Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

 

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I've read Going Postal so many times it's certainly attained the rank of one of my favourite Discworld novels let alone one of the best from Terry Pratchett. The story if fairly straight forward as Moist Von Lipwig aka Albert Spangler is sentenced to death for fraud and other financial crimes however Lord Vetinari never wastes a resource. As the "Clacks" run by The Grand Trunk fails to serve the good of the city Moist is given the job of resurrecting the Post Office a task he at first has no real interest in but soon realises that he can make a lot of legal profit and skim some of the top and the bottom as he goes along. What Moist failed to realise is how invested he would become with the people and the city and finds himself the unwitting champion of the citizenry.
As Terry is prone to do you will certainly see many clear links to the world today and many more fairly subtle ones, the Discworld is a mirror to our own and yet it never fails to entertain and enlighten while just making pause and think. This novel can easily be read as a standalone tale of the Discworld but many of the characters appear in the later Making Money and become part of the fabric of this wonderful world Terry left us.

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