Making Money (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Making Money (Discworld)
Book Review: Making Money, but not making us laugh!
Summary: 3 Stars
I love the Discworld series (apart from Pyramids) and really enjoyed Going postal. I looked forward to this offering but having read itam now disappointed. You have probably read the previous reviews and what more can I say? It did feel as though someone else had written it. The characters going through the motions. Come on Mr Pratchett, give yourself a slap. Give us tales of Vimes, the witches and vetinari!
Book Review: Moist is a true hero
Summary: 4 Stars
Thoroughly enjoyable, typically Pratchettian. Don't expect any surprises, but if you love Pratchett you will love this. This is the second of his books about Moist Von Lipwig, the first being Going Postal, in which forcibly reformed criminal Moist rejuvenates the postal system of Ankh Morpork. Here Moist does the same for the banking system of Ankh Morpork. Pratchett's world gets richer and more complex the more he writes and the real joy comes from meeting old friends and finding out more about the Discworld. A few laugh out loud moments and the chance to delve more deeply into The Unseen University and the devious mind of the patrician.Book Review: fortuitous mistake
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book as a complete mistake. I treated myself to 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: Good, but not great
Summary: 4 Stars
I've said elsewhere that I think that the opening chapter of "Going Postal" is one of the finest pieces of comic writing I've read, on a par with anything P G Wodehouse or Evelyn Waugh wrote (I doubt you'd have read anything by Wodehouse about a hanging, although it might well have fallen within Waugh's range). So I had high hopes for the second appearance of Moist von Lipwig. My first impression was that this wasn't really all that good; the golem subplot seemed to sit awkwardly with the rest of the book, the old acquaintance threatening to expose Moist seemed a little superfluous, and I felt sorry for Cosmo rather than seeing him as a threat. It still seems a bit that way after a second reading. But having said that, there are still many parts of this that made me laugh immoderately, especially the scenes involving Mr Fusspot and his new toy. And Vetinari seems to be getting fleshed out nicely as a character nowadays.
If you're a devotee of Discworld, you'll forgive the flaws and maybe knock off a star. If you're not, then the best place to start is somewhere in the 20-30 range, where the writing and plotting has matured, and Terry has got into his philosophical and satirical stride. (I've never understood those people who want him to return to writing books like "The Colour of Magic", which has always seemed to me to carry far too much fantasy baggage. It didn't take long for him to get over this though - Pyramids, Mort, and Wyrd Sisters are all fine pieces of work).
Book Review: money money money
Summary: 5 Stars
If you've never read one of terry pratchett's books then this is possibly not the best place to start. this is the latest in a long long running series of novels set on the discworld, a fantasy land that's a flat planet on the back of four elephants that are on top of a large turtle. Start with the first volume, the colour of magic, and read them in order. Although lots do stand alone, and to judge from the reviews by those who aren't familiar with the series, you may be able to read this one in isolation.
I think from other reviews that pratchett may be a victim of his own high standards, and it's long term fans who seem to be slightly disappointed with this. This is the first discworld for grown ups in two years, and perhaps as a result, the break seems to have done the series good. It features moist von lipwig, conman turned by circumstance and self preservation into businessman, who first appeared in the novel going postal. in essence this is going postal all over again, with him running the mint rather than the post office instead.
Now sometimes the discworld series has felt it's getting over familiar, but then it goes and rediscovers it's funnybone. And that, perhaps because it's been two years since the last grown up discworld as mentioned, is what's happened here. although the situations and characters may feel over familiar, they are still fresh enough and well written enough to entertain. This is not laugh out loud joke every second writing, it's good fine comic writing with jokes arising out of plot and character. It's an entertaining book from a master of his craft