Interesting Times
Discworld, Book 17
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Narrated by:
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Colin Morgan
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Peter Serafinowicz
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Bill Nighy
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By:
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Terry Pratchett
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
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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Critic reviews
"Pratchett is a comic genius." (Daily Express)
"Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre." (Observer)
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- Julie B
- 28-06-24
As always, excellent
All perfect! Voices and story just go along perfectly. Very immersive, like the whole series.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-07-22
Annoying ‘bings’ before and after footnotes, WHY.
Pretty much all in the title, why have you kept these bings from the old version, worst thing about them and totally unnecessary- the change of voice is sufficient to indicate the footnote. There is nothing wrong with the performances from the actors, but this little jingle completely ruins it. I was really looking forward to these releases and I’m now, frankly, a bit gutted.
Update: this particular book doesn’t have too many footnotes so it’s been bearable! Side note - Love the Voice of Death in this version.
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- Martin Keller II.
- 03-12-23
Not a good performance
Story is, as all Pratchett’s books, superb. But in this case it suffers a little bit from a subpar production. I personally prefer the old Nigel Planer’s version, even though the audio quality is abysmal and could get away with a remaster.
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- Charmster
- 03-04-24
Great listen
Brilliant story, expertly read and voiced. Highly recommended read from the gifted pen of Terry Pratchett
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- Lbr5
- 17-03-23
Brilliant.
I’ve read this book a couple of times and the story’s great but it was read REALLY well.
All the characters were sympathetically portrayed with no duds.
Definitely worth listening to
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- tom t.
- 22-10-23
Excellent
Rincwind And Conan together. Lots of fun and a good story. As usual Pratchett has woven a tail over three continents with his usual panache and humour.
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- John B
- 09-09-24
Highly imaginative
The narration brings out the colourful characters of the author’s witty imagination. Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this.
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- Rita Lazzerini
- 14-08-22
Interesting story!
I was just thinking over and over on what Colin Morgan said at the presentation of The wizard series: he said that he records even up to 10 hours being in the same place and chancing his voice according to the characters. Only a very talented and organized narrator can make it! And the results are these fantastic audiobooks of Discworld!
And before recording a lot of work it is required to prepare adequately!
I’m so enthusiastic about this series!
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-03-23
Fire the narrator
Don't get me wrong, the narrator is pretty good his variety of voices are perfectly fine, unfortunately it is obvious he hasn't read the book prior to recording, if he had he would have known that people from the counterweight continent are the Discworld equivalent of the far East namely China and Japan and NOT vaguely American. Through the course of reading the penny drops for the narrator and he seems to realise his mistake and the Agateans start to sound like a badly dubbed 80s kung-fu movie. Its not just down to the narrator, I wonder where the quality control was, who listened to the recording and allowed it to be released?
I'm so happy I've got the original recording and I hope to god, Om, Offla and Annoya that the Watch series isn't butchered in the same manner.
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- Kirsty
- 23-07-23
Best book yet!
This is the fifth diskworld book I have read/ listened to and is the best one yet. This narrator nails the characters and had me laughing out loud.
(I know you’re supposed to be able to read the books in any order but I would recommend ‘The Colour of Magic’ before this one to get to know the characters.)
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