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Interesting Times

Discworld, Book 17

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Interesting Times

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
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Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before.

The audiobook of Interesting Times is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Testament of Youth; Belfast). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually; Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace; Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan.

'There is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times . . .'

This is the worst thing you can wish on a citizen of Discworld. Especially for the magically challenged Rincewind, who has already had far too much excitement in his life.

Unfortunately, the unlucky wizard always seems to end up in the middle of, well, absolutely everything. So when a request for a 'Great Wizzard' arrives from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's obviously Rincewind who's sent. For one thing, he's the only one who spells wizard that way.

Once again Rincewind is thrown headfirst into a dangerous adventure. For the oldest empire on the Disc is in turmoil and Chaos is building. And, for some reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a vital role in the coming war . . .

Interesting Times is the fifth book in the Wizards series, but you can listen to the Discworld novels in any order.

The first book in the Discworld series - The Colour of Magic - was published in 1983. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this.

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"Pratchett is a comic genius." (Daily Express)

Captivating Humor • Engaging Storytelling • Excellent Narration • Entertaining Adventures • Witty Satire
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Colin Morgan has blown me away with his character voices. They all are truly well done, except for one. The voice for Mustrum Ridcully was so wrong. It was the most jarringly wrong voice I have listened to so far in all of these new audiobooks. It's not particularly bad, but anyone who knows and loves Ridcully will be disappointed. Come on Colin! Stephen Briggs did it right.
I am also starting to love Peter's voice for death.

Morgan is great with character voices, except...

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You can't go wrong with Discworld and this is no exception. the production quality is also excellent.

Rincewind never fails to amuse

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Happy to be enjoying another Rincewind adventure. Great story telling and narration! On to the next!

Great story and performance

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Great storytelling with captivating humor and detail…detail upon detail, fun puns and satire. Relaxing to listen to the marvelous narration.

Storytelling w/ Wit

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I was excited when I heard audible was recording the old discworld books to improve on the poor recordings of the early books. And this is well produced and the reader talented. But I found the character voices pretty grating. I had to stop halfway through. Sort of wish they would have had Briggs re-record the early books,

A fine attempt, but not Stephen Briggs

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Colin Morgan does an Awesome job with narration. The story itself is superb, of course...it's Terry Pratchett AND Discworld, so that's a given.

excellent narration

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Some of the voices started sounding the same when the Barbarian’s teacher and Rincewind, and the grand Vizier (?) all start talking together. There wasn’t enough differentiation between those voices. They all sounded like Rincewind. Other than that I really enjoy Colin Morgan’s voice.

It kind of threw me off a little

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The book is funny and delightfully mesy with many different characters and lotsnof insight, as is usual in Pratchett's satire on society. The voices and storytelling are excellent.

Really good reading

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I love Terry Pratchett’s sense of humor and creativity. Always entertaining.

I cannot say the same about the voice actors. When I am able to read a book none of the characters ever sound that annoying. Some of the voices were just excessive. With all the death in this book I highly doubt this is a kids book wherein one would need to pitch their voice so much. Adults do not require the extra tones. As an audiobook some of the voices were piercing. Luckily Terry’s stories are good enough to carry it through. Not a fan of the multiple voice actors nor of the music inserts. If I didn’t have to drive so much it would have been a much better actual read.

Typical entertaining and funny Terry Pratchett

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Rincewind gets reluctantly sucked back into another discworld adventure and blunders his way to another victorious result.

it's another great Since wind story

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