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A review by ketreads
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
3.0
Another Terry Pratchett hit!
This book came highly recommended from my brother, a very well-read Terry Pratchett lover. So, when I saw this gorgeous edition in my local Waterstones for a ✨️STEAL✨️, I couldn't help but buy it.
As always with Pratchett's work, I loved the humour. He has such a fantastic method of weaving dialogue and descriptions to humourise the mundane to the ridiculous. As a big fan of wit and word-play in comedy, his humour is always well received. Though, in this book, at least, it had the added downside of often making confusing and one-off characters / events confusing to follow. I'd often be unsure of what reality was and what was over the top for humours sake until the joke was complete. This had a few moments of importance fall flat for me.
Overall, I loved the character of Moist and the setting of the library. I only wish we had more time with the letters and their actual DELIVERY rather than the shinnanigans surrounding them. This ended up with me loving the premise more so than I loved the book itself. It doesn't help that the ending is extremely anticlimactic, which was a bit of a disappointment. It's all round, a fun read but not one I LOVED personally.
This book came highly recommended from my brother, a very well-read Terry Pratchett lover. So, when I saw this gorgeous edition in my local Waterstones for a ✨️STEAL✨️, I couldn't help but buy it.
As always with Pratchett's work, I loved the humour. He has such a fantastic method of weaving dialogue and descriptions to humourise the mundane to the ridiculous. As a big fan of wit and word-play in comedy, his humour is always well received. Though, in this book, at least, it had the added downside of often making confusing and one-off characters / events confusing to follow. I'd often be unsure of what reality was and what was over the top for humours sake until the joke was complete. This had a few moments of importance fall flat for me.
Overall, I loved the character of Moist and the setting of the library. I only wish we had more time with the letters and their actual DELIVERY rather than the shinnanigans surrounding them. This ended up with me loving the premise more so than I loved the book itself. It doesn't help that the ending is extremely anticlimactic, which was a bit of a disappointment. It's all round, a fun read but not one I LOVED personally.