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Night Watch

Discworld, Book 29

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Night Watch

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Jon Culshaw, 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.

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.'

For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution.

For Commander Sam Vimes, it all feels horribly familiar. Caught on the roof of a very magical building during a storm, he's found himself back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. Living in the past is hard, especially when your time travel companion is a serial killer who knows where you live. But he must survive, because he has a job to do: track down the murderer and change the outcome of the rebellion.

The problem is: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future...

The Discworld novels can be listened to in any order but Night Watch is the sixth book in the City Watch series.

'The best Discworld book in the whole world ever. Until next time.' SFX

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Having listened to the series in order i have acclimatise to the narration. The book is still excellent

Excellent

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I've got all the old audio books but these are really different and worth the listen if you are wondering if it's worthwhile

enjoyable listen

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I was hesitant to listen to this as all the Night Watch books I have listened to we're ready by Nigel Planer. While Planer's narration was much sillier and more comedic, I don't know that it would have made this book better. It was a few chapters before I really got into it, but this narrator's voice does work very well with this story. I'm glad I gave it a chance and am now going to listen to the next book in the series.

Worth a chance!

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Hilarious but provocative and stimulating making one think about deeper issues, motivations and ethics. The narration was off scale – wish I could give it a 10!

One of the best in the Discworld series

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Jon Culshaw’s impressionist and acting skills bring Night Watch to life. It was always a deep read that needed time to allow all the subtleties of STP’s writing prowess to be fully absorbed. This Audible edition is perfect. Great listen!!

Great new addition to Sir Terry Pratchett’s Audible collection

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Night watch is my favourite Discworld book, and this is a fantastic reading of it. Loved it so much, the voice acting was brilliant, particularly Vimes. I’ve been listening to all the Watch audiobooks in order and was so looking forward to hearing this one - it was a real treat! Will definitely re-listen!

A real treat!

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This is one of my favourite stories, so I was looking forward to the new adaptation.
I was saddened by the production.
For some reason, it’s been decided that it’s deserving of the most dramatic reading of all time. For the first time, I had to speed things up, just to get it away from the pace of going to a funeral.
It’s true that this story has some of the most graphic imagery in it, even though it is a very loose detailing, but the entire thing doesn’t deserve the pace set.
And maybe I’ve listened to Stephen Briggs’ reading too much, but the voices weren’t right.
Best thing? The volume was level.

IMO, it was a massive disservice to a fantastic novel

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Love it. Such a great story. Going back in time and reliving the past. Great book. One of my favourites

How sam vimes became sam vimes.

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Everything thing about how this man reads these books is wonderful. He brings Terry Pratchetts Watch series alive. Thankyou Mr Culshaw, thankyou very much.

Brilliant reading by John Culshaw

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A really solid Discworld adventure. The suspense hardly lets up, and the satisfying back stories are very enjoyable. If you like Vimes you will really enjoy this story. Mostly humans, not a lot of troll or dwarfs or other sentient creatures but a decent dollop of magic and time travel to keep things interesting!

Full of action and suspense

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