- Hardcover: 377 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; 1st Edition edition (Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060013133
- ISBN-13: 978-0060013134
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.1 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (118 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,061,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Like many of Pratchett's best comic novels, it is a book about redemption ... Pratchett is never frivolous.'
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One of the best and funniest English authors alive Independent He is a satirist of enormous talent...incredibly funny...compulsively readable The Times He would be amusing in any form and his spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction Mail on Sunday
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THEY SAY that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged. Read the first page
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THEY SAY that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged. Read the first page
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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 :)
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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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Pratchett at his finest
Sir Terry's finest work, hands down. Moist Von Lipwig is a loveable rogue who you can't help but love. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Pete
Great!
This is one of my favorite books of all time! I love it, and re-read it every year. Typical Pratchett. I fall in love with the swindling main character every year!
Published 10 months ago by Katie Miller
great very funny!
I loved this book as it made me laugh. It's one of those books you can read at anytime or in any state and it will cheer you up immensly. Terry Pratchett has produced a great book!
Published 16 months ago by Treelo
Another excellent book
This is a fresh line inside Discworld, with mostly new characters, but the subject at hand (corporativism and their influence on society) is so good that it makes us forget about... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Canela
Another Triumph
Terry Pratchett is one of my favourite authors, and going postal is just another example of a book which merits the label "unputdownable". Read more
Published 22 months ago by Matt Smith
Going Postal for more
As a fan of Pratchett is was quite a good bit of fun to revisit this offering due to its repackaging that ties it to the TV two parter. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Gareth Wilson - Falcata Times Blog
Great read
I had heard a lot about Terry Pratchett as a good (funny) SF author but I had never been tempted to read his novels as I thought the comic touch might be too heavy, and also that... Read more
Published 24 months ago by M. Ferrandon
Excellent
Another excellent book by Mr Pratchett.
I read the next book a while ago, so it was a bit odd for me being out of sequence, but didn't really matter.
I read the next book a while ago, so it was a bit odd for me being out of sequence, but didn't really matter.
Published on 29 April 2010 by Bogbean
true to life
being a postman i am finding this book hilariously funny and finding many senarios which are closer to the real thing than fiction
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Published on 14 April 2010 by Gordon D. Wotherspoon
Disappointing but still Discworld
While this book is still following Pratchett's recent return to form, I was somewhat disappointed. Throughout the whole thing I had the distinct sense I'd already read the story,... Read more
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