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
Brought to you by Penguin.
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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"Pratchett is a comic genius." (Daily Express)
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- TooT
- 08-12-2022
fabulous narration
I was thrilled by the narration of this. love this chap's voice work. champion.
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- Marta Jones
- 22-08-2023
Colin Morgan is Rincewind
Brilliant narration! Rincewind is my favourite anti-anti hero. Loved the book, Listening to it adds another dimension…
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- Stephen Grocott
- 26-02-2023
Classic and wonderful Pratchett
Hilariously provocative. Embellishing on the “wonderful” Rincewind and uniting him with TwoFlower. The explanation of the history of TwoFlower was great. The narration was good though not great. I prefer some of the previous narrators in this series.
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- Jodie
- 07-03-2023
Love it
It always makes me smile. I have read the book years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Listening to, it has been a great choice as well. I can’t wait until I start listening to the next one.
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- Civilization, what the best
- 12-04-2024
Good link back to previous stories
A good continuation of the disc world series, Rincewind stories are some of those I think are best written.
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- Winter
- 22-07-2022
Excellent Story Brilliant Narration
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 😄
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- Kindle Customer
- 19-01-2024
A hilarious story brought to life
I loved all of it! I highly recommend listening to this exciting and wild story. The characters are well developed and performed.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-09-2023
hard to listen to
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.
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- Sarah
- 12-12-2024
Terrible narrator, Ruins the Wizards of UU
I had hoped Colin might improve in time, however he clearly has a very limited range, a number of his wizards(and some of his barbarians) have the exact same voice which leads to allot of confusion in the story telling process.
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.
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- Charni
- 16-01-2023
Bad voice acting
Really did not like the voice acting. Could not even make it through the first half
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