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Guards! Guards!

Discworld, Book 8

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Guards! Guards!

By: Terry Pratchett, Ben Aaronovitch - afterword
Narrated by: Jon Culshaw, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy, Ben Aaronovitch
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Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before

'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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I loved this book for all of its clever dialogue, engaging characters and of course Terry Pratchett’s keen style for imaginary plot lines plus twist and turns. The narration was top notch and a pleasure to listen to. Highly recommended!

An amazing book and narration

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This is one of my favourite Discworld books but I hesitated to buy it because I already had the hard copy. Boy I'm so glad I did! The character voices were just spot on, easily distinguishable and capturing the essential personalities of each individual. The narrator really hit the sweet spot with pacing and expression to bring out the humour or emphasise the serious moments. Loads of fun and made me fall in love with Sam Vimes all over again.

Narrator brought the characters to life

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Not what I was expecting, but really enjoyed it, was a lot more real in the characters themselves.

Guards Guards

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Well narrated, really enjoyed listening, read the book a long time ago and enjoyed the audiobook just as much.

Good work!

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The Watch is my favourite discworld series, and Vimes is my favourite character(as many others would no doubt attest, too), so I had quite a high bar set for these, especially after the stellar job Coyle had done with the von Lipwig books. When I saw Jon Culshaw was narrating, I breathed a sigh of relief(love his work), and he outdid himself here. Thank you Jon, for doing absolute justice to these characters that are so important to so many of us.
The Watch can stand proudly alongside the new Witches and Industrial Revolution series’ as the best of the bunch.

Better than I’d hoped for ❤️

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I’ve been on tenterhooks wondering who would be voicing these characters in these new recordings. I’ve been reading these books for a couple of decades now so the voices in my head are really embedded. Thank goodness for the voice characterisation skills of Jon Culshaw. Once I had played with the playback timing (made it a little faster) I sat back and enjoyed every minute. And thank goodness, finally, that Lady Sybil is voiced as a person rather than a pantomime dame.

Really enjoyable

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Great listen, but at times the voice choices just didnt feel right for the characters

Exceptional Story, delivery mixed

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TP has an imagination and sense of humour like no one else. This audiobook performs the book very well

A Favourite

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An amazing journey in and out, this story really took me for a ride and was my very first fantasy novel, I would highly recommend this for anyone who like fantasy

Amazing

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People have been telling me for more than three decades to read a Pratchett novel. Now that I finally have I can appreciate the hype.

Unlike many books people enjoyed in their teen’s which then fail to age with you into adulthood I think this one is timeless.

Worth the wait

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