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  • Although many people haven't liked Pratchett's later works as much as his earlier efforts, I found this entry - satirizing the postal system - to be delightfully funny. Moist Von Lipwig is not Pratchett's most charming protagonist, but this is still head and shoulders above most books out there. No ... Continue

    Although many people haven't liked Pratchett's later works as much as his earlier efforts, I found this entry - satirizing the postal system - to be delightfully funny. Moist Von Lipwig is not Pratchett's most charming protagonist, but this is still head and shoulders above most books out there. Not up to previous Pratchett standards, but very funny, nonetheless.

    

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• ― guaddess said on Sep 22, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

Arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig never believed his crimes were hanging offenses -- until he found himself with a noose around his neck, dropping through a trap door, and falling into ... a government job? Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be an impossible task. Worse, the new Postmaster could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money-hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt.

But it says on the building NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLO M OF NI T ... Inspiring words (admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen), and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what's called for, he'll do it -- to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and deliver that invaluable commodity that everyone requires: hope.

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