But he runs away and towards interesting times and dangerous situations. The most relatable hero, that man. Who wouldn’t run away when confronted by the kind of things he run into.

Spot on. It’s a good penultimate book.

Is it possibly because I came over from lemmy.world?

I do like The Last Continent! To me, the level of absurd hijinks there is about the same as Going Postal - not my favourite, but it seems to be beloved. There were more posts talking about the exploits of Moist anyway. Now, why is that? Is it the case, that Moist von Lipwig has a lot of vocal fans and Rincewind, our early hero, is not as popular anymore?