| Title | Going Postal |
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| Publisher | Corgi Books |
| Year | 2004 |
| ISBN | 0 552 14943 8 |
| Genre | Fantasy/Comedy |
| Started | 23rd Feb 2006 |
| Finished | 28th Feb 2006 |
| Rating | ■■■■■■■■■□ (9/10) |
Back Cover
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.
It's tough decision
But he's got to see that the mail gets through, 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 Dearheart would be nice, too.
My Review
This is Terry Pratchett's 29th Discworld novel.
Like all his books, most of the humour is in the connection to present day situations & problems. It is the story of bringing a dead Postal service back to life in the face of competition from 'modern' technology.
Here we have a story about Linux, GNU, Hackers, Viruses, Internet, email, Encryption, Microsoft, etc etc but not one single of these words is used. It so clever how the similarities can be seen.
I can recommend any of Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels, this one I especially enjoyed. I haven't read a Discworld Novel for many, many years so initially I wasn't sure if my enjoyment would come from a feeling of nostalgia, but I was quickly over this as I was pulled into the story.
On more than one occasion, I found myself 'laughing out loud' on an underground carriage full of strangers. Very embarrassing....
