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Books : Making Money (Discworld Novels)
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780061161650
ISBN: 0061161659
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Studio: Harper
Sales Rank: 7684
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Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like . . . well, not like a government office at all. Now the supreme despot Lord Vetinari is asking Moist if he'd like to make some real money. Vetinari wants Moist to resuscitate the venerable Royal Mint—so that perhaps it will no longer cost considerably more than a penny to make a penny.
Moist doesn't want the job. However, a request from Ankh-Morpork's current ruling tyrant isn't a "request" per se, more like a "once-in-a-lifetime-offer-you-can-certainly-refuse-if-you-feel-you've-lived-quite-long-enough." So Moist will just have to learn to deal with elderly Royal Bank chairman Topsy (née Turvy) Lavish and her two loaded crossbows, a face-lapping Mint manager, and a chief clerk who's probably a vampire. But he'll soon be making lethal enemies as well as money, especially if he can't figure out where all the gold has gone.
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But you know that. If you've read any Diskworld novels, you're familiar with the insane cast of characters, the wonderful convoluted plots, the comedic pace of six or seven quotables a page* (when other funny writers are lucky to get one every page or two at best), and the meticulously crafted backstory that chugs along with its own peculiar but consistent causality.
The lovely thing about Diskworld novels is that you don't need to read them in order, to Get It. You can read them in ... Read More
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Mr. Lipwig did so well with that last dirty thankless job, repairing the moribund mail system, that Lord Vetinari has another for him: repairing the moribund banking system. When he interviews with the soon-to-be-late head of the bank, Mrs. Lavish, she declares him a thief, trickster, bunco artist, and liar. The perceptive old lady understands that these traits qualify him perfectly to create an economy from essentially nothing - which is what generations of self-serving bank directors have left in ... Read More
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Terry Pratchett is absolutely fabulous, and "Making Money" is an excellent follow-up to Moist Von Lipwig's adventures. A must read for any Pratchett fan.
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Terry Pratchett has slowly but surely been bringing Discworld in general and Ankh-Morpork in particular up to the "real" world (or at least a Victorian equivalent) and in Making Money takes on one of the few remaining barriers: the economic system. Since most cynics will agree that money-driven economy is a scam, who better to do this than one of Discworld's premier con artists, Moist Von Lipwig (previously seen in the excellent 'Going Postal')?
Alas, something doesn't quite click in this ... Read More
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Making Money is a Discworld novel and features the Man in the Golden Suit, Ankh-Morpork's Postmaster Moist von Lipwig.
Moist is bored. He misses his old, more adventurous life, back when he was Albert Spangler the con artist. So when he's not running the Post Office, he likes climbing to its roof at night, and has already picked all its locks.
But when Mrs Topsy Lavish, chairwoman and owner of 50% of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork, but owner also of Mr. Fusspot the dog who owns ... Read More
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