Mort and Sourcery

Mort and Sourcery by Terry Pratchett, 243 and 260 pages

Mort and Sourcery have nothing in common except that they both take place in the Discworld. For that very reason I am going to talk about both of them together. Of course if you have read much of Pratchett, that makes perfect sense, or at least semi blemished sense.

Mort is about a guy named Mort. Mort is a scraggly kid who does not seem to be good at anything except reading. Unfortunately reading won't land him an apprenticeship or a future job. Or so everyone thought. Death thought otherwise. By that I don't mean that he died, but that the personification that is Death accepted him as his apprentice. While learning a new trade is rough, most jobs don't result in the destruction of reality if done wrong, as Mort is about to learn. This is the start of the Death story line.

Sourcery is about a type of magic that only crops up every couple thousand years. Every time it does rear its destructive head people get turned into weird things, wizards start battling wizards, and the world almost gets destroyed. In Sourcery we do see the reemergence of Rincewind. You might remember as the failed wizzard(as his hat says) from the start of the series.

I quite like reading Pratchett. It seems that everything he writes comes out hilariously good and these are no exception. I eagerly look forward to reading more of the Discworld series. Though I am not sure how many more times the world can survive almost being destroyed.