Making Money

Discworld #36

by Terry Pratchett

Pratchett takes on the bankers and the financial system in the thirty-sixth Discworld novel.

'Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one.'

The Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork is facing a crisis and needs a shake-up in management.

Cue Moist von Lipwig, Postmaster General and former con artist. If anyone can rescue the city's ailing financial institution, it's him. He doesn't really want the job, but the thing is, he doesn't have a choice.

Moist has many problems to solve as part of his new role: the chief cashier is almost certainly a vampire, the chairman needs his daily walkies, there's something strange happening in the cellar, and the Royal Mint is running at a loss.

Moist begins making some ambitious changes . . . and some dangerous enemies.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Audiobook, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Satire

394 pages, Hardcover

First published September 20, 2007

About the author

Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.
Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010.
In December 2007 Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust (now Alzheimer's Research UK, ARUK), filmed three television programmes chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron of ARUK. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, at the age of 66.

Reviews

[Nanna Guðmundsdóttir]

Ég var buin að gleyma hvað Terry Pratchett er skemmtilegur. Mjög fyndin bók og alltaf smá innsýn í okkar samfélag líka.

[Kolbrún Matthíasdóttir]

Hvernig fæ ég Bjarna Ben til þess að lesa þessa bók til þess að læra um kosti ríkisrekna banka?

[Skuli Saeland]

Ágætis vitleysa líkt og margar bækur Pratchetts. Eftir að Lipwig bjargaði póstkerfi Ankk-Morporks sendir Vetinari hann í bankakerfið. Næg spilling þar og nóg af óvinum. Nú er Lipwig hins vegar ekki vafasamur skúrkur heldur orðinn meira sem hetja sem kominn er til bjargar.

[Ingólfur Halldórsson]

Kallinn er fyndinn en ég missti alveg tengingu á meðan ég hlustaði. Ég hafði í raun eiginlega enda hugmynd um hvað í fjandanum var í gangi. Sjálfsagt ekki góðar bækur til að hlusta á.

[Óli Sóleyjarson]

Ekki beint óvænt að hún var betri en mig minnti.