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Thud!

(Discworld Novel 34)

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Thud!

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.

'Beating people up in little rooms . . . he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say 'we;re the good guys' and do bad-guy things.'

Koom Valley, the ancient battle where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls, was a long time ago.

But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.

With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him.

Oh . . . and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read 'Where's My Cow?', with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy.

There are some things you have to do.

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Thud! is the seventh book in the City Watch series.

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Critic Reviews

Imaginative, witty and consistent - as in consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turnss - Thud! is everything that the 30th novel in a fantasy sequence ought to be, and more.
Pratchett too requires us to think. Whenever I read his stories I find myself thinking that he is "grown up". He may write benign comedy but he knows how horribly complicated and exciting the Universe is.
You hardly need to review Pratchett nowadays...you know you can rely on him to be wirtty and quietly wise, and his creations have taken on a life of their own...A series that seems to re-invent itself by natural evolution every time.
'Thud! has a serious theme: racial intolerance. That Pratchett can explore this while still making us laugh is a tribute to the integrity of his created world ... Extremely funnym but it's also very near the knuckleduster.'
All stars
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Narration continues to improve as series goes on. The book remains as good as it has allways been.

Amazing Book

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Nothing to say about the story, it's Pratchett and typically amazing.

Jon Culshaw's performance is great, but Bill Nighy sounds like he just woke up and couldn't care less. The sound effect played before and after Nighy reads the footnotes is more than a bit jarring and ruins the flow of an otherwise spectacular audiobook. The audio quality of the older books was easy to get over after a bit, but that sound effect just can't be ignored.
Nighy's performance and that sound effect are the only thing keeping this from being a 5 star.

Wake Up Bill and fire the sound fx guy

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I have always enjoyed Terry Pratchett’s City Watch series having read them each several times and listening to audio collections. However this audio narrated by Jon Culshaw ( with others) is excellent . I have deleted earlier audios with different narrator in favour of this narrator. His interpretation of Vimes in particular is colourful and sounds like “ a real copper” Look forward to listening to this again.

Fantastic narrator

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As per title loved it wish I could listen for the first time again and now I'm writing for the fifteen word minimum

Story and narration incredible

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