Office and the Royal Mint and Bank, Adora Belle runs the Clacks and has made it an equal opportunities employer, also hiring golems and Goblins. TV adaptation In the Sky TV adaptation, von Lipwig was portrayed by actor Richard Coyle. Coyle is also due to narrate the Moist von Lipwig series of Discworld novels, adapted by Audible. Reception The character was included in a list of the top ten Discworld characters by The Daily Telegraph in 2013; Tim Martin states that the character "gives Pratchett the opportunity for some of his finest satiric stabs at modern culture". In a review of Making Money for The Guardian, Patrick Ness describes von Lipwig as "a fresh new character" written "to poke serious fun at City institutions". Jim Shanahan, in a chapter on Pratchett's works, describes the character as a "reformed con-man" who "drives technological change". Amy Lea Clemons, in a chapter on Discworld, describes von Lipwig as a "complicating character"; she comments on his use of language to deceive his audience and states that the character presents a contrast with the "more rigid ethical rhetorics" of Granny Weatherwax, Sam Vimes and Carrot Ironfoundersson. Michelle West, in a review of Going Postal for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, describes von Lipwig as "the anti-Vimes; he's not a man who believes, and hates believing in a world that gives him so little purchase; he's a man who doesn't believe. In anything./ Which is part of what makes the book so satisfying". Kirkus Reviews, in a review of Making Money, describes von Lipwig as a "brilliant scalawag of a hero". References External links Moist von Lipwig article in Discworld & Pratchett Wiki Discworld reading order - The Industrial Revolution Discworld characters Literary characters introduced in 2004 Fictional con artists Fictional people sentenced to death Fictional postal workers