<![CDATA[Making Money (Discworld, #31)]]>

false <![CDATA[Making Money (Discworld, #31)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190047692m/116296.jpg 116296 19 The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like . . . well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start and end on time; five out of six letters relegated to the Blind Letter Office ultimately wend their way to the correct addresses. Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, former arch-swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations—including his own. So it's somewhat disconcerting when Lord Vetinari summons Moist to the palace and asks, "Tell me, Mr. Lipwig, would you like to make some real money?" Vetinari isn't talking about wages, of course. He's referring, rather, to the Royal Mint of Ankh-Morpork, a venerable institution that haas run for centuries on the hereditary employment of the Men of the Sheds and their loyal outworkers, who do make money in their spare time. Unfortunately, it costs more than a penny to make a penny, so the whole process seems somewhat counterintuitive. Next door, at the Royal Bank, the Glooper, an "analogy machine," has scientifically established that one never has quite as much money at the end of the week as one thinks one should, and the bank's chairman, one elderly Topsy (née Turvy) Lavish, keeps two loaded crossbows at her desk. Oh, and the chief clerk is probably a vampire. But before Moist has time to fully consider Vetinari's question, fate answers it for him. Now he's not only making money, but enemies too; he's got to spring a prisoner from jail, break into his own bank vault, stop the new manager from licking his face, and, above all, find out where all the gold has gone—otherwise, his life in banking, while very exciting, is going to be really, really short. . . . 144656 book 18 9 2007 Making Money (Discworld, #31) total:3810|5:1260|4:1522|3:884|2:127|1:17| 3810 15311 5030 431 2 6 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri May 02 12:43:53 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 01:57:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 20:09:30 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 20:10:24 -0800 2008 Going Postal, in which the former con-man Moist von Lipwig sets up the new Ankh-Morpork post office and thwarts the evil corporate wiles of the Clacks.

When my co-workers asked me what I was reading, I told them, "It's a fantasy about.... About banking."
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Maybe it's just because Going Postal is one of my favorite Discworld novels that the sequel seem...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 09:28:49 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 17:42:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 true false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 22:54:25 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 22:56:33 -0700 2007 Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, but I have to say that this is not the best of the bunch. Maybe it's that the main character, Going Postal's Moist von Lipwig, is a thoroughly reformed scallywag. In Postal we all knew that he was going to realize that he had a heart of gold and d...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 18:15:18 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 18:24:41 -0700 2007 Terry Pratchett. Unlike recent successes Monstrous Regiment and Wintersmith, Making Money goe...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 08:41:53 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 07:20:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 16:07:31 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 20:09:18 -0700 2007 Going Postal makes a return, this time with the task of getting the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork in order. There's a lot of new interesting characters to be found, as well as familiar faces from the rest of the series as well as Going Postal. The Lavishes were just great and entert...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 05:09:02 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 05:54:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 17:04:17 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 17:14:52 -0700 2007
I loved how Terry Pratchett fleshed out the characters so nicely, which made up for the lacking in plot. I found Cosmo...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 07:59:12 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 08:13:46 -0700 2007 banking and it is interesting!

I think I liked this one better than Going Postal. I didn't find Moist to be a very interesting character in that one, and I still don't after this, but he has his moments. And Adora Belle is just kind of...meh. I like the idea of her, but the...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 14:14:07 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 14:25:28 -0700 2008
One small thing, though. While Pratchett's fictional world is every bit as absurd and unpredictable as that in Douglas Adams...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 16:29:10 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 16:50:52 -0800 2009 Going Postal) so I was never drawn in. There were too many plots that I didn't care about, it woul...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 26 04:15:15 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 04:15:33 -0800 2008 Terry Pratchett
Transworld Publishers (Double Day)

ISBN 9780385611015

The latest book in the ever lengthening Discworld series again concentrates on Moist von Lipwig as the central character. The environment is familiar and Ankh-Morpor...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 30 18:09:13 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 18:09:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue May 19 10:30:37 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 10:31:01 -0700 2009
I'd say this is arguably one of P...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 20:57:28 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 09:59:46 -0800 2009 Going Postal aren't new any more,...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 07:53:01 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 07:53:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 19:05:25 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 08:55:30 -0800 2008 Terry Pratchett's newest hero, Moist VonLipwig, previously star of Going Postal. While he would not be my first choice for a character to follow (as I much prefer the Watch and Rincewind novels), I enjoy Moist's view of things much moreso than I did Tiffany Aching, a Granny W...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=116296