Since I had a bit of time before I went to the library, I decided to reread another book – Making Money by Terry Pratchett. It’s one of the Discworld Ankh Morpork books, but it stars the ex-conman Moist von Lipwig (instead of being part of the Watch series).

At the start of Making Money, Moist has managed to reform the postal service and make it a respectable situation. He’s also very bored. So Lord Venitari, everyone’s favourite dictator, has a suggestion – why not take over the Royal Mint and the bank next door? Naturally, Moist runs from this dangerous suggestion, but Venitari has his ways and Moist soon finds himself trying to transition Ankh Morpork from hard money (money backed by the gold standard) and fiat money (money issued by the government Lord Venitari/Moist that isn’t backed by any standard). Oh, and he has to take the chairman of the bank, a dog, for walks and try to convince his girlfriend not to keep rescuing golems.

So I generally have two opinions about Discworld:

1. The first few books are not as funny as the latter books, becuase Pratchett takes a while to hit his stride
2. Your favourite book(s) will depend on your favourite characters, because there are so many mini-series in Discworld

And basically both my opinions hold true about this book because while I definitely found this funny (and funnier than say, the Rincewind books), this is not my favourite because my favourite character groups are the Watch and Witches.

My favourite part of this book is easily the economic factor. It’s been a while since I last studied the theory of money, so I quite enjoyed the part where Moist tries to move Ankh Morpork from the gold standard to fiat currency. It does seem that Ankh Morpork is moving in the same general direction as us people on earth, but with a twist since they’re located on a disc carried by four elephants who are standing on a giant turtle.

Overall, this was a fun reread! If you’re not familiar with Pratchett’s Discworld series, Making Money may be a good starting point since by this point, Pratchett had already gotten past the bumpy first few books AND you don’t have to be familiar with the other mini-series to enjoy this.