“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.” This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Annotations for the book Going Postal. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks.” ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal. Registered number: 861590 England.Registered office: 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 2SA UK.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.”
Buy Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33) (Discworld Novels) by Pratchett, Terry (ISBN: 9780552167680) from Amazon's Book Store. “Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.” Everything became money, and money became everything. “I commend my soul to any god that can find it.” Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.” Welcome back. It's hope, turned inside out. “Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.” You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. “Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?” 69 likes. He had acquired at thirty an impressive selection of chins, and now they wobbled with angry pride. “In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.” By page number. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. * Part 2: As Moist and Reacher compete for the hearts and wallets of Ankh-Morpork, Adora devises a plan to avenge her brother.
We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.” “It was also a room full of books and made of books. That was how much they didn't care.” Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.” “See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.” “Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Terry Pratchett's Going Postal is a two-part television film adaptation of Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Richard Kurti and Bev Doyle and produced by The Mob, which was first broadcast on Sky1, and in high definition on Sky1 HD, at the end of May 2010. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.” ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal. “But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. People like a show.” “There was no safety. Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.” And you know you'll die falling.” It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Sir Terry Pratchett The life and works of Sir Terry Pratchett OBE ― Terry Pratchett, quote from Going Postal “Mr Horsefry was a youngish man, not simply running to fat but vaulting, leaping and diving towards obesity. “Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.” I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Apart from, say, the average voter.” Some books are better than others. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.” Apart from, say, the average voter.” Back to Series Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, Going Postal: Part 2. This is one of them.
Just put your hands together and hope.” These cookies do not store any personal information.Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. Watch world-class TV from Britain and beyond Always available, always commercial free start your free trial Watch Trailer. Like “And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books.
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… and a midnight killer.Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.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…The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Going Postal is the first book in the Moist von Lipwig series.‘Pratchett’s joy in his creations, in jokes, puns, the idea of letters and language itself makes Going Postal one of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention.’ All images on this page are copyright Penguin Random House except the following images:©1995 - 2020 Penguin Books Ltd.
It's a tough choice.The post was an old thing, of course, but it was so old that it had magically become new again.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 is a creaking old institution, overshadowed by new technology.