nicanical
Mort is cozy and charming. I like the dry levity of Death's personification, and the lighthearted worldbuilding. Mort's pluckiness in spite of his naivete endears him. While I don't find the style of satire here to be particularly funny, this didn't distract from the story.
Terry Pratchett's prose is largely straightforward with a warm, playful narrator. However, I had to backtrack some because he is sometimes wordy and explains too much—the latter might be what neutered a lot of the humor for me.
I actually tried to start in publication order with The Colour of Magic. Its weakness as an entry to the series is apparently well-known. That book put me off Discworld for a few years. Fortunately Mort rehabilitated the series for me.
Mort is cozy and charming. I like the dry levity of Death's personification, and the lighthearted worldbuilding. Mort's pluckiness in spite of his naivete endears him. While I don't find the style of satire here to be particularly funny, this didn't distract from the story.
Terry Pratchett's prose is largely straightforward with a warm, playful narrator. However, I had to backtrack some because he is sometimes wordy and explains too much—the latter might be what neutered a lot of the humor for me.
I actually tried to start in publication order with The Colour of Magic. Its weakness as an entry to the series is apparently well-known. That book put me off Discworld for a few years. Fortunately Mort rehabilitated the series for me.