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Making Money

(Discworld #36)

Terry Pratchett

4.21 · Rating details · 64,988 ratings · 1,970 reviews

It's an offer you can't refuse.

Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door?

It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long.

The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), i ...more

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Mar 16, 2017 Lyn rated it liked it

If this book were made into a movie, I’d expect that either Adam Sandler or Frank Capra would be a fitting director (preferably Sandler since Capra has been dead for over 25 years).

Films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Mr. Deeds capture the crowd pleasing best elements of Making Money, Pratchett’s 36th Discworld novel, Nebula Award nominee and Locus Award winner. Again we visit with Pratchett’s loveable rogue Moist Von Lipwig and this time around Lord Vetinari has placed him in a leadershi ...more

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May 27, 2016 Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it

Shelves: 21th-century, fiction, humor, literature, adventure, comedy, science, british, childrens-young-readers, fantasy

Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2), Terry Pratchett

Making Money is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, part of his Discworld series, first published in the UK on 20 September 2007.

Moist von Lipwig is bored with his job as the Postmaster General of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office, which is running smoothly without any challenges, so the Patrician tries to persuade him to take over the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork and the Royal Mint. Moist, content with his new lifestyl ...more

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Oct 17, 2012 Ms. Smartarse rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, part_of_a_series, comedy, quotable, action-adventure, racism, rave, politics

Moist von Lipwig is bored. The Post Office can now function without his intervention, the Clacks Towers are also on the mend, so people keep supplying him with increasingly boring reports, and, on top of everything, his fiance is off on a mysterious business trip. With no other heart-stopping adventures to rear themselves on their own, our intrepid (anti)hero has no choice but manufacture one. And things almost get out of hand... for a minute or two.

Lord Vetinari, ever attuned to his favorite co ...more

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Feb 09, 2008 Chris rated it really liked it

Shelves: pratchett, fantasy

This is the follow-up to 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."

I know, I know, it sounds like a bizarre topic for a fantasy novel, even for a Discworld novel, but gods bless Terry Pratchett, he can even make basic economic theory interesting. Why is it not that bad that a penny costs ...more

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May 27, 2020 Trish rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Moist von Lipwig has become a responsible authority of the community as Postmaster in Ankh-Morpork. He’s designed numerous stamps, the Post Office is flourishing, he’s got staff and has to organize such quaint little things as pension funds etc. In short: he’s bored. Nothing challenges him anymore.
Lord Vetinari, as fans know, is THE leader. He’s the embodiment of silently threatening authority figures with a brain (the most dangerous and rare of combinations). As such, he knows of Moist’s probl Moist von Lipwig has become a responsible authority of the community as Postmaster in Ankh-Morpork. He’s designed numerous stamps, the Post Office is flourishing, he’s got staff and has to organize such quaint little things as pension funds etc. In short: he’s bored. Nothing challenges him anymore.
Lord Vetinari, as fans know, is THE leader. He’s the embodiment of silently threatening authority figures with a brain (the most dangerous and rare of combinations). As such, he knows of Moist’s problem. And as he really is a GOOD leader on top of everything else, he makes sure Moist gets a new challenge, which will also advance Vetinari’s own plans (win-wins are always nice).
Thus, after revolutionizing the Post Office, our favorite con man becomes the manager of the Royal Mint of Ankh-Morpork as well as the bank right next to it! Ayup, a master thief in charge of an institution managing other people’s money. He now must even figure out a way to make money! Once again, he has to dust off an old defunct system and find creative ways to make it work. Preferrably before Lord Vetinari makes one of his non-threats come true.
As if that wasn’t enough, there is also a certain last will and testament resulting in the Assassins Guild watching him VERY closely. And between having to take the Chairman for his daily walkies, Moist is also stressed out over his girlfriend potentially starting some legal action against/with the dwarves (which we all know is even worse than going to war against them).
Some entitled little brats are sure to get what they deserve. *evil grin*

Yes, this is Terry Pratchett taking on the financial sector and all the sheer indescribably criminal ways most people in it work around laws and take people’s hard-earned money. He never goes so far as to SAY that bankers STEAL but let’s be real here: he put a THIEF in charge. *lol* He’s basically pointing out the obvious that some refuse to acknowledge while others apparently don’t dare point it out. Yes, the author it beating us with a sack of coins and calls it a massage. *snickers* All the commentary is once again as deliciously dark-humored as one expects from this master storyteller. The ridiculousness of the machinations directly mirroring our real-world’s insanity. If you don’t believe me, look at some of the passages I quoted.

I think I liked this even more than the last one with the Post Office. Both topics are more than timely (apparently regardless of when you’re reading this book). I laughed out loud while also cheering every time TP was dealing out yet another blow. Which is to say, I never had a moment of rest while reading this as the story never lets up.

Wonderful as usual, this time spiced a little bit more than in some other installments of the series even. In fact, and I at first couldn’t believe it to be true, this might have become one of my favorite novels of the series! ...more

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Oct 15, 2007 Fuzzy Gerdes rated it liked it

I'm a huge fan of 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 do the right thing, but it was fun watching him discover it. And the plot is clever enough, but maybe just a bit too clever, with too many of its gears exposed. It's not bad -- I LLOLed* a few times -- ...more

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Mar 26, 2013 Bradley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, 2020-shelf, humor

Out of all the recent -- or perhaps going back to the very start -- Discworld books, there has never been one that struck right to the core absurdity of our world more than this one.

Maybe that's just me. Or maybe I just find money outrageously funny.

It's probably just me.

Regardless of my little foible, Pratchett strikes to the heart of the matter, making fun of the gold standard and illustrating to us the absurdity of the IDEA of money, while all the while giving us golems, golden suits, clown g ...more

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Apr 24, 2017 YouKneeK rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: completed-series, fantasy

Making Money is the second book in the Moist von Lipwig subseries of Discworld. I’m enjoying this subseries quite a bit; I’m sorry it only has three books.

In this book, Moist von Lipwig finds himself unexpectedly involved in banking. The way in which this happens is pretty amusing, and the situation provides many chuckles throughout the book. I’m still really enjoying the character, and I also love that Lord Vetinari gets some decent page time in this subseries. The story itself wasn’t super exc ...more

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Nov 10, 2017 Suzanne rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio, fantasy, library, humor

“He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity. ”

This was one of my favorites so far. SO many great quotes, and spot-on observations about our banking system.
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Feb 10, 2015 Carolyn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, humour

This is more or less a follow-up to Going Postal in which Moist von Lipwig is pressured into doing for the banking system what he has done for the post office. Some great new characters in Fusspot, Chairman of the Bank (and a dog), Cosmo Lavish, head of the family that owns the bank and a Vetinari want-to-be, and Mr Bent, the chief cashier with a surprising past. Moist's girl friend makes an appearance as does a long dead wizard and an economic modelling machine called the Glooper. Not quite as ...more

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Sep 08, 2007 Seth rated it really liked it

Shelves: sf-f-h, discworld, fantasy

Quite fun. Fairly typical of the non-major-character stories in the series, although Moist von Lipzwig might be becoming a major character. The plot is a simplification of Going Postal: Vetinari ropes Moist into leaving his post as Postmaster and taking over as Assistant to the chairman of the Bank of Ankh-Morpork. Seeing as the chairman is a lapdog, this puts him in charge. The family that has run the bank for generations doesn't like this, the bank manager doesn't like Moist, and a mad scienti Quite fun. Fairly typical of the non-major-character stories in the series, although Moist von Lipzwig might be becoming a major character. The plot is a simplification of Going Postal: Vetinari ropes Moist into leaving his post as Postmaster and taking over as Assistant to the chairman of the Bank of Ankh-Morpork. Seeing as the chairman is a lapdog, this puts him in charge. The family that has run the bank for generations doesn't like this, the bank manager doesn't like Moist, and a mad scientist in the basement with an Igor is about to Do Something.

Oh, and Moist's girlfriend Spike is stirring up trouble with the golems again and might be starting a war with the Low King. Which is actually kind of tame for her. On the plus side, there is a lecherous lich leering after her, so Moist gets to get jealous.

As with all the Vetinari-centered, non-major-character stories (and with about half of the Vimes stories), this one is about the city as a living character in and of itself, asking the same question governments have been struggling with for thousands of years: what makes something valuable, and how can we get control of it? Ankh-Morpork is on the gold standard, which is entirely too inelastic for Moist's view of the world, but no Discworld economist has proposed any alternative and people don't know whether they can trust money they can't block magic with.

The economic question of automation springs up again, although the take on it is from the other side than it was in The Truth: what if it isn't one craft that's reduced from an industry to a cottage craft but instead categories of unskilled labor? How does the ripple of economic change spread and how can it gain momentum instead of lose it. This is always presented to Moist in the negative sense: how his rash ideas that words and passions can save people more than sensibility and money can could destroy even Ankh-Morpork; it takes him a long time to see the flip side of that coin.

On the downside, this isn't really anything excitingly new for Discworld. I'll keep reading the same stuff from Pratchett forever--it's brilliant. But sometimes he rises above the (already high) crowd and gives us a Night Watch, or a Fifth Elephant; if the occasional Monstrous Regiment is the price we pay to get them, then I'm happy to pay it.

I did laugh out loud through this one, reading far too many lines to my girlfriend (who was waiting to read it after me), so it's great in that Discworld-is-funny way (unlike, say Monstrous Regiment or Thud), but it's one of those "wait for the coincidences to catch up and then for Vetinari to show that he's known it all along" books, which are just so-so in my opinion.

Well, well worth reading for the humor, but don't drop Night Watch for it. ...more

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Feb 25, 2020 Amy rated it liked it

Probably I should have read Going Postal first. (Have I read that? Not sure - we read a bunch of the Discworld books a while back).

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Jul 08, 2014 Kaethe Douglas rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, feminism, fiction, gender, humor, sex-positive, romance, swashbuckling, technology, politics

1 January, 2009

I love these newer Discowurld books where Pratchett is bringing his creation into the industrial age.

***

June, 2009

Where a science fiction author might use robots to examine the idea of gender, Pratchett uses golems. For some reason, I love that. I also really enjoy how most of his stories are about how humans use stories to make sense of the world around us.

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Jul 24, 2011 Sam Quixote rated it liked it

Moist von Lipwig, tired after making the Post Office such as success in "Going Postal", is itching for a new challenge - Vetinari sees this and turns Lipwig onto the banks and currency. Thusly Moist enters into a similar story to his last one where instead of the post, he is tasked with rejuvenating the money. The usual cast of new characters who seem familiarly like some previous new characters are present as are stock favourites, Vetinari, Vimes, Carrot, and a cameo by Death.

As others have po Moist von Lipwig, tired after making the Post Office such as success in "Going Postal", is itching for a new challenge - Vetinari sees this and turns Lipwig onto the banks and currency. Thusly Moist enters into a similar story to his last one where instead of the post, he is tasked with rejuvenating the money. The usual cast of new characters who seem familiarly like some previous new characters are present as are stock favourites, Vetinari, Vimes, Carrot, and a cameo by Death.

As others have pointed out the similarities to "Going Postal" are glaring and this is the problem with "Making Money" in that it has the feeling that we've been here before, not 2 years ago in fact! Sadly, it's very predictable fare. As Nobbs points out to Colon in the first third of the book: "Odds, sarge?" "You're running a book, Nobby. You always run a book" "Can't get any takers, sarge. Foregone conclusion. Everyone thinks he'll win" (p.132). And he does. A foregone conclusion. Yawn.

It wouldn't be so bad if Pratchett had made some interesting villains or obstacles but what we get is a rich guy who wants to be Vetinari, and something ominous but vague about golems which is quickly resolved in a paragraph at the end. Hardly edge of the seat stuff. Even the "secret" of Mr Bent, one of the new characters, is poor stuff. It's built up throughout the book and then revealed in a very weak punchline at the end. Vetinari disappointingly is present through much of the book when before he would have a couple of pages at the beginning and a couple at the end. His menace and mystique goes from interesting and dark to being that of a stern headmaster who is nonetheless approachable.

Also, there isn't much satire here. What exactly is he lampooning? Pratchett's always very sharp on his targets in Discworld but there doesn't seem to be a target here except that he wanted to introduce paper money to the citizens of Ankh Morpork which, really, he could have mentioned in a throwaway line in a better Discworld book ("What's this paper money for? Where's the gold?" "Y'know that Lipwig fellow? Vetinari put him in charge of the banks, so that's what we've got now" "Oh").

Who'd have thought it with Pratchett's ingenuinty - a by-the-numbers Discworld book? And it's hinted at the end that Moist will reappear to re-do the Ankh Morpork tax system! Dear me, I sincerely hope that book never materialises. The character of Moist was good for one book, two is stretching it, three is too much.

I can't bash this too much being a lifelong Discworld fan. It's well written and has enough going on to hold the interest even if you can see what's going to happen a mile off. Still, a visit to Ankh Morpork is always welcome and it's fun to see the familiar characters once again. Ideally a new Death book would be best but hey ho I guess Terry's lost interest in him and is content to churn out Young Adult Discworld like the atrocious Tiffany Aching/Nac Mac Feegle books. I just hope Terry goes with two of his other ideas "Snuff" featuring Vimes, and/or "Scouting for Trolls" a riff on "Scouting for Boys" instead of rounding off the trilogy of Moist (Moist! That name!) books. ...more

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Jul 15, 2008 Melissa McShane rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, own, favorites

10/24/19: Another audiobook re-read, this time so I could do crafts and miniatures painting with something to listen to. I liked the narrator better this time around, but it's good there isn't much Commander Vimes in this one, because I completely disagree with his interpretation of the character. Also noticed Moist's verbal tic of beginning a sentence with "O-kaaay," which I actually like. Now I have to decide if I'm going to finish off with Raising Steam, which I've only ever read once.

1/6/17: 10/24/19: Another audiobook re-read, this time so I could do crafts and miniatures painting with something to listen to. I liked the narrator better this time around, but it's good there isn't much Commander Vimes in this one, because I completely disagree with his interpretation of the character. Also noticed Moist's verbal tic of beginning a sentence with "O-kaaay," which I actually like. Now I have to decide if I'm going to finish off with Raising Steam, which I've only ever read once.

1/6/17: I re-read this as an audiobook as a test of the library's Overdrive system with my new phone and was surprised to see, when it's read aloud, how much there is of the Patrician in this book. (Stephen Briggs is not my favoritest narrator ever; his Patrician sounds like Stephen Fry, and yeah, who doesn't love Stephen Fry, he's just not how I imagine the Patrician sounding. And Briggs' default generic voice is Sort Of Scandinavian Or Something, which is just weird.)

Anyway, what I said below still goes, except for the final sentence, since now we know we got Raising Steam instead of the implied book about reforming the Ankh-Morpork tax system. I've only read that one once, which probably says something about how I liked it.

Read 8/12/10: Of all the Discworld novels, the ones featuring Moist von Lipwig are my favorites. I'm a sucker for rogues, and our hero is that in spades. What else can I say? I like everything about this book, including:

*the chain-smoking Adora Belle Dearheart, sensible and single-minded and still very attached to Moist

*Gladys the golem and her never-ending quest to become a Proper Lady

*the eternal question of how to deal with forgery (which in this case is to enlist the forgers on the side of Good)

*Angels, and the existence or lack thereof

*Igor

*The power of symbolism, in currency, necromancy, and the Golden Suit

I would very much like to see Moist tackle Ankh-Morpork's tax system, as the Patrician hints at the end of the book. Given Mr. Pratchett's health problems, that book would be especially welcome. ...more

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Apr 19, 2015 Lindsay rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, humor

Part of the Pratchett reread with the SpecFic Buddy Reads group in 2020.

Moist von Lipwig is growing bored with being an upstanding member of society and head of the Post Office. He's been a little too successful with it, and now he doesn't feel challenged. Vetinari sees this, as he does everything, and gives Moist a brand new challenge: Master of the Royal Mint and the task of reforming Ankh-Morpork's financial system, which to date, mostly consists of sock-under-the-mattress savings and a bank ...more

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Dec 07, 2017 Wastrel rated it liked it

If you liked Going Postal, you'll like this. Unless you can still actually remember Going Postal, in which case you'll probably have a weird sense of deja vu.

Going Postal tried to make up for its being a basically thin and over-familiar installment of Discworld by being very well polished and very slick. Making Money rewrites Going Postal, but less well polished, and less slick, which magnifies all of the faults already present in Going Postal, adds some more, and actually makes the earlier book ...more

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Apr 17, 2015 Ray rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

Another Discworld book. These are now so familiar and comfortable, like a well worn pair of slippers or a battered old leather armchair.

I confess that the plots are a little formulaic, and there is an element of repetition, but these books are done so well. The Discworld multiverse is coherent and consistant within its own logic, and the level of detail is superb. Pratchett's books ooze wit and repartee from every page, and to me his work bears comparison with the traditional standard bearers o ...more

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Mar 27, 2019 Julie rated it it was amazing

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So clever and so very amusing. I just loved it! I think everyone should have a feisty octogenarian in their life to keep them on their toes and remind them to be glad they are alive. I am referring here to one of my favorite characters, Topsy Lavish. Her dog Mr. Fusspot is also worth a mention! Here are my very favorite quotes:
“Rich as plum pudding and more complicated than a dwarf contract” on describing the new design of bank notes.
So descriptive and reminiscent of some family gatherings: "The ...more

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Dec 30, 2009 Matt rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, humor

There are two ways I can review this book. The first is to talk about the book. The second is to talk about me.

It's probably fairer to review the book first.

'Making Money' is one of the more recent books by the much esteemed and prolific Terry Pratchett, for whom everyone prays (even if they aren't the praying sort) that he staves off his senility long enough to crank out another 30 or 40 novels. Pratchett has a bit of something for almost everyone's taste and is one of the author's I turn to w ...more

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Jan 26, 2020 Jonathan K rated it liked it

This was a DNF due to an array of factors, the most important of which was the plot and odd sense of humor which while appreciated isn't the sort I gravitate towards. He's an extremely prolific author with a big following though I won't be added to the list! ...more

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Oct 07, 2014 Richard rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, comedy

7.5/10

Another enjoyable romp in the Discworld universe this time following up with Moist Von Lipwig and his escapades in Going Postal. To date Moist has to be my favourite character in the limited amount of Discworlds I have read and still retains the award for worst named character ever (no official award has been produced to my knowledge).

In the previous outing Moist took on the troubles of the Post Office, this time he takes on the issues with the banks. The usual dry and humorous observati ...more

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Apr 27, 2020 Pam Baddeley rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, humour

I think I read a much earlier Discworld book many moons ago. I'm probably not the right audience for this, as humorous fantasy/SF usually doesn't appeal as I find it a bit predictable and not very funny. I quite liked some of the characters, but I didn't find enough tension between the humour. The plot seemed very thin, and although various perils were set up for the hero Moist - whose name is presumably meant to be amusing but doesn't really seem so to me - they were quickly resolved or just fo ...more

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May 25, 2016 Michael added it

Shelves: discworld, 2016, creative-plot

I've read 5 Discworld books. The ranking is as follows

1. Going Postal
2. Monstrous Regiment
3. Color of Magic
4. Making Money
5. The Light Fantastic ...more

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Jul 16, 2018 Neo Marshkga rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is the first Discworld book I have read. And, I know, I know, I shouldn't have started here, this is the second part of a Trilogy that assumes I know the characters background, etc etc etc. But f**k it, this is where I decided to start.
I already knew lots of stuff from this series cause I have friends who LOVE Discworld and they have been taking to me about this for ages.
So, when I got to this books, I already had some background on the world, and, let's be honest, the knowledge I needed to ...more

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Jan 18, 2018 Matt rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, humor, 2018-reads

The financial sector of Ankh-Morpork is dire trouble and Lord Vetinari looks to his Postmaster General to solve the problem, however he doesn’t want the opportunity but somethings are out of his hands. Making Money is Terry Pratchett’s 36th Discworld novel and the second to follow the conman-turned-civil servant Moist von Lipwig who is beginning to pine for thrills and suddenly finds himself in the midst of them.

With the Post Office running as smoothly as possible and facing plain paperwork ever The financial sector of Ankh-Morpork is dire trouble and Lord Vetinari looks to his Postmaster General to solve the problem, however he doesn’t want the opportunity but somethings are out of his hands. Making Money is Terry Pratchett’s 36th Discworld novel and the second to follow the conman-turned-civil servant Moist von Lipwig who is beginning to pine for thrills and suddenly finds himself in the midst of them.

With the Post Office running as smoothly as possible and facing plain paperwork every day, Moist von Lipwig is looking for thrills and excitement in a variety of ways including scaling the outside of the Post Office and breaking into his own office. Lord Vetinari attempts to sell Moist on taking over the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork and the Royal Mint, but Moist is satisfied with his life. However Bank chairwoman Topsy Lavish changes her will to make Moist guardian of her dog, Mr. Fusspot, to whom she leaves her controlling interest in the Bank to. Suddenly Moist is taking care of a dog and running the Bank and Mint much to his annoyance and that of the Lavish family and Mr. Bent, the head cashier. Moist begins thinking about changes to the banking system but then is inundated with numerous challenges first from Mr. Bent, the Lavishes including one that wants to become Lord Vetinari (not Patrician just Vetinari), a former partner blackmailing him about his conman past, missing gold from the bank vault, and finally his fiancée arranging for an army of golems to arrive in Ankh-Morpork. Soon Moist past is exposed, though no one cares, after saving the city from the golems as well as using them to base his new paper currency and is still alive at the end of the book which is the least he wants out of each day.

Moist is one of the most original characters that Pratchett has come up with and like Going Postal, I enjoyed following his story. However, like the previous mentioned book this one is not up to the quality that Pratchett is known for. While Moist, Vetinari, and Adora Belle Dearheart were well written, the overall plot and the numerous subplots just seemed to meander. Pratchett attempted to avoid Moist doing exactly what he did in Going Postal by having him deal with other challenges, but they were a mishmash of ideas that didn’t seem to come together and pages were wasted with the Cosmo Lavish subplot that took up pages without really accomplishing anything.

Honestly, it was hard to rate Making Money because while I enjoyed reading Moist’s point-of-view, the overall plot of the book was just serviceable as it twist and turned based on the questionable subplots intertwined with it. If you are a first time Discworld reader, don’t read this book until you’ve sampled some of Pratchett’s other better quality writing. If you are a veteran Discworld reader then focusing on enjoying the point-of-view of Moist even though the book’s quality is just okay. ...more

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May 16, 2011 Toby rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: funny, fantastical, favourites

Exceptional later Discworld. Lots of interesting plot, fun characters and humourous asides; he really takes the characters created for Going Postal and runs with them, developing them much more rapidly than he did with other recurring characters, giving the impression that Moist leapt in to his fertile imagination fully formed and raring to help The Disc evolve.

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Dec 02, 2013 BigTreesAndBigBooks rated it really liked it

There is a saying that you can only tell the truth through fiction and it seems that Terry Pratchett is a believer of that saying. An ex-con is blackmailed into becoming the head of the Ank-Morpork's bank and is actually very good at it. Funny, mischievious and witty this book critisizes the modern world of the recession and the banking dominance. ...more

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Jan 28, 2018 Tomislav rated it did not like it

Shelves: fantasy, 1-star

There are a lot of people who love these Discworld books, but I'm afraid I don't see the attraction. I've only read one other of them - Mort - and I thought it was pretty clever. However, this book and it's predecessor, Going Postal, are the only two of the 38 book series nominated for the Nebula award. So I would have expected them to be the best, but I just don't see it. One problem is probably that I have not read Going Postal, and a portion of the humor in this book is really just reminders ...more

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May 19, 2020 Linda rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2020, audio

I was very much looking forward to another Moist Von Lipwig book, having loved Going Postal, but sadly this one just didn't quite live up to my expectations. Still, I'm comparing it to the recent Discworld books, all of which have been in the 4 to 5 star range, so it wasn't bad. ...more

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Terry Pratchett

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Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe.

Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, i ...more

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