Never one to miss the opportunity for a bit of extra time amongst the books, I downloaded Going Postal to my Blackberry via Mobipocket.com which anyone who hasn't should check out because it has a surprisingly good selection of SFF titles as well as a number of classics that you can download for free.
Now, technology evangelism aside, here is the review:
Book info:
- Mass Market Paperback: 429 pages
- Publisher: Corgi Adult; New Ed edition (26 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0552149438
- ISBN-13: 978-0552149433
Synopsis:
Moist von Lipwig is a con artist...and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too...
From the Back Cover:
Moist von Lipwig is a con artist…
… and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet.
It’s a tough decision.
But he’s got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers’ Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.
Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.
Maybe it’ll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it’s a death sentence either way.
Or perhaps there’s a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who’s prepared to push the envelope…
Reviews around the web:
Well what can you say about the 33rd book in a series that just keeps getting better and better? As usual the majority love this one. Pratchett's loyal and committed following love everything he produces but to be fair, as Fantasy Cafe points out, his work has matured nicely with a slightly more serious/political undertone if you look for it - moving away from the silliness of Rincewind (though I still want to adopt "the luggage" - there are a few hotel porters I would set it on) Pratchett introduces a host of new characters in the later discworld books that are as full and developed as any you'd expect to see from a man at the top of his trade.
My two cents
Yes, I loved it but then I'll always have a soft spot for the Discworld series. I think I lost interest somewhere around Wyrd Sisters for a while (for reasons stated above) which is why I'm so pleased that in more recent books Pratchett has been able to create whole new pocket universes, even justwithin Ank-Morpork which fit seamlessly into the world he has created without ever having to excuse their late arrival.
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