Reddit reviews Going Postal (Discworld)

Do not start with The Colour of Magic (Discworld Book 1).

Many recommend starting on Guards! Guards! (the first in the Watch series), and I started there and fell in love. I recommend Going Postal (which introduces Moist von Lipwig and serves as a great intro to Ankh-Morpork and the Discworld in general).

Lspace (the Discworld wiki, you'll learn to love it) has recommended reading orders but the graphics are a bit out of date.

So, are they going to adapt "Going Postal"?

"Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses -- until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into... a government job

By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position -- and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely.

Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money-hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt.

But it says on the building neither rain nor snow nor glo m of ni t ... Inspiring words (admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen), and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what's called for, he'll do it -- in order to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every human being (not to mention troll, dwarf, and, yes, even golem) requires: hope."

> I am an industrial medic

Nice one, you're one of the good guys then. I thought for a horrible minute there that you were in advertising.


> 2009 in short. Major debt owed to the Province, was engaged but am now single.

Both kinds of bad :(

> Terry Pratchett

I enjoyed Going Postal so you could start there.

> Polar bear, hands down if it is in the Polar bear's natural habitat. No shark can lve for long after being pulled up onto an ice shelf to be carved alive.

That's why I said on neutral territory - bit like virtual reality.

Going Postal - Terry Pratchett.

Going Postal

Reaper Man because it was my first but I recently read Going Postal again and really enjoyed the hell out of it.