![]() ![]() The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Going Postal is the first book in the Moist von Lipwig series. ![]() Perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope. ![]() Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too. Year: 2010 Rating: 7.7 Plot: Based on Terry Pratchetts 33rd Discworld novel involves a skillful con artist Moist Von Lipwig who finds the tables turned and. But there are people who still believe in it, and Moist must become one of them if he's going to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, an evil chairman. 7.49 Ebook Free sample About this ebook arrowforward A splendid send-up of government, the postal system, and everything that lies in between in this newest entry in Terry Pratchett’s. The post is a creaking old institution, overshadowed by new technology. Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put the ailing postal service of Ankh-Morpork – the Discworld’s city-state – back on its feet. But hes got to see that the mail gets though - come rain, hail, sleet, do. The post was an old thing, of course, but it was so o ld that it had magically become new again. Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morporks ailing postal service back on its feet. The Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is. 'One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The Times ![]()
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