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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

Terry Pratchett puts his stamp on the new Discworld novel.

Moist von Lipwig was 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 was 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. Maybe it’ll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it’s a death sentence either way. Or perhaps there’s a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who’s prepared to push the envelope...

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