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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9846922" data-attributes="member: 11760">I'm finishing up Making Money today and it's fantastic, Pratchett at the height of his powers. And something I didn't notice the first time around, when Pratchett was still alive, is that he gives us a clue to where Moist von Lipwig was heading next after this novel, should Pratchett have lived long enough to see it through. (He apparently was working on up to 10 Discworld novels in various states when he died. They were destroyed, per his wishes.)At the end of Making Money, Vetinari discusses with Drumknott the need for new blood over at [ISPOILER]the tax office[/ISPOILER], and explains that the [ISPOILER]current chief tax collector[/ISPOILER] is apparently something of a violent thug. It would have been interesting to see how Pratchett tackled [ISPOILER]taxation [/ISPOILER]and, presumably, [ISPOILER]tax reform[/ISPOILER] in the context of Discworld. Something for Discworld RPG GMs to take up, I guess.I'm reading about six Discworld novels a year, interspersing them with other works so I don't use them up too quickly, so I should be done with this re-read of all the novels before December. After that, I'll be going through the collected supplemental works, like Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, etc., and then Rihanna Pratchett's supplemental book about witches.</blockquote>