Books where Death is a prominent character?
Books where Death is a prominent character?
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Funeral home logistics book
You're not funny.
I laughed
The Master and Margherta
a bunch of Terry Pratchett's works
Was going to suggest this. I also remember a couple of Piers Anthony books where death was the protagonist, but I don’t remember them as being terribly good
The Black Rabbit in Watership Down is well done. Nicely balanced between malevolent and beneficent.
In Based on a True Story, Norm encounters Death in a bar and manages to get the better of him. Maybe.
Death always tops the fans polls ranking Pratchett characters. He's pretty good.
I like Pratchett but he jumped the shark a little for me with the Death of rats. A little too silly even for my tastes. Would still highly recommend however
Puss in Boots 2
You can't read a movie
Everything with a narrative.
Unclay is really good. Cheeky brits argueing with death whose just trying to do his job
Any stories where Death takes a vacation?
The Terry Pratchett books and Piers Anthony books mentioned earlier interestingly enough.
Piers Anthony Xanth series is kino his other work is pleb/pedo tier
I’m pretty sure I read most of his corpus when I was a teen but your assessment seems correct from what I remember. On a Pale Horse (and perhaps others in that series) is the specific book I was referring to and with regards to the other anon’s question the trope of death being on a vacation or otherwise unavailable for whatever reason seems a common one.
It wad my question, I like the theme and Ive read on a pale horse; I even bought two of the other books in the series. Death on vacation is pretty comfy. Theres the outer limits with George Castanza as Death, Meet Joe Black with Brad Pitt. It brings to mind certain ethical concerns.
Nice. I wish there were more books on the subject that didn’t have to resort to what amounts to a bit of a tired cliche at this point but I fear that we humans just aren’t terribly creative. Death goes grocery shopping? Death catches a baseball game? I dunno
one of the Discworld novels. Can't remember which one.
The mahabharata
I'd say probably a few Puranas too but I haven't read any yet
A very nice webtoon called Apocalyptic Horseplay.
the book thief, obviously
Every single book ever written
ROMANCE DEL ENAMORADO Y LA MUERTE
Un sueño soñaba anoche soñito del alma mía,
soñaba con mis amores, que en mis brazos los tenía.
Vi entrar señora tan blanca, muy más que la nieve fría.
—¿Por dónde has entrado, amor? ¿Cómo has entrado, mi vida?
Las puertas están cerradas, ventanas y celosías.
—No onions el amor, amante: la Muerte que Dios te envía.
—¡Ay, Muerte tan rigurosa, déjame vivir un día!
—Un día no puede ser, una hora tienes de vida.
Muy deprisa se calzaba, más deprisa se vestía;
ya se va para la calle, en donde su amor vivía.
—¡Ábreme la puerta, blanca, ábreme la puerta, niña!
—¿Cómo te podré yo abrir si la ocasión no es venida?
Mi padre no fue al palacio, mi madre no está dormida.
—Si no me abres esta noche, ya no me abrirás, querida;
la Muerte me está buscando, junto a ti vida sería.
—Vete bajo la ventana donde labraba y cosía,
te echaré cordón de seda para que subas arriba,
y si el cordón no alcanzare, mis trenzas añadiría.
La fina seda se rompe; la muerte que allí venía:
—Vamos, el enamorado, que la hora ya está cumplida.
>no onions
no onions*
>no onions
no s-o-y*