Guards! Guards!
Discworld, Book 8
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Narrated by:
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Jon Culshaw
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Peter Serafinowicz
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Bill Nighy
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Ben Aaronovitch
About this listen
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'It was the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis; half of them were here to complain, a quarter of them were here to watch the other half, and the remainder were here to rob, importune or sell hotdogs to the rest.'
Insurrection is in the air in the city of Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again.
Captain Sam Vimes of the city's ramshackle Night Watch is used to this. It's enough to drive a man to drink. Well, to drink more. But this time, something is different - the Have-Nots have found the key to a dormant, lethal weapon that even they don't fully understand, and they're about to unleash a campaign of terror on the city.
Time for Captain Vimes to sober up.
The Discworld novels can be listened to in any order but Guards! Guards! is the first book in the City Watch series.
'This is one of Pratchett's best books. Hilarious and highly recommended' The Times
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Beautiful
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And thank you penguin for the new recordings. Having Nighy and Serafinovicz for the footnotes and Death is inspired and adds real texture to the recording. I always found it frustrating heading another actor reading Death particularly as if was always them doing a deep throat impression where as Serafinovicz just has such a rich voice. Perhaps James Earl Jones can do the American version!
Fantastic New Recordings
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Excellent fun.
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Only two provisos, but these are personal opinion only: I will always now picture Vimes as Sean Bean in Sharpe, the voice was an exact replica. But Vimes was born and bred in Ankh-Morpork, so why is his accent different to the others also born and bred there and all pretty much of the same social class? It works in this narration though. And I was not keen on Nobby’s voice, but only because I had imagined it very differently. As I said: opinion only.
Excellent reading
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Great listen
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Wonderful to restart Discworld with my old mate Sam
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what a start to the series
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Great storytelling
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Jon is brilliant
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Guards! Guards! Sir T P New Penguin release 2023
I’ve read the books. I’ve listened to the books the original recordings made digital for our dumb phones. Spoiler if you’re new to Sir Terry Pratchett’s books i) welcome ii) where in the hells have you been? and iii) stop reading this review I don’t want to spoil the magnificence of all the Discworld books and audiobooks.
Still reading? Well don’t blame me. Jon Culshaw has a gift of changing his voice. What he’s done here is awful. A bad Les Dawson impression does for Captain Sam Vimes. What!? (Don’t know Les Dawson? try that place for videos of everything you know youThingy)
Cpl. Nobby Nobbs is at least twenty years younger than Sgt. Fred Colon but sounds 20 years older. Is Mr Culshaw a fan of the Discworld? It doesn’t appear so. Age difference proof Nobby and Fred? Try Night Watch Nobby is a grubby little street urchin and Fred is in the Watch having served in the military already. Carrot’s voice is okay. For a thin wiry tall man Havelock Vetinari, the Patrician his voice sounds too deep and slow he’s swift of hand and swifter in the mind and would speak quickly enunciating clearly and sharply as his mind.
Based on this outing I won’t preorder any other books until I can hear a sample. I’ll stick with my original collection for now.
It’s an opportunity missed or misguided.
I’ve read the books. I’ve listened to the books
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