Books & Beer: "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett

Reading the book is not required, but it sure makes the conversation more interesting! Nothing required. Just come ready to sit and chat about a book!

Don't forget to think about what you would like our next read to be, At the end of the meetup, we'll go around the circle and share our recommendations and decide which one wins out by simple popular vote.

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Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet.

It was a tough decision.

But he has to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.

Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.

Maybe it'll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it's a death sentence either way.

Or perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope...