I say,hello again.
Posted on | February 23, 2009 | 6 Comments
Pip,pip and talley ho! I’ve rejoined with the pjf email since my old address wasn’t kosher. Quite.
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- Making Money – Terry Pratchett
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Incredibly, this is the 31st novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I seem to have read most of them! This strikes me as more openly satirical of contemporary 'society' than most of Terry's books - which is good. But it has the definite feel of being churned out like daily journalism. I don't blame Terry - the more books he writes the better; but the publishers can surely afford to dot the i's etc. Is the Discworld just a UK institution or has the rest of the world caught on? Maybe LD in Ilinois will let us know :) Smiths booksellers are offering 34% off the cover price, and Amazon.com similar; also CD and hardcover editions.
A realistic review by E A Lovitt:
I'm a huge Discworld fan and enjoyed "Making Money," which is a continuation of "Going Postal," but I couldn't quite shake the feeling that Terry Pratchett wrote this latest installment on automatic, or else got a golem to write it for him. All of the right characters are included---some like Death in cameo roles, and others like Lord Vetinari, almost too visible (a little of Ankh-Morpork's Patrician goes a long way). It's got all of the right standing, falling, and knocking-people-down-with-ladders jokes, plus Punes, or plays on words. But for a Discworld novel, "Making Money" lacks Pratchett's usual shoot-from-the-hip-and-mouth-and-other-body-parts originality. Maybe Moist von Lipwig, former Postmaster General and current trouble-shooter at the Royal Mint, is too slight a character to have the weight of two Discworld novels resting on his shoulders. Maybe his antics at the Mint are too similar to his antics at the Post Office. Or maybe it's because I can't stand his girlfriend, Adora Belle---Gladys the Golem has a nicer personality. Heck, the villain, Cosmo Lavish has a nicer personality, which is another one of this book's problems. We don't have a villain we can really hate. I spent the last half of the novel worrying about whether Cosmo's thumb would fall off, not whether he would succeed in replacing the Patrician at Ankh-Morpork's grubby helm.It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead. Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is ...Making Money!
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February 24th, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
hi dude. A seprate email is good with havin to join TEN blogs, yeah? Is this a meta-forum, a pseudo-forum, a Blogger-forum, not a forum at all, or just a good idea? If only there was one sign up for all ten boards …
February 24th, 2009 @ 7:56 pm
Hello old chap, If there is a way to sign up for all ten I’m sure the admin will find it. His techiness knows no bounds.
Quite
February 25th, 2009 @ 9:27 am
i fear the only way is to get the ten invites from blogger (only it's now 11 – i forgot the nature&environment bit) and verify them all …
February 25th, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
i see you’ve remembered the electric bikes blog — about time 3!
February 25th, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
Marthe, who is 3?
February 25th, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
Americans! shucks … “about time 3″ is like “about time too” only moreso