{"id":6256,"date":"2015-03-19T15:39:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:39:16","slug":"reaper-man-terry-pratchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2015\/03\/19\/reaper-man-terry-pratchett\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaper Man — Terry Pratchett"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nReaper Man
\nTerry Pratchett
\n287 pages
\npublished in 1991
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\nEven before rereading the day after pTerry’s death, Reaper Man<\/cite> was mired in grieving for me. Because I reread it in 2012, the year after Sandra’s death, when I had fallen back on Pratchett’s Discworld<\/cite> series as comfort reading, something to lose yourself in and forget for a while. And then I hit Reaper Man<\/cite>, in which DEATH has been retired by the Auditors for having become too human, has to find a new living as BILL DOOR and a fragile, predoomed romance starts between him and Miss Flitworth, the never married widow he ends up working as a farmhand for. It’s a novel about death and life and humanity and the essence of it is captured by what DEATH argues at the climax of it:\n<\/p>\n

\nLORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Reaper Man Terry Pratchett 287 pages published in 1991 Even before rereading the day after pTerry’s death, Reaper Man was mired in grieving for me. Because I reread it in 2012, the year after Sandra’s death, when I had fallen back on Pratchett’s Discworld series as comfort reading, something to lose yourself in and forget […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,137],"tags":[2223,318],"class_list":["post-6256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-fantasy","tag-reaper-man","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6257,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions\/6257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}