Going Postal

British farce. Seriously.”
    San Diego Union-Tribune
    “A first-class delivery from an old master.”
    Daily Mail (London)
    “This stand-alone novel happily reunites the reader with some of Ankh-Morpork’s recurring characters…while primarily introducing new characters, new situations, and new laughs. New (and twisted) one-liners, newer (and more twisted) punch lines…Welcome back to Discworld, Pratchett’s favorite comedy playground…Laughing at (or with) the Postal Service never felt so good!”
    Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader
    “It’s a weird (Disc) world after all, and not miles away from our own.”
    Fort Myers News-Press (FL)
    “We are all going postal…but only Terry Pratchett can make us laugh about it…Delightful…The plot, though it rattles along, is secondary to the pleasures of the writing…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.”
    Times of London
    “Pratchett’s latest special-delivery delight, set in his wonderfully crazed city of Ankh-Morpork…Readers will cheer…Thanks to the timely subject matter and Pratchett’s effervescent wit, this twenty-ninth Discworld novel…may capture more of the American audience he deserves.”
    Publishers Weekly (* Starred Review *)
    “His inventiveness—with people, with plots, with things—is seemingly inexhaustible…Pratchett always gives you more than you dare expect…Pratchett can make you giggle helplessly and then grin grimly at the sharpness of his wit…He knows that terrible things exist and happen, and he invents a benign otherworld in which we can face them, and laugh.”
    A.S. Byatt
    “Read it and laugh, but don’t forget your brains.”
    Locus

B OOKS BY T ERRY P RATCHETT
    The Carpet People
    The Dark Side of the Sun
    Strata • Truckers
    Diggers • Wings
    Only You Can Save Mankind
    Johnny and the Dead • Johnny and the Bomb
    The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Jollife)
    Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
    T HE D ISCWORLD ® S ERIES:
    Thud! • Going Postal
    Monstrous Regiment • Night Watch
    The Last Hero • The Truth • Thief of Time
    The Fifth Elephant • Carpe Jugulum
    The Last Continent • Jingo
    Hogfather • Feet of Clay • Maskerade
    Interesting Times • Soul Music • Men at Arms
    Lords and Ladies • Small Gods
    Witches Abroad • Reaper Man
    Moving Pictures • Eric (with Josh Kirby)
    Guards! Guards! • Pyramids
    Wyrd Sisters • Sourcery • Mort • Equal Rites
    The Light Fantastic • The Color of Magic
    The Art of Discworld (with Paul Kidby)
    Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins)
    The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Pratchett Portfolio (with Paul Kidby)

Copyright
    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    GOING POSTAL . Copyright © 2004 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    EPub Edition © NOVEMBER 2007 ISBN: 9780061807190
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