Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #528745 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-08
• Format: Audiobook
• Binding: Audio Cassette
• 329 pages

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. Is there a shot at redemption waiting in the mad world of the mail for a man who's prepared to push the envelope?

From the Back Cover
Moist von Lipwig was 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 was a tough decision.

But he's got to see that the mail gets though, 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...

About the Author
Terry Pratchett:
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal.

Customer Reviews

They Don't Come Any Better than Pratchett

When Terry Pratchett's Discworld series first started, although they were immensely popular I always thought that you needed a certain sense of humour to get the best out of them "weird" would be a good word to describe it. Now I feel Mr. Pratchett has made a subtle change in his writing style to appeal to even more readers (if that is possible).

I believe that the large national organisations are probably quaking in their boots wondering if they are going to be the next subject he picks on. Will it be the Railways, Airlines or even the Government themselves. Perhaps Mr. Pratchett should be the Prime Minister, he certainly seems in a humorous way (or is he serious), to be able to put his finger on the problems that abound in these national industries.

Perhaps a few old ladies in black pointed hats walking around Westminster and a few Werewolves pounding the beat in police uniform would be of enormous benefit to the nation.

Going Postal is a joy to read. What an incentive for career criminal Moist von Ludwig. Put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet on face being hanged. Perhaps that's the kind of incentive all bosses of national institutions should have (only joking, I think). It certainly makes the old grey cells start to tingle. Perhaps a criminal has the sort of devious mind that could turn things around

If you have read the others you will know what to expect. If you haven't, well its high time you started to read the funniest and most innovative writer in Britain today.

Not to be missed. A practical use for golems.
Note that this is a 4 tape set running for 6 hours. It has been advertised it as 3 hours in some places.
We return to the ancient city and meet a little commercial malpractice with new communications technology. Golems turn out to be invaluable.
Beautifully read by Tony Robinson, Going Postal has plenty of humour, a little bit of a comment on our present society, and nice story telling.
A rollicking light political adventure with remarkably little from Unseen University. There is always a choice.