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Unseen Academicals

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Stephen Briggs
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Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old-fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go glowing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else.

The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr. Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr. Nutt, not even Mr. Nutt, which worries him, too.)

As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever. Because the thing about footballï¿¿ï¿¿ï¿¿the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!

©2009 Terry and Lyn Pratchett (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic reviews

"At its heart, this is an intelligent, cheeky love letter to football, its fans and the unifying power of sports." ( Publishers Weekly)
"In short, this is as busy and as daft as any other Discworld yarn, which means it is the quintessence of daft. Nobody writes fantasy funnier than Pratchett." ( Booklist)

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Discworld never disappoints.

Tery Pratchett is always a good time and Stephen Briggs brings it to life wonderfully.

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Life, Love, Friendship, Sports and Prejudices

This Discworld novel is hilarious and insightful! A great read for those new to Discworld!

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Favorite selection

I have listened to this story five times at least. I am always amazed at the adroit way the author highlights the best and worst of human society w/o beating us over the head with it. One of my go to audiobooks

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Soccer, in a whole new light!

Another great work by Terry, expertly voiced by Stephen

Although this is my 3rd listen I still enjoy.

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Wonderful as usual.

I just love the disc world books. They are light, funny, and take you away from your troubles.

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Great as always

Stephen Briggs is the classic Terry Pratchett Narrator. His voice is as comforting to me as the books are.

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One of my top favorites

This is one of my top favorite Pratchett novels. It is up there with Going Postal. The performance is excellent.

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I want to be a prof. of post-mortem communications

it was 2 really good stories, but they didn't intersect as well as I'd hoped. as a college faculty member I found the wizards of unseen university hilarious.

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A great story

Good job all around, but I think the narrator reused too many accents where they didn't belong

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I love them all!

Loved it! I love the narrator, the story, and the author. Terry Pratchett was one of a kind.

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