Going Postal

Going Postal is a novel written by Terry Pratchett, who died recently at age of 66. The novel was 33th of Pratchett’s Discworld series. Discworld is a fantasyworld that is a disc on top of four elephants which in turn are on top of a giant turtle. The story focuses on Moist von Lipwig. A man who has lots of fake names. He lived his life by cheating and fooling people by using his talking skills to make them to think that they are making a good bargain.The story begins from gallows. Moist, currently called as Alfred Spangler, is being hanged. He dies, but wakes up. Lord Vetinari has given him a new chance by offering a job of postmaster at the Post Office of Ankh-Morpork. He is being followed by an ancient golem so he won’t attempt to escape. Golems are used as workers with minimum payment for all kinds of jobs. At the old and run-down Post Office Moist finds two men. Junior postman Tolliver Groat, who is really old and worked in the Post Office when it was still fully functoning, and Stanley, a young lad who is into pins. He knows everything about them and is a collector. The Post Office os full of unsent letters, some of them are many decades old, and moist is expected to deliver them and raise the Office back to it’s feet. The work is even harder with the Grand Trunk around. It’s a company that sends messages as data code between cities via clacks towers that recieve and pass messages. Moist is determined to bring down the company head Reacher Gilt, a businessman who only thinks money and his own profit. The theme is about business and financial world. I found it interesting to see how the underdog Moist von Lipwig takes out a big corporation. The book had a lot of connectons about our businessworld. I really enjoyed the story and all that was about the genre. Also the main character’s psychological skills were interesting and he felt like a man who knows about behaviour.