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 lots 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: #201 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 480 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

Moist Van Lipwig Rides Again
Terry Pratchett back to top form with the return of Moist Van Lipwig - scally, scoundrel and risk taker extraordinaire.

You need to have read Going Postal before this book to get the full flavour and understanding of the key characters.

Brilliant, with a court room scene near the end to die for.

Finally!
After a few below-Pratchett standard books, which may have been fun but didn't have the depth - we have finally seen TP return to the best of his form. Admittedly, there has been a change of style since the first Discworld books but now that the fusion has matured the story was engaging, the characters interesting and there was a storyline worth exploring!

In Making Money we meet adventure-seeking Moist being given the 'choice' to run the Royal Bank of Ankh Morpork. And what can a guy like that like that enjoy more than given an impossible task of doing something he knows nothing about, not even the dangers. Having a bunch of relatives grown up on and attached to money who want nothing more than your blood for breakfast is just a tip of the iceberg. Of course, Vetinari 'steering' things makes thing just a lot more interesting.

So I say read and rejoice!

Still Pratchett, but not a classic.
Let's be honest, any Pratchett fan will have to admit that Moist von Lipwig looked to be the Discworlds next big character. Going Postal was one of TP's best "newer" books and that was almost exclusively down to the lovable rogue that is (or was) Moist. Where Vimes had began to grow stale, up popped Moist; another anti-hero persona, but from a completely different angle.

Making Money was set to capitalise on the new character, but in this it failed. Just like Vimes before him, Moist has become dull, with his 'key to the city' (as Postmaster) and lack of worthwhile opposition the sense of suspense that kept him on his toes in the first book has pretty much vanished.

The books problems don't end with Moist. Whilst reading through you get the distinct impression that you have been cheated out of a fresh storyline. Making Money, whilst maybe not a carbon copy, runs much too similarly to Going Postal. Having read Going Postal you can pretty much tell where Making Money is going from the first chapter.

On the plus side, the story runs reasonably well and contains much of Pratchett's quirky comedy (mirroring our own 'Roundworld' in a way to exaggerate our own absurdities), but it doesn't feel like a classic Discworld. The plot is just too samey and the characters a little too set in their ways to offer much intrigue.