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|title=Making Money
|author=Terry Pratchett
|buy=Maybe
|borrow=Yes
|pages=352
|publisher=Doubleday
|date=20 Sep September 2007
|isbn=978-0385611015
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The problem with trying to break into the apartment of the Postmaster General... is that once you've done it you're home and dry. Well, if you're Moist von Lipwig, you are at least 'home'.
There's no avoiding it... life since he wasn't hung for being Albert Spangler had had its moments. (See [[''Going Postal]]'') Not all of them especially pleasant moments, but most definitely MOMENTS! Now... especially when Adora was away rescuing Golems, and the clacks clacked away efficiently and even the night mail ran nightly... it just wasn't the same.
Moist might not yet be willing to admit it, but he's bored. Not quite to the point of welcoming a meeting with the Patrician but almost.
So should you read it? If you're a Discworld fan definitely, if you're not it's not one to start with - you'll miss a lot of the running gags if you don't read the early Watch series or least Going Postal first. Amusing rather than hilarious. I've also got a sneaking suspicion that the whole thing is an elaborate introduction to the next one.
If you like Pratchett and haven't yet discovered Christopher Moore, you should! Try [[Dirty Job]]. You might also enjoy [[The Burning Page (The Invisible Library Series) by Genevieve Cogman]].
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|name=Jill
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|comment= I've always laughed at "I promise to pay the bearer" - pay the bearer what? Money supply is indeed the most ludicrous invention of man. People die for lack of an artificial construct - won and lost by other people betting on what doesn't exist. A far sadder world indeed than the Discworld.
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|name=Claire Holtry
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|comment= it is great that you can read TP on two levels. There is the humorous, silly jokes and strange personalities side and the 'is he making a point' side.
I think that this is a book for a wet Saturday afternoon, just enjoy it for what it is.
