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Pyramids

Discworld, Book 7

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Pyramids

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Alfred Enoch, Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz
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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 Pyramids is narrated by Alfred Enoch, known for playing Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter film series, and Wes Gibbins in How To Get Away With Murder. 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.

'"LOOK AFTER THE DEAD," SAID THE PRIESTS, "AND THE DEAD WOULD LOOK AFTER YOU."'

Young Prince Teppic is sent far away from his desert homeland to the city of Ankh-Morpork for the best education money can buy. Which just so happens to be at the Assassins' Guild.

But when Teppic's father dies suddenly, fate takes him away from assassination to something far more unsavoury: politics. Teppic returns home to the small, penniless kingdom of Djelibeybi to take his place as ruler.

It isn't easy, being a teenage pharaoh. As tradition dictates, the new king must build a monumental pyramid to honour his dead father. But this one might just bankrupt the kingdom, and warp the very fabric of time and space itself...

The Discworld novels can be listened to in any order but Pyramids is a standalone.

The first book in the Discworld series - The Colour of Magic - was published in 1983. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this.

'Pratchett remains a consistently clever, charming and funny voice' - Independent

©1989 Terry and Lyn Pratchett (P)2023 Penguin Audio Action & Adventure Epic Fantasy Fiction Humorous Literature & Fiction Royalty Satire Comedy Epic Fantasy Middle East Assassin Pharaoh

Critic Reviews

"The best kind of parody - funny and smart and still a good story." (Mail on Sunday)
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The narrator does a brilliant job. It sounds wierd when he starts because he’s in character throughout the book and does a great job bringing the characters to life. The only criticism being the footnotes and the shimmering audio is at a lower volume level and tends to break the pace at the most in opportune moments.

Excellent book

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This is my favourite Discworld book and it is brilliantly read by Dean from Harry Potter (lol), he does amazing voice work and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this audiobook.
However, I can only give it four stars overall because the editor is some kind of idiot and didn't listen back to what they'd done because every time a new chapter starts or it returns to the narrator, the first second of the first word is cut off and it's extremely annoying as it breaks your reverie every time, and that's saying something considering the vast amount of chapters and interruptions from a clearly bored Bill Nighy (who's recording quality is sub-par and far too quiet), could have done with the option to opt-out of the footnotes.
I love that they are churning these books out as fast as I can listen, but I'm sure most listeners would appreciate it if the editors took an extra 2 minutes to make sure that the quality of recording and volume matches, and that they haven't cut off the narrator. You know, the bare minimum for an audiobook.
tl:dr - brilliant performance and story, embarrassingly bad editing, like, whoever okayed this to be published as it is should be shot and then fired.

What is wrong with the editor of these recordings?

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Very enjoyable story, with lots of humour and a dash of adventure. The performances are excellent, both engaging and easy to understand.

Charming

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Another awesome story from Sir Terry. Highly enjoyable!
The narrator did a fantastic job with this book too.

Great audiobook

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It starts in the Assassins Guild in Ankh-Morpork, but the action is in Djel, the Egypt of Discworld. It does you good to go somewhere where you’re both a king and a god.

Classic Pratchett adventure

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i get what they are going for with the sllloooowww narration on a certain character but it actually just makes it really difficult and aggravating to listen to. several hours of it makes me want to just skip the whole book

aggravating narration

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Loved it! Story is a little slow but as always this is made up for by Sir Terry's humor and descriptive master pieces

Another classic from Sir Terry Pratchett

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I have read all of the Disc World books 📚 and decided revisit The Pyramids as an audiobook.
I loved the performance of Terry Pratchett's the Pyramids by Alfred Enoch, Bill Nighy and Peter Serafinowicz. Terry Pratchett is one of my all time favourite authors, having written some of the best literature in a magical world. And well before the anyone in the world ever heard of the boy who lived.....
Pratchett was so original in his satire, and absolutely knew how to weave historical fact into fiction that helps makes sense of our world.
Totally recommend this one. And I'm off to find another Pratchett to listen to.

Amazing performance of Terry Pratchett's The Pyramids

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A story that I’ve always had to just kind of get through in my Discworld read. It’s good, but not one that springs to mind for your Top 5.
Alfred Enoch does an absolute BRILLIANT reading. The different voices given to each character just work, the humour absolutely sings, and I just had a magic day listening. I wish he’d been chosen for more of the stories.

Alfie brings life to this

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love Terry Pratchett stories, this one has real promise. But the recording let's it down, the speed changes and it replays parts, almost like a scratch on a DVD. It just gets stuck and jumbled making finishing the book incredibly hard. Needs fixing

major technical errors

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