Making Money

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  Making Money, by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday), £18.99, pp349 Fiction has produced many great cities - Dickens's London, Joyce's Dublin, Calvino's Eutropia. But rarely has a city of words recreated the farcical accommodations of urban life as well as T ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Making Money by Terry Pratchett 349pp, Doubleday, £18.99 Boris Johnson's candidacy for mayor of London could have come straight from a Terry Pratchett novel: a lovable buffoon with no discernible accomplishments becomes a leading contender for just t ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  remarkable book, it makes pratchett the most imaginative economist since the times of John Maynard Keynes.

  An economy's transition from gold-standard to golem-standard should become a fundamental exercise for economists, so that they re able to forecast and model an equally unlikely event like ... (continue)

  remarkable book, it makes pratchett the most imaginative economist since the times of John Maynard Keynes.

  An economy's transition from gold-standard to golem-standard should become a fundamental exercise for economists, so that they re able to forecast and model an equally unlikely event like a housing bust + stock market crash + widespread banking bankrupcies + whatever is awaiting us and we could forecast if only had we imaginative economists trained to explore the world of possibilities :-)

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  Darlinghurst said on Oct 23, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Moist is back!

  Not at the same height of "Going Postal", but it is funny and gets better at the end.

  Vetinari, this time, absolutely does not charge Moist Von Lipwig with running the biggest bank in Ankh-Morpork.
  The Man in the Golden Suit will face an ugly and funny dog with a rath ... (continue)

  Moist is back!

  Not at the same height of "Going Postal", but it is funny and gets better at the end.

  Vetinari, this time, absolutely does not charge Moist Von Lipwig with running the biggest bank in Ankh-Morpork.
  The Man in the Golden Suit will face an ugly and funny dog with a rather... unappropriate toy, an army of golems, an accountant who can't do a mistake, several tons of gold and this new invention that does not need metals to run an economy: "banknotes".

  Add an Igor, Adora Belle Dearheart, an outstanding Lord Vetinari and a fool who'd like to be him, shake well and go laugh and think at once and the same time ^_______^

  PS: oh, it is good also for another reason. If you want an inside look on what makes the world go round, if you want to understand on what our economy is based, read it. Simple and unaccurate, but really revealing and thought-provoking :)

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  Il Gobb said on Jul 8, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  It doesn't live up to Going Postal, but it's quite good.
  The fact that I raced over the last 120 pages and finished them at 4 in the morning, after 2 hours of reading, speaks for itself.

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  Simbul said on Dec 24, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  It's quite good, of course...

  ... only Thieves of Time I ever found less than satisfactory.
  Still it seems pretty much routine to me - as i found Thud!, and even the obvious comparison, Going Postal.

  Once again, we have a complex idea with fascinating social implications: here it's "where does financial reputation c ... (continue)

  ... only Thieves of Time I ever found less than satisfactory.
  Still it seems pretty much routine to me - as i found Thud!, and even the obvious comparison, Going Postal.

  Once again, we have a complex idea with fascinating social implications: here it's "where does financial reputation come from?", just as in Thud! was the clash of different cultures proud of themselves - plus one that cares little about any.
  The story plays with familiar characters, wit, and Diskworld themes around this idea. So it is quite good.

  With some more sentiment, and a more thorough development of the driving idea, it could have been another Feet of Clay, or a Monstruous Regiment.

  Thanks all the same.

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  Famiglia Marcellino said on Jul 27, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  "Watch out! He has a daisy!"

  As I've said before, I say again - there is no such thing as a bad Pratchett. While lacking the gravitas of Night Watch or Thud!, it's still a remarkably funny, often insightful look at the true nature of economics.

  Pratchett has set a preternaturally high standard for literature - which he ... (continue)

  As I've said before, I say again - there is no such thing as a bad Pratchett. While lacking the gravitas of Night Watch or Thud!, it's still a remarkably funny, often insightful look at the true nature of economics.

  Pratchett has set a preternaturally high standard for literature - which he sometimes fails to meet, some may say. But every book I've ever read of his is always good for a laugh and often comes with at least one truly quotable line.

  I wouldn't say this latest is his best, but it certainly enriches the texture of the Discworld universe by adding yet another layer of reality to it. Long-standing fans of Pratchett will not be disappointed by this work, but they won't have the same feeling they had coming off of "Night Watch", "Thud!" or "Wintersmith."

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  guaddess said on Sep 30, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 352 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0385611013
• ISBN-13: 9780385611015
• Publisher: Doubleday UK
• Pub date: Oct 02, 2007
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Audio CD, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Česká kniha

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