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Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
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Going Postal

by Terry Pratchett

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HarperTorch (2005), Mass Market Paperback, 416 pages

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The best Discworld book to come in a long time. Introduces a fresh new character in form of the fast talking Moist. ( )
mohi | Jul 5, 2009 | 1 vote
This book was an excellent surprise; I love the Discworld series but was getting tired of seeing the same characters again and again in every book. Going Postal introduces an entirely new and refreshing cast; I particularly liked the main character and felt he was very well-developed.

Pratchett's books are funny precisely because he has a very firm grasp of human nature. His best work feels surprisingly profound even though you're also laughing so hard you're afraid you might break a rib. In some of the later novels I was getting more of a reused-joke feeling, and while it was still pretty funny, all the depth was gone. In this novel it's back, and I would rank Going Postal pretty high among the Discworld novels.

Highly recommended, especially to Pratchett fans who think Discworld has gotten a little stale. ( )
Zathras86 | Jun 13, 2009 |  
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 employees and a golem for a parole officer to make sure he stays in line. Maybe it's a perfect job for a con man, after all.

Though the 30th in the Discworld series, you don't need to have read any of the others to enjoy the story. I enjoyed the humor and liked the characters, and Stephen Briggs did an excellent job narrating. ( )
bell7 | Jun 10, 2009 |  
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (2005)
commonwealth | Mar 24, 2009 |  
A Pratchett book is a rare confection, all political satire and morally improving cads and just desserts for the cads who won't improve. Blissfully good. ( )
Wattsian | Mar 1, 2009 | 1 vote
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The flotillas of the dead sailed around the world on underwater rivers.
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"Can I not?" said Vetinari. "I am a tyrant. It's what we do."
"Oh, *please* sue the University!" Ridcully bellowed. "We've got a *pond* full of people who tried to sue the University--"
Neither Deluge Nor Ice Storm Nor The Black Silence Of The Netherhells Shall Stay These Messengers About Their Sacred Business. Do Not Ask Us About Sabre-Tooth Tigers, Tar Pits, Big Green Things With Teeth Or The Goddess Czol.
"What? Funning? I never fun! I do not fun, Miss Maccalariat, and have no history of funning, and even if I were inclined to funning, Miss Maccalariat, I would not dream of funning with you."
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.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0060502932, Mass Market Paperback)

Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job?

By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, greedy Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical headman. But if the bold and undoable are what's called for, Moist's the man for the job -- to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every being, human or otherwise, requires: hope.

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