
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
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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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Critic Reviews
"Pratchett is a comic genius." (Daily Express)
fabulous narration
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Colin Morgan is Rincewind
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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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A hilarious story brought to life
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hard to listen to
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his Mustrum Ridcully sounds more like Windle Poons, which is unfortunate because he use the exact same voice for Rincewind as well as other members of the faculty and Cohen the barbarian.
It’s definitely sad that Colin is not only the weakest in his narration in general but when compared to the other recent disk world narrators Colin depiction of the Wizards of the Unseen University faculty is the worst by a frankly gargantuan margin.
Every new retellings by Colin have been ever increasing lessons in disappointment with each title feeling worse than the last, to a point of which I am now trying to hunt down second hand copies of older recordings as I am tired of feeling disappointed every time I try to listen to my favourite series.
Terrible narrator, Ruins the Wizards of UU
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Classic and wonderful Pratchett
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Love it
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Good link back to previous stories
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One of my favourite Discworlds
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