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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Great!, 23 Nov 2007
So many great books and movies have lampooned the industries we love to hate: The film "All About Eve" comes to mind, with it's take off on how exactly people get to be stars and the sleaziness of the movie industry, as well as McCrae's book, "Katzenjammer" which is a behind-the-scenes look at the world of publishing. Enter "Making Money," a send up of the banking industry, cash, and all that goes with those worlds. Pratchett is at once funny and cynical, knowing and assuming, cloy and brilliant. This book runs the gamut from dark despair to rollicking laughter and everything in between. You'll cringe at parts too familiar and laugh out loud at others (maybe both at the same time?). Pratchett is one of the best authors around today and you can't go wrong with this book. Also try anything else in "Discworld." Would also recommend the books: DO ANTS HAVE ARSEHOLES? and the novel DON'T STOP ME NOW.
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45 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
Not up the the usual high standard, 4 Oct 2007
All through this book I kept thinking to myself "this can't really be Pratchett". It feels more like something written by a good imitator. All the standard jokes are there, the characters are those we've come to know and the plot burbles along, skipping from plot device to plot device in normal fashion. Unfortunately its all a bit flat.
The standard jokes aren't so funny now that they've been rehashed so many times; the characters are more cardboard cut-out than engaging, well fleshed personalities; and the cliff-hanger at the end of each couple of pages soon seems contrived and annoying.
Moist von Lipwig is bored now that he has got the post office running efficiently and no one is trying to kill him. Seeing this and realising that someone is needed to sort out the Royal Bank, Vetinari contrives, predictably, to get Lipwig on the job. From here on the whole book plods along in pedestrian fashion. The reader's smiles are few and far between and the laughs simply don't come at all. All in all this book is nothing new, nothing very interesting and nothing at all surprising. Pterry appears to be simply coasting and fans will be disappointed.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Good book..but not his best, 1 Oct 2007
I was really looking forward to this one. I expected a new, gripping adventure in the life of Moist von Lipwig. However, I was quite disappointed. While as far as books go, it's very good, with hilarious plots and storylines, it's not brilliant. Pratchett has begun to reuse many jokes, such as "The leopard can change his shorts". While brilliantly funny at first, when it gets used again and again, it becomes both less funny this time, and takes away the humour from the first time.
It was also quite a slow paced book. I found that actually, nothing really happened until the last quarter or so of the book. And to be honest, the plot line wasn't that much different from Going Postal. A good book, and definitely a good read, there's no doubt about it, but not his finest work.
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