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Terry Pratchett: Mort (Paperback, 2001, HarperTorch) 4 stars

Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.

Review of 'Mort' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I have trouble with this book.
I love Rincewind. And I love Rincewind the most when Death shows up. Hence Death is like my favourite character too (it's DEATH). I alwyas wanted to read this book. So I first tried the german translation, it's bad, I gave up, several times and then I forgot about it. But then on Easter Sunday I was like "ha would feel like a joke to listen to it now" and I got the Audiobook. But the quality of the Audio book is super disturbing. It's really bad. Like it has been recorded 1980's and then copied from an old radio. It was also badly read. I did not like the narrator at all. But it was impossible to read, so it had to be the audiobook. BUT YOU JUST CAN'T DO DEATH JUSTICE ON AN AUDIOBOOK (well you could, if you rerecord and use special effects, maybe)

But then I also realized that Mort is just very all over the place. Some jokes are great yes (if you are not too distracted by the quality and you can actually understand something), but at some point in the end, the storyline gets super messy. Like oldschool 1980's comedy messy. And with the bad audiobook i did nearly give up until I decided I will push through the last hour.

I hope at some point they will rerecord it. It's such a waste, honestly.