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Going Postal: A Discworld Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

Terry Pratchett (Author), Paul Kidby (Illustrator)
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Release Date: 26 Sep 2005

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist...

... and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet.

It's a tough decision.

But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.

Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too...

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi; New Ed edition (26 Sep 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0552149438
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552149433
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 2.6 x 17.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (129 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 31,494 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"'A satirist of enormous talent' THE TIMES."

"'Pratchett's joy in his creations, in jokes, puns, the idea of letters and language itself, makes Going Postal one of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention'" (The Times )

"'With all the puns, strange names and quick-fire jokes about captive letters demanding to be delivered, it's easy to miss how cross with injustice Pratchett can be. This darkness and concrete morality sets his work apart from imitators of his English Absurd school of comic fantasy'" (Guardian )

"Going Postal again does justice to the author's peculiar vision. The weirdness of Discworld is appropiately captured in a tale of love and redemption which blends satire, humour and drama" (The Daily Telegraph 20100529)

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Pratchett at his best 30 Nov 2004
By Ms. Clair E. Mcmullen
Format:Hardcover
I love Terry Pratchett books, I really really do. They're brilliant. Pure, unadulterated genius.

This book follows the story of a con artist as he tries, with the flair of a natural showman, to get the Ankh-Morpork post office up and running against the competition: the clacks, semaphore towers which can send a message across country and next to no time, but are run by a bunch of money grabbers who don't care about the clacks themselves, only what the towers can do for them.

Old favourite discworld characters make small appearances. Vimes is seen, but not heard. Carrot and Angua pop in briefly for a chat, Colon loiters outside a building, the librarian is seen in the background. But the patrician....ahh...gotta love that man. Many of Ankh-Morpork's inhabitants seem to forget that he is actually a tyrant, and therefore doesn't have to justify himself to anyone. And there are the golems, and they always make me smile.

You've got the fantastic clash between the bad guy and the bad guy. The bad guy who really is a good guy, just not interested in honest work, and the bad guy who appears to do honest work, but really is a bad guy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pratchett turns out another master work 28 Oct 2004
By Simon Booth
Format:Hardcover
I've been reading the Discworld novels since about 1989, and I believe that Going Postal is the 33rd book in the series - and honestly there hasn't been a bad book in the lot, and in many ways Terry Pratchett improves as a writer with every book he releases. GOING POSTAL is in some ways a throw-back to his earlier books, being the first book for quite a while that's divided into chapters, and with more of the hilarious footnotes that were a favourite feature of his earlier books. However, it still maintains the deeper characterisation and depth of his more recent works, and the very strong story-telling. Pratchett's great gift is using his fantasy world to make wry satirical observations about our everyday world, and the nature of human existence and weakness - without being at all heavy going to read. A true British institution, and I look forward to many more Discworld books :)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Totally excellent 27 Jun 2006
By Lisa Q
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have the full collection and this is by far the most entertaining and truely delightful plot with believeable characters and lots of laugh out loud moments. I'd recommend it to everyone
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