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LJ Idol Week 2: (Home Game)If it is any Consolation
Personified DEATH.
I like the DC / Vertigo version, the 'goth' girl who greets us when we enter the world (though most of us do not remember that meeting), and once more when you are leaving this life. Some beings meet her a few more times while they are alive. She does not tell anyone what is next, and your last meeting with her is the sound of wings, fluttering. She has stated that she was one of the first entities of The Endless, and she has said she will be around when this universe ends. She will put the chairs up on the tables, turn out the lights, and finally see what is next...
Discworld:
I NEED to read Sir Terry Pratchett's take on Death. He has a few books centered on Death, I think, and appears in others.I KNOW Sir Terry was a great author, I have read several of the Discworld books, but not the Death ones.
I NEED to read Sir Terry Pratchett's take on Death. He has a few books centered on Death, I think, and appears in others.I KNOW Sir Terry was a great author, I have read several of the Discworld books, but not the Death ones.
Incarnations of Immortality, by Piers Anthony
I think it is about time for me to reread of this series.
I think it is about time for me to reread of this series.
Riding a Pale Horse is the first one, about Death (1983)
Bearing an Hourglass is Time
(1984)
With a Tangled Skein is Fate
(1985)
Wielding a Red Sword is War
(1986)
Being a Green Mother: Nature / Gaia (1987)
There is a bit of a ... tone shift, I think is a good way to describe it, with the last 3.
For Love of Evil is Satan.
(1988)
And Eternity: Good / God. (1990)
And Eternity: Good / God. (1990)
And finally:
Under a Velvet Cloak : Nox (2009)
I've read the first 7, several times actually, did not find out about the final one until a few years ago. I have read several reviews on the final one, and they all mention it is an even more of a tone shift. and very sexual themes...
The world he created in Incarnations is interesting, but I don't know if I would want to live in it...
In this world, Death has to visit those people whose soul is so balanced between Good and Evil, that it will not rise to Heaven nor descend into Hell. They cannot actually die until he visits them and removes their soul from their body.
At one point, he refuses to take a soul tha is in balance, and basically goes on strike.
NOBODY can die until he takes that soul and sends it on it's way. (I don't remember details, but I think it ends up being a baby...)
I think Anthony describes someone burnt to a 'crisp' in a plane accident, with a large shard of glass through their lungs, Since they can't die, they are feeling all the agony you would expect.
If it is any consolation, he does eventually restart his job, people die and are finally out of their agaony.
In this world, Death has to visit those people whose soul is so balanced between Good and Evil, that it will not rise to Heaven nor descend into Hell. They cannot actually die until he visits them and removes their soul from their body.
At one point, he refuses to take a soul tha is in balance, and basically goes on strike.
NOBODY can die until he takes that soul and sends it on it's way. (I don't remember details, but I think it ends up being a baby...)
I think Anthony describes someone burnt to a 'crisp' in a plane accident, with a large shard of glass through their lungs, Since they can't die, they are feeling all the agony you would expect.
If it is any consolation, he does eventually restart his job, people die and are finally out of their agaony.