mirthfulrealist:

mirthfulrealist:

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

Don’t ask about Mrs. Cake.