Going Postal

Name: Going Postal
Rating: 4.59 (142829 reviews)
Author: Terry Pratchett

Discworld • Book 33

by Terry Pratchett

Narrated by Stephen Briggs

4.59 ABR Score (142.8K ratings)

★ 4.41 Goodreads (136.8K) ★ 4.81 Audible (6.0K)

11h 23m Released 2005 Fantasy

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Stephen Briggs turns a con man running a post office into one of Pratchett's most purely satisfying listens.

Great if you want: sharp satire wrapped in a caper with real warmth
Listening experience: brisk and funny with a surprisingly earnest emotional core
Narration: Briggs is the definitive Pratchett voice — character voices are crisp and distinct
Skip if: you need high fantasy stakes over comic bureaucratic chaos

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About This Audiobook

Con artist Moist von Lipwig faces the hangman's noose until the Patrician offers him a choice: die, or resurrect Ankh-Morpork's hopelessly broken postal service. The job involves hostile postal workers, a murderous semaphore company, mountains of undelivered mail, and a clockwork golem who may be his conscience. Terry Pratchett's thirty-third Discworld novel won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, showcasing the series at peak form.

Stephen Briggs has been reading Pratchett's Discworld for decades, and his performance here captures both the satire's bite and the warmth underneath — a combination that requires precise calibration to land. His Moist has the energy of a born performer discovering something larger than the next con. At just over eleven hours, the production delivers everything that makes Discworld great: genuine invention, comedy that earns its laughs, and a surprising amount of heart. One of the series' finest entries.