a small village, he hired himself as a servant, working under the pseudonym " Bill Door " at Widow Flink value. He gains deep insights into the life, thought, and the humor of the people, giving him at the village pub finally brings even the honorary title of Good Old Bill.

In the mean while showing the absence of death unpleasant side effects. The life energy all dead dammed to themselves and the world of the inanimate begins to penetrate. Pants run their owners thereof, sofas to become self- nails and screws refuse to work and tries to finally do a trans-dimensional cities parasite to settle down in the form of an American shopping mall, in Ankh- Morpork. These difficulties remain all over the freshly deceased wizard Windle Poons hang. Since it 's death apparently does not want to pick up, it returns to its 130 -year-old body and is reluctant to zombie. With an indecisive group of neurotic Undead he prepares the parasitic spook an end.

Meanwhile, death prepares to meet his successor. After he has witnessed from its proud vanity, he could no longer remember, without a struggle to leave the field and moves with his undead self-help group in the last battle.

Expenditure

  • All Sense: A Discworld novel. Manhattan -Verlag (October 3, 2011) ISBN 978-344254-696-1
  • As ( Abridged ) Audiobook, Read by: Rufus Beck, ISBN 3-86604-720-7.
  • Unabridged download, spokesman Volker Niederfahrenhorst; New Translation of Regina Rawlinson
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