Going Postal - Libros.Fedi.CR

352 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 21 de septiembre de 2004 por Doubleday.

ISBN:: 978-0-385-60342-3
Goodreads:: 833468

(2 reseñas)

Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig, instead of hanging for his confidence crimes, is given the job of Postmaster by supreme ruler Lord Vetinari. Resuscitating the moribund Postal Service might be an impossible task, with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every part of the broken-down post office building. Worse, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him.

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𝓣aarion 📕 reseñó Ab die Post de Terry Pratchett (Scheibenwelt, #33)

Die Menschen wollen betrogen werden...

4 estrellas

... Das könnte zumindest die Einstellung des Protagonisten sein.

Ab Die Post ist amüsant. Richtig herzhaft gelacht habe ich aber erst im Finale der Geschichte. Was soll ich noch mehr sagen? Es ist halt ein Pratchett: bissig und mit einem guten Blick für die Unzulänglichkeiten der menschlichen Gesellschaft.

Themen in diesem Buch sind: - Philatelie - Golems - Trickbetrug - Internet + Hacking - Wirtschaftskriminalität

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Nastja reseñó Going Postal de Terry Pratchett (Discworld (31))

Enjoyable but very flawed

3 estrellas

Advertencia de contenido spoiling part of the main story

An easy and exciting read, but: 1. The book is drenched in casual sexism and fatphobia 2. There is an underlying current of support for the state and a belief that state power is, at the end of the day, good. Kinda understandable given the ultracapitalist usamerican context, but it is still a reactionary idea and the book still promotes it in the narrative. Still, this was an enjoyable experience overall. Reading Terry Pratchett is fun. Oh, and the whole thing about working conditions being awful in the Grand Trunk and them changing bc of an external savior, the protagonist, and not bc of labor organising and unions and strikes. It's a reactionary narrative as well, but it does make for an exciting story.

Temas

Discworld (Imaginary place) -- Fiction.
Postal service -- Fiction.
Civil service -- Fiction.