This is my first exposure to the new narrations. I can't tell you how many times I have gone through this story and every time I do so, I feel as if I read or hear something else. I love Sir Pratchett's books, I love to read them over and over and over again and Reaper Man is no exception. Don't hesitate, don't think it might be too short for one credit's worth. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this.īuy it. The first book in the Discworld series- The Colour of Magic-was published in 1983. The Discworld novels can be listened to in any order, but Reaper Man is the second book in the Death series. Particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living… You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls-there's no telling what might happen. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. He's got the scythe already, after all.Īnd for humanity, Death is just…gone. Sent to live like everyone else, Death takes a new name and begins working as a farmhand. 'Inside every living person is a dead person waiting to get out.'ĭeath has been fired by the Auditors of Reality for the heinous crime of developing…a personality. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan. BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy ( Love Actually Pirates of the Caribbean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz ( Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Reaper Man is the second book in the Death series.The audiobook of Reaper Man is narrated by the BAFTA award-winning actor Sian Clifford ( Fleabag Vanity Fair Quiz). To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork's undead and underemployed set off to find Death and save the world for the living(and everybody else, of course). The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University-home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners-Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. Now Death is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.īut like every cutback in an important public service, Death's demise soon leads to chaos and unrest-literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons.

Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. But that was before Death started pondering the existential. They say there are only two things you can count on. The eleventh installment in the Discworld fantasy series from New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett nothing short of magical.' -Chicago Tribune

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett