Making Money (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Making Money (Discworld)
Book Review: A far cry from Pratchett at his best.
Summary: 3 Stars
As always Terry Pratchett writes an captivating story about Disc World. While highly entertaining, compelling and readable it is not his best work.
Perhaps the second book to involve the loveable rogue Moist Von Lipwig comes too soon after Going Postal and Moist certainly doesn't show as much flair managing the Royal Mint as he did with the Post Office.
While Going Postal felt like riding the roller coaster with Moist as he twists in and out of situations, Making Money is more like the carousel: fun in a subdued and slow kinda way.
Another worrying trend with the Disc World novels is repetition. While Pratchett is building upon the DiscWorld universe with new characters and ever evolving Ankh Morpork, I don't feel he is doing it in new ways. There are several reused analogies, synonyms and jokes from past books. I can understand how keeping things consistent from book to book gives us the reader a sense of familiarity and that the story is part of a continuing universe. However we do not need anymore jokes in the format "He was so
While with the earlier books I was frequently laughing out loud, this time there were merely the occasional chuckle. Sorry to have to say this book is no where near the excellent standard of Pratchett at his best and is just passably ordinary.
Bring back the Witches and Wizards I say.
Book Review: Genius - Terry is as clever as Leonard of Quirm
Summary: 5 Stars
Won't go on too much but as always laugh after laugh. Do not read the Discworld novels on a train, people look at you like you're mad.
This book continues the unputdownable tradition of Pratchett (2 days for this one) and I hope to see the tax office get the Moist treatment as soon a possible.
Buy and Enjoy!
Book Review: Good book..but not his best
Summary: 4 Stars
I was really looking forward to this one. I expected a new, gripping adventure in the life of Moist von Lipwig. However, I was quite disappointed. While as far as books go, it's very good, with hilarious plots and storylines, it's not brilliant. Pratchett has begun to reuse many jokes, such as "The leopard can change his shorts". While brilliantly funny at first, when it gets used again and again, it becomes both less funny this time, and takes away the humour from the first time.
It was also quite a slow paced book. I found that actually, nothing really happened until the last quarter or so of the book. And to be honest, the plot line wasn't that much different from Going Postal. A good book, and definitely a good read, there's no doubt about it, but not his finest work.
Book Review: Fortuitous mistake
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book as a complete mistake. I saw the the title in similar items and bought it without reading the description. I treated myself it in a flurry of self-help/popular psychology books, after reading a great book called Making Time, assuming it would be something similar.
In my ignorance, I'd never read any Terry Pratchett before. But I've enjoyed this a lot. It's so entertaining and easy to read and full of great ideas. If his other books are better that this, I'll have to read them too.
Book Review: Not up the the usual high standard
Summary: 3 Stars
All through this book I kept thinking to myself "this can't really be Pratchett". It feels more like something written by a good imitator. All the standard jokes are there, the characters are those we've come to know and the plot burbles along, skipping from plot device to plot device in normal fashion. Unfortunately its all a bit flat.
The standard jokes aren't so funny now that they've been rehashed so many times; the characters are more cardboard cut-out than engaging, well fleshed personalities; and the cliff-hanger at the end of each couple of pages soon seems contrived and annoying.
Moist von Lipwig is bored now that he has got the post office running efficiently and no one is trying to kill him. Seeing this and realising that someone is needed to sort out the Royal Bank, Vetinari contrives, predictably, to get Lipwig on the job. From here on the whole book plods along in pedestrian fashion. The reader's smiles are few and far between and the laughs simply don't come at all. All in all this book is nothing new, nothing very interesting and nothing at all surprising. Pterry appears to be simply coasting and fans will be disappointed.