{"id":543,"date":"2007-09-23T17:13:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T17:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=543"},"modified":"2024-02-05T21:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:17:56","slug":"pratchett_36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/09\/pratchett_36\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett, Terry: (36) <cite>Making Money<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Terry Pratchett&#8217;s <cite>Making Money<\/cite><\/strong> is a sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/06\/pratchett_terry_14.php\"><cite>Going Postal<\/cite><\/a>. Having gotten the Post Office working smoothly, Moist von Lipwig is going crazy with boredom. Nevertheless, he&#8217;s turned down Lord Vetinari&#8217;s offer to run the Royal Bank, when external events force him to take it&mdash;much to the displeasure of the family who owns 49% of the Bank, and is one life away from owning it all&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, this was perfect for a train ride home after the culmination of an exhausting couple of weeks. It has a dog, some good improvisational moments from Moist, and a number of sentence-level jokes that made me smile. On the other, it felt kind of empty in the middle. It reminds me a bit of recent <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/category\/genre\/mystery\/dortmunder\/\">Dortmunder novels<\/a>: not much happens, but in an competent and entertaining way. Except that <cite>Going Postal<\/cite> was so packed with happenings that this book suffers in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Harper should be ashamed of itself for once again publishing a Discworld book in which the number one (1) is substituted for a capital letter i (I) and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a spoilerly remark (ROT13; see sidebar): qbrf nalbar ryfr guvax zbvfg jvyy raq hc cngevpvna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Making Money is a sequel to Going Postal. Having gotten the Post Office working smoothly, Moist von Lipwig is going crazy with boredom. Nevertheless, he&#8217;s turned down Lord Vetinari&#8217;s offer to run the Royal Bank, when external events force him to take it&mdash;much to the displeasure of the family who owns 49% of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/09\/pratchett_36\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pratchett, Terry: (36) <cite>Making Money<\/cite>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,64,15],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-discworld","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-pratchett-terry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}