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Making Money (Discworld)
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Release Year
- 2007
- ISBN
- 9780061161643
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061161640
ISBN-13
9780061161643
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59051661
Product Key Features
Book Title
Making Money
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Fantasy / General, Fantasy / Humorous, Absurdist, Fantasy / Action & Adventure
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Discworld Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-029272
Reviews
"Typically outlandish fun . . . [a] polished, supremely confident performance . . . Like the best of its predecessors, Making Money balances satire, knockabout farce and close observation of human--and non-human--foibles with impressive dexterity and deceptive ease. The result is another ingenious entertainment from the preeminent comic fantasist of our time." -- Washington Post "Terrific . . . Pratchett trots out some favorite old characters and delightful new ones as he deftly skewers our economic system and the way in which we view money. At this point in the Discworld series, the old characters feel like familiar old friends, and it's always fun to see them in new contexts, while the new characters are interesting enough that one hopes to see more of them in future novels . . . Go out and buy this book because it's funny and thought-provoking and entirely enjoyable." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Just when you think you've got everything figured out, Pratchett goes in a completely unexpected direction, opening up new questions about power and empire while incidentally laying fertile groundwork for yet more stories to come. Because even though Making Money is the 36th Discworld novel, Pratchett isn't resting on his laurels. . . . What makes this and all the Discworld books special, though, is their humanity. . . . It's [his] big-heartedness that makes these novels so smart, so moral, so good." -- The Guardian "After 36 books, it's no surprise that Pratchett is adept at maneuvering characters and plotlines to make what could easily be a royal mess run as smoothly as Moist's post office. What is amazing, though, is the consistency with which he does it . . . . This sense of humor is the driving force in MAKING MONEY, infusing each sentence with jokes and puns." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Non-stop wit . . . Pratchett is a master of juggling multiple plotlines and multiplying punchlines, and Money is a wondrous farce." -- USA Today "Pratchett's eye for using and dissecting the cliche is still as much in evidence as ever." -- Financial Times "No one but Pratchett would have the nerve--or skill--to make the theory of fiat currency the subject of a comic fantasy. He makes it look so easy, as he embeds the economic argument within a swift-paced story involving golems and gold, necromancers and lap-dancers, a set of killer false teeth, political chicanery and lots of good jokes. . . . Clever, engaging and laugh-out-loud funny." -- London Times "Splendid . . . an educational and entertaining mirror of human squabbles and flaws." -- Publishers Weekly "Just as Going Postal somehow made the streamlining of mail delivery in a quasi-medieval fantasy world utterly riveting, so too here Pratchett creates fine entertainment out of the machinations of a dismal science . . . Lipwig is a brilliant scalawag of a hero, and Pratchett's taste for dry one-liners remains prodigious." -- Kirkus Reviews "Highly enjoyable, fast-paced, and funny." -- Library Journal "[Pratchett] leavens the book with plenty of laugh-out-loud humor, guest appearances by familiar series players, and some lines that rival the best of Oscar Wilde. Anyone who can keep a straight face throughout Making Money needs to have their funnybone examined!" -- Locus, "Outlandish fun. . . . Making Money balances satire, knockabout farce and close observation of human--and non-human--foibles with impressive dexterity and deceptive ease. The result is another ingenious entertainment from the preeminent comic fantasist of our time." -- Washington Post "Terrific . . . Pratchett trots out some favorite old characters and delightful new ones as he deftly skewers our economic system and the way in which we view money. . . Go out and buy this book because it's funny and thought-provoking and entirely enjoyable." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Just when you think you've got everything figured out, Pratchett goes in a completely unexpected direction, opening up new questions about power and empire while incidentally laying fertile groundwork for yet more stories to come. Because even though Making Money is the 36th Discworld novel, Pratchett isn't resting on his laurels. . . . What makes this and all the Discworld books special, though, is their humanity. . . . It's [his] big-heartedness that makes these novels so smart, so moral, so good." -- The Guardian "After 36 books, it's no surprise that Pratchett is adept at maneuvering characters and plotlines to make what could easily be a royal mess run as smoothly as Moist's post office. What is amazing, though, is the consistency with which he does it . . . . This sense of humor is the driving force in Making Money, infusing each sentence with jokes and puns." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Non-stop wit . . . Pratchett is a master of juggling multiple plotlines and multiplying punchlines, and Money is a wondrous farce." -- USA Today "Pratchett's eye for using and dissecting the cliche is still as much in evidence as ever." -- Financial Times "No one but Pratchett would have the nerve--or skill--to make the theory of fiat currency the subject of a comic fantasy. He makes it look so easy, as he embeds the economic argument within a swift-paced story involving golems and gold, necromancers and lap-dancers, a set of killer false teeth, political chicanery and lots of good jokes. . . . Clever, engaging and laugh-out-loud funny." -- London Times "Splendid . . . an educational and entertaining mirror of human squabbles and flaws." -- Publishers Weekly "Just as Going Postal somehow made the streamlining of mail delivery in a quasi-medieval fantasy world utterly riveting, so too here Pratchett creates fine entertainment out of the machinations of a dismal science . . . Lipwig is a brilliant scalawag of a hero, and Pratchett's taste for dry one-liners remains prodigious." -- Kirkus Reviews "Highly enjoyable, fast-paced, and funny." -- Library Journal "[Pratchett] leavens the book with plenty of laugh-out-loud humor, guest appearances by familiar series players, and some lines that rival the best of Oscar Wilde. Anyone who can keep a straight face throughout Making Money needs to have their funnybone examined!" -- Locus
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
"Outlandish fun. . . . Making Money balances satire, knockabout farce and close observation of human--and non-human--foibles with impressive dexterity and deceptive ease. The result is another ingenious entertainment from the preeminent comic fantasist of our time."-- Washington Post The hero of Going Postal has an even more dangerous job than the mail: overseeing the tanking Royal Bank and the printing of Ankh-Morpork's first paper currency in this brilliant installment in New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld series. The Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork is facing a crisis, and who better to manage it than the man who turned around Ankh-Morpork's inefficient Post Office, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig. Lord Vetinari once again makes Moist an offer he can't refuse: resuscitate the venerable Royal Mint. The bank has many problems: the chief cashier is almost certainly a vampire, the elderly chairman and her two loaded crossbows needs a daily walkie, there's something strange happening in the cellar, and running the Royal Mint is costing a mint. As Moist begins to make some ambitious changes, he accrues some dangerous enemies. Everyone knows money is power--and certain stakeholders will do anything to keep a firm grip on both . . . The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Making Money is the second book in the Moist von Lipwig series. The full series, in order, includes: Going Postal Making Money Raising Steam, "Outlandish fun. . . . Making Money balances satire, knockabout farce and close observation of human--and non-human--foibles with impressive dexterity and deceptive ease. The result is another ingenious entertainment from the preeminent comic fantasist of our time."--Washington Post The hero of Going Postal has an even more dangerous job than the mail: overseeing the tanking Royal Bank and the printing of Ankh-Morpork's first paper currency in this brilliant installment in New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld series. The Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork is facing a crisis, and who better to manage it than the man who turned around Ankh-Morpork's inefficient Post Office, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig. Lord Vetinari once again makes Moist an offer he can't refuse: resuscitate the venerable Royal Mint. The bank has many problems: the chief cashier is almost certainly a vampire, the elderly chairman and her two loaded crossbows needs a daily walkie, there's something strange happening in the cellar, and running the Royal Mint is costing a mint. As Moist begins to make some ambitious changes, he accrues some dangerous enemies. Everyone knows money is power--and certain stakeholders will do anything to keep a firm grip on both . . . The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Making Money is the second book in the Moist von Lipwig series. The full series, in order, includes: Going Postal Making Money Raising Steam, The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like . . . well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start and end on time; five out of six letters relegated to the Blind Letter Office ultimately wend their way to the correct addresses. Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, former arch-swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations--including his own. So it's somewhat disconcerting when Lord Vetinari summons Moist to the palace and asks, "Tell me, Mr. Lipwig, would you like to make some real money?" Vetinari isn't talking about wages, of course. He's referring, rather, to the Royal Mint of Ankh-Morpork, a venerable institution that haas run for centuries on the hereditary employment of the Men of the Sheds and their loyal outworkers, who do make money in their spare time. Unfortunately, it costs more than a penny to make a penny, so the whole process seems somewhat counterintuitive. Next door, at the Royal Bank, the Glooper, an "analogy machine," has scientifically established that one never has quite as much money at the end of the week as one thinks one should, and the bank's chairman, one elderly Topsy (nee Turvy) Lavish, keeps two loaded crossbows at her desk. Oh, and the chief clerk is probably a vampire. But before Moist has time to fully consider Vetinari's question, fate answers it for him. Now he's not only making money, but enemies too; he's got to spring a prisoner from jail, break into his own bank vault, stop the new manager from licking his face, and, above all, find out where all the gold has gone--otherwise, his life in banking, while very exciting, is going to be really, really short. . . .
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- u***u (3580)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Ultimi 6 mesiAcquisto verificatoI only received disc 2 on initial delivery. Missing disc 1. Seller quickly responded to my email and after a few email exchanges we were able to locate disc 1 still in sellers inventory. Seller quickly sent it out to complete my order. Terrific customer service. I can definitely recommend this seller to all eBay buyers!
- b***r (684)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Mese scorsoAcquisto verificatoSeller shipped out item packaged very securely & it arrived in very good condition. The dvds are in much better condition than described in the description & appear to be new. Very good value for the price paid & monies go to charity. AAA+++ seller! Highly recommend.