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The Last Continent

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
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The audiobook of The Last Continent 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.

'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.'

Rincewind, inept wizard and reluctant hero, has found himself magically stranded on the Discworld's last continent.

It's hot. It's dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one believes in any more. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right?

And in a few days, it will die. The only thing standing between the last continent and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, and he can't even spell wizard. Still...no worries, eh?

he Last Continent is the sixth 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.

©1998 Terry Pratchet and Lyn Pratchet (P)2022 Penguin Audio

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"A minor masterpiece. I laughed so much I fell from my armchair." (Time Out)

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Very good

I'm reviewing this before I've finished listening. These were released today and I've seen some bad reviews already. I was dreading it after seeing the first reviews but I was pleasantly surprised. A nice lilting Northern Irish voice for the main narration, his choice of voices is good and so far I'm very happy with this purchase. So I would suggest making your own mind up about these and don't take too much notice of bad reviews. This is far better, imo, than the Andy Serkis version of Small Gods, which had some frankly weird choices of accent

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Bad Preformance

Going from Nigel Planer to this is such a disappointment. It's preformed as if it were a book for 6 year olds.

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Bring back the old audiobooks please

I’ve just started this audiobook but I am fuming. As a long time fan of what Stephen Briggs did with the narration (and Nigel Planner) of the discworld novels, to hear this was like pouring shards of glass through my ears.
Look, if you’re going to re-record these to suit a younger audience (below teenage years), then at least keep the old version around for the old timers too.
It feels like the witty verve of a Discworld book is dumbed down by the slow pacing of Colin Morgan’s many voices (I loved him in Merlin but he’s just not it for this one, not like this), to the point where the smart and funny bits get drowned in a sea of: oh, I am listening to a kids’ play, I think. It’s like they didn’t trust the content on its own so they added a lot of bells and whistles and whatnots.
And my biggest gripe!!!! (Yes, this warrants the crazy use of !!!) — Bill Nighy, as wonderful as he can be on screen, is a terrible choice for narrating the footnotes, and not just because of they way it’s edited into the audiobook so it feels very jarring and out of place, but because the man sounds absolutely bored. The overall result is that the production feels like something a bunch of amateurs decided to create in their garage and they were missing one cast member so they cajoled their older brother to the footnoted for the promise of some beers at the end of it. The sound quality itself is rather odd considering this was recorded recently.
I am just… horribly disappointed.

I will finish the audiobook, because this is one of the few Discworld novels I have yet to read/ listen to, and now I probably can’t find the old audiobook version for it. But I will have to grind my teeth.

Giving a Discworld novel anything other than a 5 star is painful, and I would have never done such a thing had it not been for this terrible recording. Well done Penguin, on a job well bungled.

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But who is reading Ponder Stibbons?

Ok, so this book is amazing (which is true for the vast majority of the Discword novels). I listened to it one time and then I listened again while driving from Holland to Poland (it’s a 12-hour drive, fits just perfectly) and then I listened some more. And every time you discover something new and you laugh and it’s great but who is reading Ponder Stibbobs? Seriously, I have a little crush but I don’t know who my crush is, so could someone let me know it, please (gosia.perz@gmail.com)? Muchas gracias! :)

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Brilliant

One of my favourite Pratchett novels and I love this re-recording. Colin Morgan is an excellent audio actor and the way Death and the footnotes are handled is very amusing. Highly recommended.

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A great story!

Really enjoyed this one. It is always great to hear the adventures of Rincewind and the Wizards

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Sheer joy

Colin Morgan is an absolute revelation as the voice of the Rincewind series - a vocal genius, bringing the stories to life

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Great Fun

I enjoyed this as much if not more than the other Rincewind books. Beautifully written, laugh out loud funny in places and brilliantly performed / narrated. Really cheered me up!

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No Worries

I have lost track of the numbers of voices Colin Morgan finds for another superb “Rincewind” series story. That they were all first to be found in the mind of the great Terry Pratchett is even more remarkable. No worries with this series! (Michael).

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Fantastic narration

The wizard series is a fantastic project and what it makes it stunning is the narration portrayed by the great, talented and multi voice Colin Morgan! A series to own and listen from time to time.

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