a government job Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be an impossible task. It has a flavour, a texture that simply cannot be produced any other way. ( 333 ratings ) About this audiobook Arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig never believed his crimes were hanging offenses - until he found himself with a noose around his neck, dropping through a trap door, and falling into. Artists spent weeks, for example, addressing the two million envelopes lining the corridors with real Discworld locations. The 33rd installment in acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchetts Discworld series, a splendid send-up of government, the postal. It comes as no surprise to learn that an unusual (in modern terms) amount of it was filmed on set rather than digitally created. A more febrile and endearing mass of nerves, loyalty and pin love I shall surely never meet.įrom the giant golem that imprisons and protects von Lipwig to the tiny clay-coloured beetles that infest the postmaster's long-abandoned desk, every scene is bursting with lovingly realised detail. Ian Bonar deserves a special award for his turn as pin aficionado – or "pinhead" – Stanley Howler.
The streets are lined with fantastical, tottering buildings that seem almost-but-not-quite to deny the laws of physics, and every performance seems to cleave to the same principle – climbing vertiginously but never quite going too far and overbalancing. Kindle 7.99 Rate this book Discworld 33 Going Postal Terry Pratchett 4.40 118,162 ratings4,061 reviews Moist von Lipwig was 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. Terrys latest book, Nation, a non-Discworld standalone YA. It's all boundlessly clever, joyful and exuberant. A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller, and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback (Harper Torch, 2006) and trade paperback (Harper Paperbacks, 2006).
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