_ The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Going Postal is the first book in the Moist von Lipwig series. Perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope. Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. The third adaptation of a Discworld novel for Sky, Going Postal opens with an excellently executed title sequence, easily matching many big screen films frame for frame. Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too. Set in a fantasy world, these discworld novels are laugh-out-loud funny and no matter what one is feeling, they ALWAYS give one a lift. It is terrific Written in 2005, it seems to prophesy exactly what is going on now. But there are people who still believe in it, and Moist must become one of them if he's going to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, an evil chairman. Terry Pratchetts Discworld series, of which this is one, is nothing short of wonderful. The post is a creaking old institution, overshadowed by new technology.

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put the ailing postal service of Ankh-Morpork - the Discworld's city-state - back on its feet. The post was an old thing, of course, but it was so old that it had magically become new again. 'One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is.

Terry pratchett on going postal