Making Money

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

""Like the best of its predecessors, Making Money balances satire, knockabout farce and close observation of human — and non-human — foibles with impressive dexterity and deceptive ease. The result is another ingenious entertainment from the preeminent comic fantasist of our time.” — Washington Post.

The hero of Going Postal returns in the 36th installment of Sir Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld series! Moist von Lipwig, condemned prisoner turned postal worker extraordinaire is now in charge of a different branch of the government: overseeing the printing of Ankh-Morpork’s first paper currency.

Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like . . . well, not like a government office at all. Now the supreme despot Lord Vetinari is asking Moist if he'd like to make some real money. Vetinari wants Moist to resuscitate the venerable Royal Mint—so that perhaps it will no longer cost considerably more than a penny to make a penny.

Moist doesn't want the job. However, a request from Ankh-Morpork's current ruling tyrant isn't a ""request"" per se, more like a ""once-in-a-lifetime-offer-you-can-certainly-refuse-if-you-feel-you've-lived-quite-long-enough."" So Moist will just have to learn to deal with elderly Royal Bank chairman Topsy (née Turvy) Lavish and her two loaded crossbows, a face-lapping Mint manager, and a chief clerk who's probably a vampire. But he'll soon be making lethal enemies as well as money, especially if he can't figure out where all the gold has gone.

The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Making Money is the second book in the Moist von Lipwig series.

©2007 Terry and Lyn Pratchett; (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

A great follow up to Going Postal

if you want a continuation of going postal this book is perfect. it starts off a little odd, but once you get into the throw of the story it's great!

10/10 I really enjoyed the performance and the story!!

A Seamless Addition to a Beautiful Universe

Easily picked up by Discworld followers, I would advise an earlier title for new readers.

Great narrator, odd format

The audio book contains odd transition music, as if it were converted from an old multi-tape version.

The narrator's great though

Fun, exciting and extraordinary

Love the Discworld series, it is such a great way to dive in a different world of fantasy but still with the problem we face every day as being walking this globe world.

Very clever!

A clever introspection on so many aspects of our world. Sir Terry blends lovable characters and a humorous setting to deliver a thoughtful commentary on human interaction. Could not recommend enough to readers of all ages. Certainly one for the bookshelf.

Long Live Pratchett

Terry Pratchett does it again! He takes the dullness of the mint and banking and gives us a fun little romp that ends with pies thrown and much merriment.

How can you not love everything he does? I think the only way for that is to have no funnybone.

the music must go

love the disc world it's always better than rain.
I hated the music horribly distracting.

Highly Entertaining

Stephen Briggs is THE Discworld narrator, as far as I am concerned. He is outstanding.

The story is, of course, brilliant, perfectly paced, total brain candy. It's prime Terry Pratchett material. But Briggs' performance is what makes the audiobook actually preferable (as far as I'm concerned) to the print version.

Excellent Book

I love this book and I adore Terry Pratchett and Steven Briggs, but there's random super disruptive music in the middle of chapters sometimes. It's pretty frustrating, but as long as you have your volume control handy and you're able to skip forward 30 seconds when the awkward music comes on so you can muddle through, it's another excellent installment in the Discworld universe.

good performance predictable story

The performance was well done (though it is a bit disconcerting to hear a different performer, then on previous audiobooks in the same series). The story, however, was predictable and a bit boring. The sorry was not comedic enough to make up the deficit.