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Making Money (Discworld Novels) (Hardcover)

by Terry Pratchett (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
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The Guardian, September 29, 2007

...the finest satirical series running. If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?


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Terry Pratchett is a comic genius.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Not one of his best - but not the worst either, 30 Oct 2007
By Susan Belcher "Su B" (St Helens, England) - See all my reviews
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Making money is not one of Mr Pratchett's best works - in fact it appeared rushed to cash in on the run on the Northern Rock Bank, not his usual smooth work.

I have to say I was disappointed on first reading the book, I then listened to my discs and I liked the book more. There's something about a listening to someone reading me a story that takes me back to a less stressful time (that Jackanory moment when I was a child and the troubles of the world were far, far away).

This story is not going to rank in my top twenty discworld stories but it isn't at the bottom of the list either.

It could be that the new Moist book came too soon on top of the Going Postal, that it would have been better if Mr Pratchett had returned to the Watch, or the Witches, or UU's faculty and Rincewind, or even Death, before moving back to Moist so quickly. Yet, for all its faults and similiarities to Going Postal, the Making Money story is a good one, even if it is lacking in the usual Pratchett polish.
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39 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars fortuitous mistake, 15 Oct 2007
I bought this book as a complete mistake. I treated myself to it in a flurry of self-help/popular psychology books, after reading a great book called Making Time, assuming it would be something similar.
In my ignorance, I'd never read any Terry Pratchett before. But I've enjoyed this a lot. It's so entertaining and easy to read and full of great ideas. If his other books are better that this, I'll have to read them too.

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50 of 72 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not up the the usual high standard, 4 Oct 2007
By S. Murphy (Bolton, England) - See all my reviews
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All through this book I kept thinking to myself "this can't really be Pratchett". It feels more like something written by a good imitator. All the standard jokes are there, the characters are those we've come to know and the plot burbles along, skipping from plot device to plot device in normal fashion. Unfortunately its all a bit flat.

The standard jokes aren't so funny now that they've been rehashed so many times; the characters are more cardboard cut-out than engaging, well fleshed personalities; and the cliff-hanger at the end of each couple of pages soon seems contrived and annoying.

Moist von Lipwig is bored now that he has got the post office running efficiently and no one is trying to kill him. Seeing this and realising that someone is needed to sort out the Royal Bank, Vetinari contrives, predictably, to get Lipwig on the job. From here on the whole book plods along in pedestrian fashion. The reader's smiles are few and far between and the laughs simply don't come at all. All in all this book is nothing new, nothing very interesting and nothing at all surprising. Pterry appears to be simply coasting and fans will be disappointed.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable but without spark
An enjoyable Discworld novel that doesn't quite have the spark they used to. Moist is an interesting returns for his second installment and makes an interesting lead character... Read more
Published 1 day ago by Sulkyblue

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best
I find the Moist stories some of the worst in the discworld series. This one feels like a very rehashed copy of going postal without the great nemises that Gilt was in Postal. Read more
Published 25 days ago by S. Sharples

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good, rather than great
Not Terry's best, but still very enjoyable and well written. If Amazon had ratings in percentages, this would be 95%

Vimes has a cameo in this, and I sort of hoped... Read more
Published 1 month ago by L. Green

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes YOUR money count!
If you wanna know how it feels to be the living embodiment of the proverbial "Crime Doesn't Pay" (or does it?) and that a quiet law-abiding civilian life is worth (or not? Read more
Published 4 months ago by arxo

4.0 out of 5 stars golden
As with all the Pratchett books I have read, I really liked this. There is a fun story that keeps your interest and the whole setting is great. Read more
Published 6 months ago by olympian

5.0 out of 5 stars It;s all a matter of perspective
After having seen many of the reviews for this book, I decided to write my own because I felt that most reviewers were ignoring critical facts. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ms. Thalia J. Lipsky

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Discworld books
Being a big Terry Pratchett fun, I cannot say there were any Discworld books I did not like, but there are some I love more than others. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Granny Weatherwax

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Much like Going Postal
Not exactly a disappointment because Terry Pratchett is (nearly) always good reading value, but Moist von Lipwig is not one of my favourite characters and banking offers fewer... Read more
Published 9 months ago by J. R. Bedford

5.0 out of 5 stars Making Money = Making Pleasure
While some may say it doesn't live up to Terry's past works I would dissagree. I found it wonderful! Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. A. Sell

4.0 out of 5 stars Collateral Custard saves the day. Genius.
Utterly stupendous ending saves this Pratchett Discworld novel of moderate worth.
Only a genius could come up with such a barmy original idea as Collateral Custard... Read more
Published 11 months ago by MinnieMoocher

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