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God, Going Postal is SUCH a good book.
Seriously, it has everything you could hope to read about.
- Intense political intrigue
- Two interesting facts about angels
- Magical haunted mail
- “NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GL OM OF NI T WILL STAY THESE MES ENGERS ABO T THEIR DUTY”
- Literal gallows humour
- This romantic exchange: “Would you like to have dinner tonight?” “I like to have dinner every night. With you? No.”
- Charismatic con artist having to confront his sins
- A guy who looks like a pirate but really he’s a different kind of pirate
- Technological advances captured in real time
- Golems
- Unrelenting savagery against capitalism, monopoly, and privatisation
- Wizards
- An alternate Universe where Pi is exactly three
- Mrs. Cake
