Thoughts on Making Money so far...

[Marky Lazer]

So I commanded you to spill your thoughts on Making Money before nine coming Monday. Here is the place to do so.

 

[Pyan]

What do I say?
It's a Pratchett, Marky - not one of his best, and a bit linear, plus I think a lot more could have been done with both the Bank and the Mint, but any Pterry is worth reading.

 

[Marky Lazer]

People, people, people! It's almost a week later and I have only one report handed in. I don't want to fail y'all, but you don't leave me much of a choice now do you?

 

[Pyan]

*looks round smugly* Well, mine's in!

Have you read it yourself, Marky? or are you sticking to the published order?

 

[Marky Lazer]

The latter, kind sir.

 

[Pyan]

Good man!
In the later books, especially, there are quite a lot of references that you'd miss out on if you didn't read them in order. The Guards arc is particularly difficult to fully understand if you just dot about.

 

[Marky Lazer]

What? You're doubting my intellect?!

 

[Pyan]

Never!
But even the keenest mind can't process insufficient data - and that's what you'd have if you read, say, Thud or The Fifth Elephant before Men at Arms.

 

[Joel007]

I did, but I've re-read them all since so I'm ok

 

[Marky Lazer]

Mr. Joel, I still don't hear you spilling your thoughts on Making Money, do I?

 

[Joel007]

It was a good read

Well I was planning on re-reading it because it's a guarantee that Mr P has placed plenty of jokes in there which I haven't understood.

I thought it was the customary Pratchett brilliance of setting up a standard plot and then demolishing it with loads of strange and brilliant new ideas. There were plenty of mini parodies and astute observations about reality (as opposed to what it should be), and the characters seem so real that I really don't know how pTerry can think in so many devious ways at once.

 

[Marky Lazer]

*taps the dunce hat off Joel* Now there's my lad.

 

[Joel007]

Woohoo!

I'll have to earn it in other ways now

 

[Pyan]

Joel, did you think it was up to Going Postal?

 

[Joel007]

Well the characters weren't new in that exciting way, but I didn't mind more of the inestimable mr Lipwig
I probably did enjoy Going Postal more, but that doesn't diminish my enjoyment of Making Money.

 

[Pyan]

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it immensely. I just thought that it seemed a little umm....rushed, that's all.

 

[Joel007]

Oh I usually can't tell, I tend to get a different experience of urgency on each reading depending on whether I'm sitting in a library or in bed, or reading at a traffic light.

 

[Pyan]

or reading at a traffic light.

 

[Marky Lazer]

I tend to read Green, Yellow or Red at traffic lights.

 

[Pyan]

Or watch "The Road"....