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Mort | 
 enlarge | Author: Terry Pratchett
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publisher: Corgi Audio
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
Buy New: £7.82
You Save: £7.17 (48%)
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 113695
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 1
ISBN: 0552152250
EAN: 9780552152259
ASIN: 0552152250
Publication Date: October 8, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Mort -audio book (abridged) February 18, 2008
David Lazzari (Jerrabomberra NSW)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've rated this five stars and not 4 , which is what I'd have preferred to give to what is an abridged version of the excellent book. Why take off half a star? As another reviewer has said precisely because it is abridged but, being obviously of a more of a generous nature, I didn't have the heart to penalise neither the abridging editor nor Tony Robinson, hence the full rating.
Other than cost factors and effect on possible sales I wonder why they bother to abridge Pratchett's novels for audio books. I enjoy this version but would prefer that Mr Robinson's brilliant narration was extended to the full novel. I don't think the full novel would be less popular - I know I'd certainly buy it for the full reading.
The plot is simple but full of the usual Pratchett convolutions, sniggers, guffaws and smiles that make him such an enjoyable author: Death needs a break and must find an apprentice to ease his workload; Mort's available, keen but has a conscious. The story tells of the consequences.
Death is my favourite character in all the Discworld books; he's someone I'd really like to meet - but not necessarily only one time! My personal in-head version of all Pratchett characters have been much improved after listening to several Robinson read books. Tony Robinson, as a talented comic actor, uses his undoubted abilities to project real life to the all characters. Death sounds as world weary as all of us for no logical reasons; Mort at the start sounds young and gormless and as the character ages and experiences life and death the reader's voice changes and he sounds more convincingly Death-like.
If you can get the book then do yourself a favour. There are many gems that while not effecting the story do add to the time and so have been edited out of this version but are the icing on the cake of a wonderful book.
Conclusion: A very worthwhile purchase; great for travelling and relaxing anywhere.
Fourth in the Discworld Series February 9, 2008
J. Chippindale (England)
Terry Pratchett has become one of the most popular authors alive today and his popularity is richly deserved. But not even with his fertile mind could he ever have envisaged the heights to which his Discworld series would rise. This book first published in 1987 is the third of the Discworld novels and the author is really getting into his stride in the series that broke all records and continues to do so with new books being regularly published.
Pratchett's wit and imagination are second to none. Who else would have or could have thought of the Discworld, a world of mystery and magic sitting on the back of four elephants, who in turn are standing on the back of the great turtle A'tuin the whole lot journeying through an eternal void. Are you with the plot so far?
Mort is the fourth book in the Discworld series and encompasses Terry Pratchett's thoughts on death. Surely death is a very serious and not least, final event. Can death be funny? Well, when it gets the Pratchett treatment you may well laugh yourself to death.
Mort is like many teenagers, spotty and growing out of his clothes too quickly. His parents had always said get yourself a trade son, and you won't go far wrong. So Mort does just that, as apprentice to Death himself. The problem is that although he is willing enough, well reasonably willing, he is not very good at his job and bungles more than one fatal visitation.
Having said that taking on an apprentice and delegating a lot of his work has changed Death's `life' completely, if you see what I mean. Drinking and gambling are just two of the human traits that begin to interest Death. He even begins to look into why fun is fun. It could only happen on the Discworld and if you miss it, you will be sorry . . .
 An excellent addition to the Disc January 17, 2005
Volin (Sutton Coldfield, UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This re-release of Pratchett's Mort shows us why indeed the Discworld has become one of Britain's best loved series. Mort is the first book where Pratchett decides to show the reader an up close and personal view of Death, one of the more mysterious entities of the Disc. And how well he does it. The potrait of Death Pratchett paints is not that of the spectre of all evil but instead a rather eccentric gentleman who has seen rather too much of life. Ths is Pratchett does with some excellent wit: for example Death's horse is named Binky. The story itself is very well done, concentrating on Death and his new apprentice Mort. Mort cannot bring himself to do Death's job out of compassion and so ends up letting a dead princess live on. The masterpiece of this novel is the character of Death. Pratchett turns religious convention on its head, making Death far from evil. Indeed he actually makes you feel horribly sorry for Death and the reader will be moved emotionally by Pratchett's clever but subtle way of showing the actuality behind the myth. The reason I have not given this the 5 stars it deserves is because of its audio book status. While I enjoy audio books for when I am relaxing, I cannot give it 4 stars because a great deal has been abrigded from it - many of the sequences deemed unessential to the plot have been cut which is disappointing. However Tony Robinson does an excellent job as usual of narrating, giving all of the jokes a cynical edge which only enriches their comic value.
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