Going Postal - Terry Pratchett

Going Postal is the latest release from Terry Pratchett. Being a fan, I was eager to buy this as soon as possible and bought it from Amazon with my vouchers earned from Dooyoo. Now, fans are allowed to criticise what they love and recently, I have had a few disappointments from Pratchett. I found Night Watch disappointing and The Wee Free Men began well, but trailed off somewhat. Before that, I read Monstrous Regiment and adored it – but I really wanted another Pratchett hit. Going Postal has many good things about it. The main character is one Moist Von Lipwig – a conman with a helpfully forgettable face and a long list of aliases. After a rather ...  Read the complete review

First of all, I have to say that I'm surprised to see the low ratings of this book on the reviews already here. I admit that it does start off slowly, but it has some wondeful passages in it. Oh well, each to his own! Here's what I think of it: ****************** Going Postal is yet another novel in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. For those of you that have never read a Discworld novel before, the Disc is a place of magic and mayhem, not so unlike our own world. But when elements of our world enter it, the result is usually more mayhem than usual… This is one of the novels that really doesn't need a particular knowledge of the ...  Read the complete review

This book is hilariously funny. I view this as one of Terry Pratchett's best novels. In this book we follow the unfortunate life of the master thief 'Moist Von Lipwig' or one of his other many names. We follow him through his supposed death and then his introduction into being the 'Postmaster'. He finds Lord Vetinari's proposal hard to accept to begin with and simply attempts to escape the city but when he finds out that there is a Golem after him who doesn't need to eat, sleep or drink he soon discovers that it is just easier to go with Lord Vetinari's Wishes. But the Post office isn't quite what he was expecting and he has a much harder job than he though ...  Read the complete review

Given a brief synopsis this book doesn't sound at all promising - a plain man is placed in charge of the postal system and, with the aid of a golden suit and winged hat, manages to turn it around. However (at the risk of sounding like a M&S advert), this isn't any ordinary postal system, this is a Terry Pratchett Discworld postal system! Albert Spangler is a very dodgy man - he is the kind of man who always has a scam on the go and has never done an honest days work in his life. If you saw a Granny for sale for a quick buck, you could be sure that she was Albert's Granny. Despite all of this Albert is a very nondescript man, the kind of man ...  Read the complete review

“Going Postal” is Terry Pratchett’s twenty-ninth novel set on the magical Discworld. This world were trolls, dwarves, vampires and werewolves rub shoulders with humans in polite society bares a bizarre, yet frightening resemblance to our own be it in its racial intolerance’s or its political structure. This particular Discworld outing follows the adventures of Moist von Lipwig. This con-artist, fraudster, cad and bounder is due to be executed yet is offered a reprieve by the Patrician of the Discworld’s capital city Ankh-Morpork. His life will be spared if he takes up the long retired position of Postmaster General and steer the Post-Office back to the glory ...  Read the complete review