His shoulders caught fire and a red mist filled his vision but the block slid out, with a faint and inappropriate tinkling noise. Moist sat down facing the wall, gripped the iron ring in both hands, braced his legs against the stones on either side, and heaved. It was the large and heavy stone that was currently the object of his attentions, and at some point a huge staple had been hammered into it as an anchor for manacles. Fortunately, no one ever came to change the bedding here, or else they would have discovered the world's heaviest mattress. So far the work had taken him five weeks, and reduced the spoon to something like a nail file. To the world in general, and particularly on that bit of it known as the death warrant, he was Albert Spangler.Īnd he took a more positive approach to the situation and had concentrated his mind on the prospect of not being hanged in the morning, and most particularly on the prospect of removing all the crumbling mortar from around a stone in his cell wall with a spoon. The man going to be hanged had been named Moist von Lipwig by doting if unwise parents, but he was not going to embarrass the name, in so far as that was still possible, by being hung under it. They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that it is in a body that, in the morning, is going to be hanged.
Going Postal is the first book in the Moist von Lipwig series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.In which our Hero experiences Hope, the Greatest Gift - The Bacon Sandwich of Regret - Sombre Reflections on Capital Punishment from the Hangman - Famous Last Words - Our Hero Dies - Angels, conversations about - Inadvisability of Misplaced Offers regarding Broomsticks - An Unexpected Ride - A World Free of Honest Men - A Man on the Hop - There is Always a Choice 'One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The Times Who happens to be very attractive, in an 'entire womanful of anger' kind of way.īut there's new technology to compete against and an evil chairman who will stop at nothing to delay Ankh-Morpork's post for good. To save his skin, Moist will need to restore the postal service to its former glory, with the help of tough talking activist Adora Belle Dearheart.
The Post Office is down on its luck: beset by mountains of undelivered mail, eccentric employees, and a dangerous secret order. It's a tough decision, but he's already survived one hanging and isn't in the mood to try it again. Imprisoned in Ankh-Morpork, con artist Moist von Lipwig is offered a choice: to be executed or to accept a job as the city's Postmaster General. 'Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.'
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