Making Money

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my beloved diskworld submitted by ferdoble on August 11, 2011, 3:49pm To describe Terry Pratchett’s books is a difficult thing to do. The disc world series is in a word fantastic. Terry Pratchett, would seem to use the disk world, to take any theme, or know story and then twist it in his own very humorous way. These are not always laugh out loud funny (sometimes they are), bur rather the sort of funny that just sort of lifts your spirits a little bit.

I will say that in some cases there isn’t always a really strong story, sometimes its just his characters moving through one of those twisted themes. I like them all, you may want to start with the Most Von Lipwig story line (“Going Postal” and then “making money”) as at least the first one has a really great story line.

I love to pepper my reading queue with these books to keep all those books that take themselves seriously fresh and interesting.

I recommend reading them ALL.

OR listening to them. The two main narrators of Terry Pratchett’s books are Stephen Briggs & Nigel Planer and they take Terry Pratchett’s phenomenal writing to a whole new level.

Continuing adventures of Moist von Lipwig submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 11, 2012, 8:20pm In "Making money" we continue the adventures of con man-turned Post Master Moist von Lipwig when city tyrant Lord Vetinari taps him to run the corrupt city bank. Read "Going Postal" first to understand Moist's background and the beginnings of his relationship with Spike. This hilarious book mocks our banking and economic systems. It is Pratchett's 36th book set on the Discworld and part of a series I and readers around the world dearly love.
The novel includes some risque humor that some parents may not feel is appropriate for their children.

making money submitted by unknown on August 10, 2013, 10:57pm 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.

I'll still grab Pratchett's next fantasy off of the shelf as soon as it appears, but the Moist von Lipwig books are definitely not up to his Night Watch-, Witch-, or Death-standard of Discworld novels.

Love the Discworld submitted by slugwhisperer on August 24, 2013, 3:13pm A good read. Makes me laugh.

Making submitted by Anthany on August 8, 2020, 11:30pm Making money

Making Money submitted by rjfernandorizzo on July 8, 2022, 6:53pm I'm so thoroughly charmed by Moist von Lipwig as a protagonist, but the highlight of this Discworld entry for me was Gladys the Golem. I kept bracing myself for her to be a punchline, and she was certainly treated as an oddity for most of the book, but ultimately hers is a story of warm acceptance. Forgive me for ever doubting noted trans advocate Sir Terry Pratchett.