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| Making Money (Discworld) | 
 enlarge | Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (101 reviews)
Sales Rank: 66182
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0061161640
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780061161643
ASIN: 0061161640
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
Release Date: September 18, 2007
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Not as good as the norm, but not bad at all. February 14, 2008
Terry Pratchett was not, perhaps, in top form for Making Money. The story kind of rambles, and Moist kind of pulls the same game from Going Postal all over again. However, this shouldn't overshadow the fact that Making Money is still a very funny read, with the same usual suspects (an increasingly human and increasingly funny Lord Vetinari, for example) and a few new characters that had me laughing out loud more than once. Definitely worth the purchase price.
 3 1/2 Stars for Going Postal Sequel February 11, 2008
Moist the more or less reformed con man from Going Postal is back and picked by Lord Vetinari to be head of the Central Bank and the Mint. It is a good story and in the average range for Patchett (that's praise). I like the Watch and DEATH best in the Discworld series but Moist is OK and I like Vetinari's cool calm control and allows him to be feared without ever actually having to torture people (much). Not a sparrow falls that Vetinari doesn't know about it and it's fun to see him in action. It's the details that make the Discworld books. In this one the Mint is a collection of artisans and making the equivalent of a silver dollar takes about two days for one of the few craftsmen. The book is not as funny as Prachett's best but moves along and has it's share of laughs, certainly more than are found in any other current author's works I've come across. If you like the series you'll like this book and if this will be your first look at Ankh-Morpork you could do better but you'll like it anyway.
Moist has lost a step January 29, 2008
When I read Going Postal I was being introduced to a tortured soul who had to keep running, because someone was probably catching up to him. He was interesting. He was so very human. He *had* to do the things he did. His highs and lows (bipolar?) were something to see. The story of money and greed and the soul of business was interesting too. I couldn't put it down. I nearly wept when I read about Sending Home and the last message on the clacks.
This time out, I never got close.
Oh, don't get me wrong, Making Money is still one hell of a good story. Pratchett can hardly not write one anymore. But that spark that made it all work and made it great, Moist fighting for something he believed in (for a change) and the tragedy of the clacksmen (and women), was stirring. Banks just don't have the same effect on me, I guess.
We find Moist von Lipwig still at the Post Office, eminently respectable, in fact about to be made actually Respectable (it includes an almost gold watch) by the local Chamber of Commerce. The Post Office is now an unqualified success, to the point that stamps are now a de facto currency. A de facto currency, in fact, because no one has any trust in the banking system anymore. The banks have not moved with the times (it is the Year of the Prawn, or something) and need some shaking up.
Enter Moist von Lipwig. Well, maybe not by choice, but he definitively enters.
Watch him struggle with the Mint, banking, temperamental artists of debatable sanity, an Igor, Ventinari, conservative lending practices, invading golems, small dogs and, um, mechanical sausages, all the while trying to move banking into modern times and dodging a probable contract put out on him by the Guild of Assassins.
It's still one hell of a good story, it's just not as human as I've come to see Moist.
Good book, minor Kindle edition flaws January 24, 2008
Others have reviewed at length about the minutiae that makes the book good or bad. I liked it, but I also liked -Going Postal- a great deal. I suspect if you like that, you'll like this (and read -Going Postal-, if you haven't already). It's more or less a retread, albeit a relatively high-quality one.
Unlike others, I'm a fan of the heavy Vetinari involvement. I think he's a fascinating character, and see him as one of the primaries in the "Moist" cycle, such as it is. Some people like witches, some like guards. I like Machiavellian politicians. Go figure.
I should mention that the Kindle edition lacks linked footnotes. I actually thought that perhaps Pratchett had stopped using them, but then found them at the end, after the copyright page. The Kindle has facilities to hyperlink properly to footnotes, but, sadly, the book wasn't constructed that way. Luckily, there were only a few (which I assume were all of them) and they weren't terribly funny, at least out of context.
 DELIGHTFUL DISCWORLD January 21, 2008
THE LATEST DISCWORLD STORY IS ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL AS USUAL.IF YOUR NOT FAMILIAR WITH TERRY PRATCHET'S DISCWORLD STORIES YOUR MISSING SOME GREAT SATIRICAL LITERATURE.TRY SOME SOON ,YOU'LL BE HOOKED.W.U.
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