I Read Books: Reaper Man

Reaper Man

Death, back at work after his semi-serious attempt at retiring in Mort, finds himself being fired for being too individual. The Auditors who like everything to be neat don’t like his idiosyncratic ways, his occasional lapses and even bending the rules.

With him retired, he decides to take it easy and find out what life is all about, ending up hiring on for the harvest as Bill Door in a rural community. Some events takes place there, the usual ones though there is a touch of excitement, and some of it is a rather pointed metaphor.

Meanwhile Windle Poons the oldest wizard dies, but comes back as a zombie, and joins an undead rights activist group after the other wizards can’t put him to rest. But all this not-dying has led to an extra amount of life hanging about and it takes on a sinister form of its own.

There are some thoughts on death and Death and responsibility and how cities live and die. Also good jokes.

Read This: For some amusing times seeing what human life looks like from the outside
Don’t Read This: Death is not a joking matter.