Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:37:40 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ptatchett was Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 02:18 PM 4/26/05 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:

>The Amazon.co.uk description:
>"The Post Office: this musty, dusty and sh***y organisation was jolted
>back into life in GOING POSTAL, 2004's Number One Discworld bestseller,
>and out in MMP in 2005. Hidebound and rulebound, the Post Office is
>creaking towards a brave new world of efficiency - and it may even
>deliver the mail, too. Now that it has been jolted back into life, it is
>to become an established feature of Discworld life in the future - so
>established that in December 2004 it will open a branch in Wincanton in
>Somerset. Discworld stamps are already selling like ... stamps! But like
>all bureaucracies, the Ankh-Morpork Post Office has its rules and
>regulations and these, together with the history of this once-great
>department, are highlighted and parodied in the Ankh-Morpork Post Office
>Handbook. * that's of the pigeon guano type, of course."

You know, I really hope the book reads better than the review.  Maybe it's
just not being familiar with the series, but that review seems like
listening to the radio...and hitting "scan" every few seconds.  First we're
talking about the post office, then a book called "Going Postal", then back
to the post office...the real one, or the one in the story is unknown, but
next we are talking about stamps in Somerset.  Then we're in a post office
somewhere else, probably fictional, looking at their handbook, and then
it's on to pigeon shit...say, huh?

-- Mike B.
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