Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:23:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Pratchett
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Michael Walsh wrote:
> > 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...

Fortunately it is better than the review.  It's much lighter-hearted in
many ways than the last few.  The developments of the Discworld version of
the Internet - the Clacks - are worth the price of admission, in my
opinion.

=Tamar Lindsay, piggybacking on Dick's account