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Interesting Times

(Discworld Novel 17)

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Interesting Times

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
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Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before.

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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'Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre'
'Imagine a collision between Jonathan Swift at his most scatalogically-minded and J.R.R Tolkein on speed... This total mess of- I suppose- a novel, is the joyous outcome'
'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy... Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own'
'Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh'
'Like Dickens, much of Pratchett's appeal lies in his humanism, both in a sentimental regard for his characters' good fortune, and in that his writing is generous-spirited and inclusive'
'This spinner of crazy science-fiction tales is a very sophisticated jester'
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I was thrilled by the narration of this. love this chap's voice work. champion.

fabulous narration

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Brilliant narration! Rincewind is my favourite anti-anti hero. Loved the book, Listening to it adds another dimension…

Colin Morgan is Rincewind

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Loved the book...what can i say it's a Pratchett novel!

Peter Serafinowicz is sublime as Death.
Colin Morgan is a fantastic narrator, even though I still love Nigel Planer and Stephen Briggs very very much, it was certainly interesting hearing his interpretation of some of the characters like Rincewind, Cohen the Barbarian and Lord Hong however my delight was complete when I heard the accents for Fourex....it was fantastic, one of the best I've heard haha 😄

Excellent Story Brilliant Narration

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I loved all of it! I highly recommend listening to this exciting and wild story. The characters are well developed and performed.

A hilarious story brought to life

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I love and cherish this story. The old audio books are amazing other than the quality of the recordings, so I'm trying to give this a go, but the narration is horrid. the candence is wrong. The voices are uninspired, misrepresent the characters, and are quite grating and just needlessly high-pitched for the most part. It's genuinely unpleasant to listen to in some parts.

hard to listen to

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