If you want an excellent work of English Fiction with more than a dash of humor, read Pratchett today. Pratchett is his own genre, and we’re blessed he chose to use fantasy as his setting. At least not until you’re familiar with his style. The pieces are all there that you’ll recognize, but I doubt you’ll know what they’re there or how they’ll play at. I don’t think Pratchett is meant to be read for escapism fantasy where you get a to relive familiar stories told in a new way.

The plot is simplistic in it’s through line, but surreal in its side tangents. I think it speaks volumes that his conman skills are what makes him the ideal candidate to run the organization in a post tower (e-mail allegory) world. Yet, it is publications similar to this one that aid to put all the grim things in their correct location of absurdity. The novel centers around Moist von Lipwig, a loveable rouge who survives his own hanging after being caught stealing, only to be placed in charge of the postal service. I’m so glad I gave him another short! I can’t wait to read more. Thankfully a good friend demanded that I try again and recommended this novel to start. I’d tried him the past, but started with his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, big mistake! It was an okay novel, but it wasn’t Pratchett at his best. Going Postal is the first book in the Moist von Lipwig series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.If you’ve never read Pratchett before, start here. ‘One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention’ The Times Who happens to be very attractive, in an ‘entire womanful of anger’ kind of way.īut there’s new technology to compete against and an evil chairman who will stop at nothing to delay Ankh-Morpork’s post for good. To save his skin, Moist will need to restore the postal service to its former glory, with the help of tough talking activist Adora Belle Dearheart.

The Post Office is down on its luck: beset by mountains of undelivered mail, eccentric employees, and a dangerous secret order. It’s a tough decision, but he’s already survived one hanging and isn’t in the mood to try it again. Imprisoned in Ankh-Morpork, con artist Moist von Lipwig is offered a choice: to be executed or to accept a job as the city’s Postmaster General. ‘Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.’

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