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Snuff

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Tony Robinson
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Summary

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.

And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.

He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment. They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. But not quite all....

©2011 Terry Pratchett (P)2011 Random House Audiobooks

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Missing the Whole

Disappointed that chunks of the book are absent from the recording, it was written as a whole and should be given the respect it deserves by recording as a whole, also not the best narrator in my honest opinion.

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Abridged, gutted and ruined.

When I read this book I thought it was wonderful. It is unusual in Terry Pratchett's books because the central thread in the plot is the horror of slavery, which is unsparingly described and condemned. But whereas many such descriptions have been written over the centuries, exposing the darkness as it should be exposed, Snuff is the book that Terry Pratchett wrote about it ... and therefore it is of course unique. Horrors happen and are unflinchingly told, but this book is set in Discworld with Discworld characters, and it is not unrelenting grimness because there is humour threaded throughout in the way that only Pratchett does through his discursive, lightly humorous observations and conversations.

Most of that has gone. I have no way to do a word count but I think that at least two thirds of the book has simply been ripped out. The abridgement has ruined this book. The heart of the story remains, but the writing is now only a pale shadow of what Pratchett wrote.

The narrator makes no blunders in pronunciation but as an actor he is simply not up to the job. We hear no trace of Vetinari's patrician silkiness, no grit in Vimes, no hint of Carrot's unconscious authority ... and so on throughout.

I urge you to listen to Terry Pratchett's books only if they are flagged as UNABRIDGED.

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Another Pratchett Masterpiece.

Brilliant. Fabulous. Samfastic Vimetastic. Sir T's stories improve with age, like a fine Vimes

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Great fun, well narrated

Like all of Mr Pratchetts books, this is humorous and very enjoyable, with touches of real world issues. Greatly narrated by Tony !

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Pratchett book at his normal brilliance.

Parallel world? Surely this could not reflect our lives , our existence ? It's so funny.

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Another wonderful Commander Vimes Book

As per usual, a fantastic story from a master writer.

the narration was good, but at some points he seems to forget which character he was voicing.

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My first Sir Terry Pratchett by audiobook

Another great tale of the legendary Commander SamVimes by the late great Sir Terry. Excellently narrated by Tony Robinson. My first ficton audio book. Wasn't sure I'd like it but loved it.

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Humorous but a serious subject

Terry covers a very upsetting issue here and although he does so with compassion, I felt uneasy dealing with it in a humorous story.

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Terry Pritchett, SNUFF

I may be totally biased as I'm an utterly devoted fan of all Terry Pratchett creations but I do particularly love the Sam Vines and Cybil characters and this one doesn't fail to delight. It's wonderful to catch up with this couple as their son is growing and exploring the world.

Love it, Love it, Love it!!!

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