false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168566235m/34539.jpg 64222 22 Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, greedy Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical headman. But if the bold and undoable are what's called for, Moist's the man for the job -- to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every being, human or otherwise, requires: hope. 1636617 book 2004 Going Postal (Discworld, #29) total:6125|5:2614|4:2393|3:997|2:101|1:20| 6125 25855 7657 376 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 5 2 false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 19:30:43 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 19:41:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 5 1 false Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 06:43:53 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 06:57:09 -0700 2008 --------------------------------------------

There was a silence. In that silence, Moist tried out a variety of responses, from "Pull the other ...more...]]> 34539 0060013133 9780060013134 224 26 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168566235m/34539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34539.Going_Postal 4 1 false Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 22:46:27 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 10:55:31 -0700 2008 The Wheel of Time (somewhere in book 5, I think) long before college....more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 5 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 15:15:15 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 21:36:33 -0700 2007 Going Postal, the enlightened despot of Ankh Morpork, Lord Vetinari, rather forcibly recruits a con man, Moist von Lipwig, to take over the running of the venerable and deserted post office, where letters have been accumulating for years -- if not decades -- without delivery. Moist steps relucta...more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 3 1 false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jun 05 21:13:20 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 21:22:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 64825 0413774473 9780413774477 213 12 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170624750m/64825.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64825.Going_Postal 4 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 09:47:17 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 09:47:17 -0800 2007 more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 4 0 false Wed Aug 19 19:42:52 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 20:05:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 4 0 false Sun Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 27 03:36:40 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 05:52:54 -0700 2009
The bri...more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 4 0 false Wed Aug 12 14:17:49 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 14:17:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 5 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 18:35:41 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 09:50:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 5 2 false Sat Nov 15 15:08:29 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 15:26:24 -0800 2008 Boy did I get sick of 'going postal' jokes
Especially when I'm in more danger
from high school kids and fundamentalists
than I would ever be from
my respected former colleagues

So when a friend said
read this Pratchett next
(between us...more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 4 0 false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 07:03:15 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 20:14:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 4 1 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 16:14:54 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 16:17:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 395949 0552149438 9780552149433 201 20 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174418206m/395949.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395949.Going_Postal 5 1 false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 09:38:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 02:50:37 -0700 2009 1
So to solve this problem, the Patrician and tyrant Lord Vetinari 'hires...more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 5 0 false Tue Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Jan 29 13:06:17 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 13:10:13 -0800 2009 Twice more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 5 0 false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 09:31:09 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 08:29:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 1 1 false Sat Aug 23 15:55:29 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 15:55:29 -0700 2008 34539 0060013133 9780060013134 224 26 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168566235m/34539.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34539.Going_Postal 4 2 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 10 11:32:10 -0800 2007 Wed Mar 14 21:36:05 -0700 2007 64222 0060502932 9780060502935 5314 288 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170621674m/64222.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal 5 0 false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 07:08:54 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 07:22:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 64825 0413774473 9780413774477 213 12 4.22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170624750m/64825.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64825.Going_Postal 5 1 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 29 20:08:28 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 20:09:45 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=34539