Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:49:52 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Pratchett, not Ptatchett was Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> omni at omniphile.com 4/26/2005 3:37:40 PM >>>
>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.

It could be the Terry Pratchett Blank Book and it would sell...

mjw