Product Description

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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44136 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-24
• Released on: 2007-09-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

The Guardian, September 29, 2007
...the finest satirical series running. If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?

Daily Express
Terry Pratchett is a comic genius.

The Times
As bright and shiny as a newly minted coin; clever, engaging and laugh-out-loud funny.

Customer Reviews

Not one of his best - but not the worst either
Making money is not one of Mr Pratchett's best works - in fact it appeared rushed to cash in on the run on the Northern Rock Bank, not his usual smooth work.

I have to say I was disappointed on first reading the book, I then listened to my discs and I liked the book more. There's something about a listening to someone reading me a story that takes me back to a less stressful time (that Jackanory moment when I was a child and the troubles of the world were far, far away).

This story is not going to rank in my top twenty discworld stories but it isn't at the bottom of the list either.

It could be that the new Moist book came too soon on top of the Going Postal, that it would have been better if Mr Pratchett had returned to the Watch, or the Witches, or UU's faculty and Rincewind, or even Death, before moving back to Moist so quickly. Yet, for all its faults and similiarities to Going Postal, the Making Money story is a good one, even if it is lacking in the usual Pratchett polish.

fortuitous mistake
I bought this book as a complete mistake. I treated myself to it in a flurry of self-help/popular psychology books, after reading a great book called Making Time, assuming it would be something similar.
In my ignorance, I'd never read any Terry Pratchett before. But I've enjoyed this a lot. It's so entertaining and easy to read and full of great ideas. If his other books are better that this, I'll have to read them too.

Not up the the usual high standard
All through this book I kept thinking to myself "this can't really be Pratchett". It feels more like something written by a good imitator. All the standard jokes are there, the characters are those we've come to know and the plot burbles along, skipping from plot device to plot device in normal fashion. Unfortunately its all a bit flat.

The standard jokes aren't so funny now that they've been rehashed so many times; the characters are more cardboard cut-out than engaging, well fleshed personalities; and the cliff-hanger at the end of each couple of pages soon seems contrived and annoying.

Moist von Lipwig is bored now that he has got the post office running efficiently and no one is trying to kill him. Seeing this and realising that someone is needed to sort out the Royal Bank, Vetinari contrives, predictably, to get Lipwig on the job. From here on the whole book plods along in pedestrian fashion. The reader's smiles are few and far between and the laughs simply don't come at all. All in all this book is nothing new, nothing very interesting and nothing at all surprising. Pterry appears to be simply coasting and fans will be disappointed.