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Reaper Man review

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  Terry Pratchett's 10th addition to the highly acclaimed Discworld series plunges the reader into an epic tale where Death his self has to face the fact that he is going to die.
  This instalment in the Discworld series starts with the all-seeing Auditors of the multiverse (similar to the universe only there is more of it) firing the physical embodiment of Death from his job as Grim Reaper. Death is given a short amount of time in which to live before he must die at the hands of the new Death. With the absence of the old Death, the rest of Pratchett's Discworld characters experience the after effects of Death's dismissal. 130 year old wizard Windle Poons is unable to cross into the afterlife and the surplus of living energy creates a strange manifestation of shockingly useful wire trolleys in addition to the apparently inexplicable amounts of extra "stuff" (e.g Snow Globes) flying around. It's up to Windle and his new undead friends at a Dead Rights group to discover the origins of the trolleys, while Death maintains a day job on a farm awaiting his inevitable show down with the new Grim Reaper.
  Written using Pratchett's familiar yet well received humour, Reaper Man does not fail to provoke reoccurring laughter through out. With a cast of characters including, a she-werewolf, a vampire "by marriage", and a Banshee who sends letters rather than screaming, this book is filled with irony of a silly kind.
  
  This book excels as a fantasy/comedy adventure that actually strains your brain in places in order to cope with the intensity of some of the comic situations...