Terry Pratchett's Going Postal - Differences From The Book

Differences From The Book

• Adora Belle Dearheart attempts to get the post office golems to go on strike in the movie.
• Adora Belle Dearheart helps Lipwig control Boris the horse, and then goes along for the ride.
• Moist knows that Angua is a werewolf in the movie, while in the books he does not discover this until halfway through Making Money.
• The characters of Anghammarad, Tiddles, Miss Maccalariat, Death, and Gladys as well as other minor characters (like Gilt's associates) are removed.
• The whole "New Pi" subplot is removed, including Bloody Stupid Johnson's trans-dimensional letter sorting machine which caused the original collapse of the post office
• Reacher Gilt is present when the Clacks message sent by Moist is read out. Mr Wilkinson reads instead of Collabone, and the reading takes place in the square instead of the Great Hall.
• Moist makes a speech as he is about to be hanged at the reading. This did not happen in the book.
• The explanation of the golden suit and the initiation test are both removed.
• The previous four postmen are killed by Mr Gryle instead of the time warp.
• Moist's character is changed, with him seeing visions.
• In the film the race between the clacks and the post office is to Uberwald, not Genua as it is in the book.
• The timeline is different. Adora Belle says that her brother died three years ago in the movie, not one month ago. The backlog of the mail is several decades' worth in the book and only four years' worth in the movie.
• The book delivered in the clacks-post race is different, in the book it is the book "Haruspex's Big Directory of Varying Dimensions", not a biography of Havelock Vetinari.
• In the book Moist offers to several gods, included the then little known Anoia, while in the movie he only offers to Offler.
• In the movie Moist is directly responsible for causing a bond crisis that leads to Adora's family losing the Clacks while in the book they lose it because of a scheme by Gilt and his associates.
• In the movie, Adora is adept at using the clacks and also fulfills part of the role of the "Smoking Gnu" (with a pun at her tobacco habit, no less). In the book, she does not know anything about how the clacks works.
• In the book, the "crackers" are persuaded out of sending the network-blocking message they devised. In the movie, not only the exploit is discovered by Adora, but is successfully sent out - however, the current clacks engineer eventually manages to patch the vulnerability.
• Crispin Horsefry is killed directly by Reacher Gilt in a rage, after Mr Gryle has been killed. In the book, Gilt sends Mr Gryle to deal with him.
• Reacher Gilt forces Mr Pony to accept his changes to the clacks by threatening his niece, Princess. In the book, he simply confuses Pony into believing he's making concessions, and there is no suggestion Mr Pony and Princess are related.