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99. A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Sweet ghost love story.
100. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
A hilarious reread as I start my final exams. EXCITING AND NEW: NEW-TO-ME AUTHORS
1. The Secret of Lost Things
2. Going Postal Yep, never read Pratchett before.
3. Cranford Or Gaskell
4. Mr. Timothy
5. Lest Darkness Fall
6. The Tropic of Cancer Wasn't this the book Jerry held onto for all those years? ... Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
nonfiction: The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
March: fiction: Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
nonfiction: That Went Well by Terrell Harris Dougan
April: fiction: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
runner up: The Book Thief ... 98> Thanks ever so! I just read what appeals...:) I love all Pratchetts. Going Postal is my favorite. How can you not like characters named Moist Von Lipwig and Adorabelle Dearheart?
101. Marsbound Not one of the better novels of Joe Haldeman, but certainly an easy read.
102. T ... ... We had the same story (unlikely new character must save the city! Vetinari's machinations depend upon him/it!) as in Going Postal and the abomination that was Making Money (and, lets face it, Moving Pictures, The Truth, Feet of Clay, Thief of Time etc). We have beautiful-but-dim ... ... in a book you think makes a book into a romance. You could make a case for Great Expectations, or Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, or Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.
And there are indeed quite a few male writers writing Harlequin/Mills and Boon under female pseudonyms. At least one ... ... reread one of his books directly after reading it the first time (going from the last page back to the first). They were Going Postal and Making Money. Last night we went to an independent bookshop that specializes in mysteries. I picked up Going Postal by Terry Pratchett and Trick or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier. ... doesn't have a specific order but each sub-series does.
Here's the standard guide. It's missing Making Money (follows Going Postal) but is otherwise complete. So the starting point for that sub-series is Guards! Guards!.
 Famine in 50 Book Challenge : Famine's 2009 books (Aug 25, 2009, 11:28am) 37. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
38. God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
39. Going Postal - Terry Pratchett going postal Usually you wait a day or two, when the guesses slow down, before starting with the clues, Ook. You're doing fine.
Going Postal? going postal? Going Postal Going Postal film?! What?! I giggled like a silly person all the way through Going Postal. Making Money has been staring at me from the bedside table for the longest time, but I simply haven't had the chance to pick it up yet... I'm definitely looking forward to the Going Postal film adaptation, however...! ... and dwarves are important in this one. I LOVE the whole thing with Cheery, the first openly female dwarf.
10. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Reread, again. Moist von Lipwig, con ... going postal? ... but I'm doling it out in small doses to make it last longer. I really want to get access to Making Money. I listened to Going Postal (reading it in paper form now for the first time) but only read Making Money.
Oooh, and his Nation was reeeeeally really good. I don't think I would have ... ... can't get over my Terry Pratchett kick, and there are so many new books I also want to read! How come I'm back to reading Going Postal AGAIN when I've been waiting for Naamah's Kiss for a seriously long time? I'm also trying to get myself to read one of Pico Iyer's books. It looks really ... ... .09.
58. Campbell, Bruce. If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor. 338 pages. 5.25.09.
59. Pratchett, Terry. Going Postal. 377 pages. 5.28.09.
60. Moore, Alan and Dave Gibbons. Watchmen. 416 pages. 5.28.09.
61. Pratchett, Terry. Making Money. 394 pages. 5.29.09.
62. Harris, ... Going Postal?
59. Pratchett, Terry. Going Postal. 377 pages. 5.28.09.
60. Moore, Alan and Dave Gibbons. Watchmen. 416 pages. 5. ... ... they are almost always relatives in the same family.
Exceptions in the past few years include a newfound love of Terry Pratchett and Mervyn Peake.
Wattsian Ditto above! My favorites so far have been Soul Music and Going Postal... oh, and The Truth!!! THAT one made me laugh out loud a number of times. And I'll admit - I've never managed to finish Color of Magic! ... is seriously laking in Terry Pratchett books. Of those mentioned above, the library only has
The Wee Free Men and Going Postal in fact it only has 12 of the Discworld series between all 9 branches! *twitches* looks like I'm going to have to hit up Amazon or a couple used book stores ... you'll like Watersong..... lol, trying to be a little optomistic
Ohh I'm glad you recommended Guards, Guards! and Going Postal to be honest I wasn't sure how to quite tackle the whole Discworld series. I saw the sheer number of them and I quite sure my eyes popped out of my head. ... you where to start with his works if you ask, though the opinions vary somewhat. I'd say start with Guards, Guards! or Going Postal... but whatever you do, DON'T read them in the order Pratchett wrote them!!! They're not meant to be read that way!
...
Gaudy Night
The Screwtape Letters
Les Miserables
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Cotillion
A Room with a View
Going Postal
I'm half way through Barchester Towers, and I reckon that'll end up on the list too.
AUTHORS
PG Wodehouse
Dorothy L. Sayers
Georgette Heyer
Ant ... Going Postal? ... or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, or Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson. Or possibly Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. Or Leave it to Psmith by PG Wodehouse.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
Again I ask - ... ... list with the end of March - beginning of April.
1. Thud by Terry Pratchett
2. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
3. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
4. Laced by Carol Higgins Clark
5. Why Me by Donald Westlake Well Moving on, I'm almost finished with Monstrous Regiment and I finished Going Postal and Night Watch not too long ago. I'm loving Terry Pratchett more and more with each book. ... that shows the series order how the books relate to one another. It's missing Making Money which follows directly after Going Postal, I think it is also missing a Young Adult novel but I'm not too sure about that.
http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/the-discworld-reading-order ... ... weak. Kind of wish the characters, Neville and Luna, had bigger roles as well as the rest of the Hogwarts cast.
17. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Pratchett remains one of my favorite authors and this book is why. It was simply fantastic, timely, and above all funny. Moist von Lipwig ... Going Postal? First Adition hard cover of Going Postal by Terry Pratchett for £1. ... laughing and not only have trouble falling asleep to it but also have to keep quiet so I didn't bother my family. :-) Going Postal was only my second Discworld book, though I've read more of his YA titles. Finished another one.
21. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett - 377 pp
I picked this up after reading some messages here on LT and I loved it!
Bible reading:
16. Ruth - 3 pp
(and 19 pp for Judges) Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, I never tire of that story and of course The Truth by him is also great. The books are a fun read the first time and then the second and third time you start to understand his humor. Oh and Small Gods... I will stop at this point. My son is a fan of Rincewin ... Going back a bit, I haven't listened to any of the Pratchett books on audio. Is it as funny as it is in print? Going Postal was the first Pratchett I read and I was hooked. I just read Going Postal and am now into Making Money. I just wrote a blog post about how damned good Pratchett is at his fantasy satire formula. Really stellar writer. Going Postal? ... Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson
21. Rogue's Home by Hilari Bell
22. Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby
23. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (audio)
24. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Books read: 8
Books listened to: 1
GN/Manga count: 2
Books abandoned: none
... 23. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Category: Audiobooks
Moist von Lipwig, con man extraordinaire who unfortunately got caught, narrowly avoids dying...only to be practically forced into becoming Postmaster at the long-defunct Post Office of Anhk-Morpork. The task is, well, impossible - he ... 23. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (audio)
Moist von Lipwig, con man extraordinaire who unfortunately got caught, narrowly avoids dying...only to be practically forced into becoming Postmaster at the long-defunct Post Office of Anhk-Morpork. The task is, well, impossible - he has only two ... Currently in the middle of both Going Postal and Good Omens so far, I haven't got the events confused... but it will get even funnier when I do. :) ... as I read. 5 stars.
Currently slogging through (I mean reading) - The Brothers Karamazov
Currently listening to - Going Postal Going Postal? ... had already come out. 4.5 stars.
Currently reading - Krakatoa and The Brothers Karamazov
Currently listening to - Going Postal ... had already come out. 4.5 stars.
Currently reading - Krakatoa and The Brothers Karamazov
Currently listening to - Going Postal ... don't want to put it down! Rather a meandering plot, but I like the humor and the characters.
Also, still listening to Going Postal and reading Krakatoa, but that hasn't changed since January. :-) ... The Witches (who are in 7 books)
Small Gods which first features The History Monks (who are in 3 books)
and Going Postal which features Moist von Lipwig who is so far in 2 books.
Hope that helps you out some!!
going postal? Seems a lot to ask of just one book.
I suppose taking a printout of your LT author cloud would be cheating?
Going Postal would probably be as good as any for me.
As a slightly dog-eared aspiration, the phrase Glom of Nit seems quite apt. is it going postal? ... read. 4.5 stars.
Currently reading - Krakatoa, The Pleasure of Reading and Wicked
Currently listening to - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett ... read. 4.5 stars.
Currently reading - Krakatoa, The Pleasure of Reading and Wicked
Currently listening to - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett ... me want to write again. 5 stars.
Currently reading - Krakatoa and The Well of Lost Plots
Currently listening to - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett ... Suzanne Collins ****
5. 'The Language of Light' by Meg Waite Clayton ***.5
6. 'The Loop' by Joe Coomer ****
7. 'Going Postal' by Terry Pratchett ****
8. 'Maisie Dobbs' by Jacqueline Winspear *****
9. 'The Heretic's Daughter' by Kathleen Kent ***************
10.'The Talism ... ... today, because I had exactly 201 books! Yay!). Anyway, I accidentally uploaded duplicates of two books - The Truth and Going Postal, both by Terry Pratchett. When I tried to delete the duplicate, it deleted my review! Is there any way to get them back? It's only two reviews, but I have a ... Yes, there are MUCH better Pratchett books out there! I really enjoyed Going Postal, The Truth and Soul Music, they were hysterical! I wasn't a big fan of Hogfather either, if that helps. Give a different one of his books a try :) 5. Making Money by Terry Pratchett. This one I did not read as soon as it came out, because I had not been that fond of Going Postal, and the cast is the same. In light of recent financial developments, I thought I'd give it a try... it does not really get into finances, as such, though, more ... I think the first Pratchett I read was Soul Music... followed by Going Postal. From then on in, I was hooked... haven't yet tried reading them in order, but instead am reading them by character groupings. As far as I can tell (and just going on what my husband says, as he's read them all), they ... ... The Tenderness of Wolves. That and An Interpretation of Murder were probably my favourite reads of 2008, along with Going Postal and Making money. I'm sure you can find categories to shoehorn those into. ... 5/31/2009
27.Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life by Kathleen Norris 4 stars 5/27/2009
26. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett 4 stars 5/27/2009
25. Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 4.5 stars finished 5/22/2009
24. Great Horse Racing Myste ... ... Jodi Picoult - done
5. City of Bells by Elizabeth Goudge - done
6. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman - done
7. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett - done
8. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke - done
9. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman - done
Extra: L. M. Montgomery
1. Pat ... ... Music by Faye Kellerman 3 stars 4/21/2009
5. In the Woods by Tana French 4 stars 5/5/2009
6. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett 4 stars 5/27/2009
8.Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman 3.5 stars audiobook 6/7/2009
9. To Siberia by Per Petterson 3 ... ... yet is Making Money and I read the first chapter before I let my boyfriend read it and I've decided that I'll re-read Going Postal first so that the recent history will be fresh in my mind. So I'm not actually reading one right now, but I'm going to be traveling over the holidays and those ... ...
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
If you liked Going Postal...which I think is not one of Pratchett's better books...you may want to try a bit more. IMO, his books focused on Death, on Sam Vimes and the Tiffany Aching books are his best. ... Birkelund Oberbeck
5. (31) The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
6. (47) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
7. (61) Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
8. (63) Making Money - Terry Pratchett
9. (67) Notes from an Exhibition - Patrick Gale
10. (76) Stand into Danger - Alexander Kent ... ... favourites) and trying to choose as wide a range as possible:
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett (I had never read Pratchett before, and had three or four people keep on telling me to read this book; I finally caved, and loved it)
A Dams ... ... is on top of my list
and then i would like to have a chat with the vampire who takes all kind of impractical jobs, from diskworld
#77 Funnily enough, Going Postal was my first Pratchett novel too. I can't believe I overlooked him all these years - maybe it was a case of having so many people recommend him that some part of me got rebellious and refused to even try him.
The audio books of his novels are wonderful, if ... I just read my first Pratchett recently, PDeebs. Going Postal. Very bizarre compared to my usual reading, but very funny.
... managed to decide on just seven (because I ran out of money and also because my friends were outside waiting for me.)
Going Postal & The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (I have the entire series on e-book form, but I like holding my ... ... of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
2. Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
3. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
4. Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman
5. 16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber
6. ... 107. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett I started off with Thud! (I was a later starter). I'm now reading Going Postal, which is great. I haven't read in order though I love the witches and the nightwatch so I will try to read them in order :) # 9
Going Postal has the following quote in Chapter 1 (2nd paragraph)
"The man going to be hanged had been named Moist von Lipwig by doting if unwise parents, but he was not going to embarrass the name, insofar as that was possible, by being hung under it."
This I found by a Google Book S ... I started with Monstrous Regiment and Going Postal when they came out, not realizing that there was a whole series of books out there. Then I went back and started at the beginning. I still haven't read them all. I'm getting the books from the library, and it seems like the one I want is always ... ... Tried to read Light by M.Harrison but stalled a quarter
way in. The main character is repulsive. Read half of Going Postal, but I've "heard" this novel so many times, I had trouble creating a new "reading" of it in my head. I just associate it too much with Stephen Briggs' voice. ... ... and I have truly run into used bookstore owners with, shall we say, a unique view on the world? When I read the book Going Postal by Pratchett, the one thought that stood out for me was this image. He mentioned that all the undelivered mail had never been read. All those words were crying ... Dear Heart, How Like You This by Wendy J. Dunn
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Sorcery And Cecilia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country by Patricia C. Wrede and Carol ... I'm like merrystar. Started with Sourcery and not gotten too confused.
I think next on my list is Going Postal. 56. Going Postal
I've officially run out of Discworld books to read! I have to wait for Making Money to come out in paperback, so in the mean time, I'm devoting myself to Star Wars. Looking at my TBR pile, I realized that out of 246 TBR books, 46 of them are SW.
57. Boba Fett #2:Crossfire
... ... Jodi Picoult
6. Chronicles, Bob Dylan
7. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
8. Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde
9. Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
10. This Charming Man, Marian Keyes
11. Something To Tell You, Hanif Kureishi
12. Love in the time of cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1 ... 5. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
6. Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
... for a while, but then we got more into "William Shakespeare parody" and "Phantom of the Opera parody" etc. Now with Going Postal and Making Money etc, I'm back to not knowing how to describe them.
That won't stop me reading them though!
Jim ... in deep doo for talking against the P.O. It is not done.
I have to say, I thought Terry Pratchett was on to something in Going Postal, when he spoke of the effect of all those words on the minds of those who handled them all day. I am not too fond of either Christopher Moore, Robert Rankin or Tom Holt, but I do like Pratchetts Diskworld books and his cooperation with Niel Gaiman Good Omens and Ben Elton - athough some of his books are very 'light' - as mentioned above.
Other than that, I like:
... I finished The PreHistory of The Far Side: a 10th Anniversary Exhibit by Gary Larson last night, but am still reading Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, a book of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a devotional and Hamlet, a Prince of Denmark. I've started Going Postal. There are chapters in this book! #115 meglimir - Going Postal is one of my favorite Pratchett's; I giggled a lot reading it too. I read Going Postal, but I've listened to a number of the Disc World books and enjoy them in that format - not too demanding and highly entertaining.
I'm still reading Oh Pure and Radiant Hear ... ... - read most of it and skimmed the rest. Loved it even tho' I'm mostly an armchair traveller these days.
Listening to Going Postal during commute - read it awhile back and enjoying hearing it read aloud. Today is one of the days my son carpools with me and we were both giggling this ... ... awards lists a number of times before. He has been on the Locus list many times - and many times featuring in the top 5. Going Postal was on the Nebula shortlist.
I see no evidence that he has been treated any differently by awards administrators or voters due to his illness. ... girl's character that he decided to give her a series of her own aimed at teens! It was a real surprise!
Now I've started Going Postal by Terry Pratchett to try to catch up with the Green Brothers reading club.
Next it will be Kabul Beauty School for my book club a week from Tuesday. ... because I liked it all right, but not enough that normally I would have bothered reading any more by him, if I hadn't read Going Postal first and enjoyed that one.
... outcasts. I am also enjoying working through The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz and just started a new audiobook, Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, the first of his that I have read/listened to. I haven't had time to read any of the books for the BBC. I would like to read the latest one: Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. I just checked and my local library has a copy. Hmmm...do I have time is the question! Finished Going Postal (A) yesterday. ... reading it for my library's (adult) book club. Finally I have an excuse to really spend some time to get it read!
LF Going Postal by Terry Pratchett John and Hank Green's latest book club title ... in Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore, I have chosen a passage from one of my favorite Pratchett novels Going Postal to quote to you. I believe this is the 36th novel in the Discworld series.
You don't have to read Pratchett novels in order. There are little series inside ... I've just finished Going Postal, good but not one of my favourite Discworld novels. Now I'm reading Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. ... Karenina, which I loved. Really want to read War and Peace soon, but for now am reading something (much!) lighter - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. ...
I love the black covers, they are so subtle but that makes them so great. There is a purple variation on the theme (e.g. Going Postal or Monstrous Regiment) that I do not like (black is better). MrsLee is right - just buy them all...
You could start with one of the sort-of stand-alones, like Going Postal or The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents or Small Gods.
3) Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
It's only the second Discworld book I've ever read... but if they're all this hilarious, I'll be reading more. There are moments when you hit a perfectly crafted line and just have to sit there (after catching your breath from laughter) and marvel at the ... ... Maurice and his Educated Rodents
Night Watch
The Wee Free Men
Monstrous Regiment
A Hat Full of Sky
Going Postal
Thud!
Wintersmith
Making Money
ETA touchstones 126. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga by Raymond W. Settle and Mary Lund Settle
The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg
Mailman: A Novel by J. Robert Lennon
... ... to Standard English
PF West Germanic languages German in review
PN Literature (general) Cod
PR English literature Going postal
PS American literature Riddley Walker
PT Germanic literature Homo Faber
PZ Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Coraline
Q Science (general) Metamag ... Listening to Going Postal (not at this exact moment because Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap is still on the radio but will be going back to it soon).
Seems like that kind of equivalent, right?
I'm reading Making Money now. Late, I know, but I had to reread Going Postal first because I couldn't remember a thing that had happened. Stephen Briggs as narrator is fantastic! I have never actually read Going Postal , but I've heard it a million or more times. The scene where Moist visits the library is especially amusing.
I don't like Robinson nearly as well.
Currently listening to Making Money by the way... ... I gave up the effort and read the blasted book! It took me a month even that way.
My absolute favorite audio book is Going Postal: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett and read by Stephen Briggs. I turn it on in the house while I'm cleaning for background noise. Regardless of ... ... Prachett especially some of the later watch novels such as Night Watch, Thud! and also Monstrous Regiment and Going postal : a novel of Discworld have some very developed writing. The earlier Diskworld novels are a bit rougher in my opinion. Anne McCafferey's Pern novels are ... ... instruments and their history by James Blades
God's playground : a history of Poland vol. 2 by Norman Davies
Going postal : a novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Edit: touchstones fixed In Going Postal : a novel the written letters, the "post", takes a life of their own, kind of. Not the actual letters of the alphabet, but you know - the ones the postal service delivers... MrsLee, I don't know if I'm comfortable with letters having a soul et al; anyway Going Postal : a novel is not my favourite Discworld novel... I know a lot of people panned it, but I quite liked Going Postal! and am looking forward to Making Money (removes brackets - touchstones is never going to find it!) when that comes out RSN (Real Soon Now).
I'd also like to see Angua and a bunch of her co-lycanthropes (sp?) join the Defence Forc ... Busifer, now just try to read about the Patrician without seeing him as Bowie. :)
My daughter wanted me to add that for Going Postal Discworld, she would cast Dominic Monahan (sp?) in the main role. I haven't read that yet, though my husband, who works for the Post Office and is not a sold out ... ... the same this year. I suspect no, since I am only at 21 so far, but who knows?
Here is what I have read so far:
1. Going Postal: a novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
I always enjoy Pratchett books, they make me laugh. They aren't important or anything, but they are fun and ... ... Moving Pictures, Night watch, Reaper Man, Feet of Clay (Discworld), Soul Music and Witches Abroad)
Least: Going Postal (Discworld)
*edited when I saw how weird the touchstones was! I never even got an alternative for some of them! Had to add "Discworld" to get it right...* then there's the completely off the wall slang such as found in Going Postal (Discworld)
Weird touchstones but got there in the end.
As for a natives understanding slang, it very much depends on where (and how) you were brought up. A lot of it is regionally based meaning outside of a 50-10 ... ... storyline.
That said, I really love having new characters introduced, so something along the lines of The Truth / Going Postal style would be a real treat. ... storyline.
That said, I really love having new characters introduced, so something along the lines of The Truth / Going Postal style would be a real treat. ... Omens, Colour of Magic, Where's My Cow?, The Art of Discworld, Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Night Watch, Going Postal, Hogfather, Thud!, Monstrous Regiment and Wintersmith.
Out of those, I have only read the first three. I keep telling myself I will read the rest ... ... are some that you can read very well without having to have read any previous ones for backstory, such as The Truth or Going Postal, which both focus mainly on a character never before introduced. Monstrous Regiment might also count, although there's a definite tie-in with the City Watch ... ... (which just keeps on growing and getting better and better!).
There are plenty of stand-alone books in there too - try Going Postal for a giggle at the expense of the Postal Service; Moving Pictures for a crack at the film industry; or Pyramids for an escapade in a land not unlike ... ... I must say that I have to disagree. I haven't read Wintersmith or Thud! yet, but I loved both Monstrous Regiment and Going Postal. MR particularly was an excellent book. Even my dad, who never reads SF/fantasy loved it, and was able to appreciate the story. ... story, 'tough), Witches Abroad, Small Gods, Moving Pictures... well, you see what I mean.
The newest work, like Going Postal, Monstrous Regiment and Thud! is not as good, even if I enjoyed them... I feel Pratchett mostly wrote them to tell "the truth" more tnat for the joy of the ... ... Elephant (Night Watch)
The Truth
Thief of Time (Death (minor))
Night Watch (Night Watch)
Monstrous Regiment
Going Postal
Thud (Night Watch)
Hope you all find that helpful.
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