{"id":4919,"date":"2019-04-01T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2019-03-31T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T13:06:19","slug":"mark-reads-making-money-chapter-9-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2019\/04\/mark-reads-making-money-chapter-9-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;Making Money&#8217;: Chapter 9, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second half of the ninth chapter of <i>Making Money<\/i>, Moist has a lot of problems. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read <i>Discworld<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, this escalated, and it did so in a very rapid space of time. Half a day passes, and I feel like&#8230; like ten pairs of shoes are all gonna drop at the same time. Cosmo knows the truth about Moist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s past; the <i>Times<\/i> article still isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t out; gold is missing from the bank; Hubert is freaking out; the Watch suspects something terrible is happening; Adora Belle is in jail. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the precipice of something, but I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what that is! And then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mr. Bent, and I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T GET HIM.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, let me start with Moist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interrogation with Captain Carrot. To me, this served not only as a nice summary of everything that had happened, but once you strip everything of context, this truly sounds like the most absurd situation ever. Like, we totally understand why Moist had to break into his own vault even though he had the keys! But to Carrot and the Watch as a whole, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come across that sensibly, so Moist has to turn on the charm and his ability to persuade others, which all don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work on someone like Carrot. Oh, I just <i>loved<\/i> this pairing because Moist was rendered useless in less than a minute. Carrot is brilliant and straightforward and completely disarming, and thus, Moist stumbles his way through an interrogation that actually isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that difficult! But as much as Moist has a way with people, so does Carrot.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But on a craft level, this interaction is simply hilarious. Because the <i>Discworld<\/i> universe is so huge and detailed, I find it entertaining when characters from different \u00e2\u20ac\u0153series\u00e2\u20ac\u009d interact with one another. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case here, and I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned this in other contexts. Sometimes, we see Vimes and the other Watch members through the eyes of others, like in <i>The Truth<\/i>. Moist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s view of Vimes, Carrot, Nobbs, and Angua fascinates me! We know what these characters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 internal lives are like, but Pratchett does this amazing thing where he reminds us that no one looks the same on the outside as they do on the inside.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, how about Cosmo and Cribbins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partnership? Big pile of NOPE, right? Oh, I already don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like this, but I feel like there are two possibilities for this subplot. Cosmo now knows the truth about Moist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s past as Spangler, and he is most surely going to use it. Well, I think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try. If he succeeds, I imagine that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be some sort of twist or means of letting Moist be honest <i>without<\/i> it tanking his career. Should it? I mean&#8230; that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not really up to me but the people he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s affected with his scams and his cons. Has he done enough for Ankh-Morpork that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re willing to turn the other way regarding his past crimes? But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also curious if Vetinari\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho surely <i>must<\/i> have figured out who Cribbins is by this point\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwill quietly intervene to prevent this information from getting out at all. It can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make him look good, right? He staged an execution, and then gave the criminal a job running both the post office and the bank? So, he has a vested interest in keeping this from the general public. Bah, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know yet!<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know what kind of golems are coming!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kind. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a specific <i>kind<\/i>. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m assuming that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a kind we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen or had referenced yet, so&#8230; fun! Clearly this is going to be fun. By \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fun,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I mean \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deeply chaotic.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Which is a great descriptor for this whole book! Look, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still the whole nightmare with the Glooper, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m curious if Hubert <i>did<\/i> decide to tank Ankh-Morpork\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy by making the gold disappear. Did he really destroy that part of the Glooper? Does he believe that he <i>can<\/i> put the money back? OR HAVE I COMPLETELY MISREAD THIS? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my take, but I know I might be wrong about this since it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen on the page.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is one part of this all that was quite striking to me. This has been a really, really fun book, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve appreciated that most of it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t as emotionally intense as many of the recent <i>Discworld <\/i>books. It landed at the perfect time for me, since my life is a little bit too intense right now. But I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ignore how powerful it was to see Moist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vulnerability at the end of this chapter. He has been alone for most of his life, and he likes it that way. He has also relied on himself to accomplish everything, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meaningful to me that as his life is falling apart around him, he asks someone else for help. Yes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the god of things getting stuck in drawers, but it still felt so <i>real<\/i>. Moist finally had no plan out of this mess, no way through to the end, and while he might just wing it, I enjoyed that he asked for help. Sometimes, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the best thing that you can do.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q7FhtmQo08g<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markoshiro.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/19\/the-anger-is-a-gift-paperback-edition-is-out-may-7-2019\">The paperback edition of my debut, ANGER IS A GIFT, is now up for pre-order!<\/a> It comes out on May 7, 2019.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>If you&#8217;d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ey636\">sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second half of the ninth chapter of Making Money, Moist has a lot of problems. Intrigued? 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