Thief of Time: Discworld, Book 26

The original recording of this story used an ensemble cast that had as much feel for the material as a centipede does for a bicycle. I'm annoyed that I had to purchase this audiobook twice, but I'm glad that I finally got a good reading of an excellent story. If, like me, you purchased the original recording, buy this. You'll be glad you did.

First off, I should admit that I've read Thief of Time before which is what prompted me to buy the audiobook so I could listen to it on drives. As such I have no problem following the plot but it can be a little complicated for people who don't have previous experience with Pratchett's work, I tried to get a friend to listen and he couldn't really follow the story. Since I've read if before I thought it was great, the narrator has the perfect voice (British obviously) for the work and has a good since of comedic timing. Loved it!

I have heard Stephen Briggs read 14 of Pratchett's books and I liked Thief of Time best. His talent for humor is on full display as he portrays the abbot of a monastery who is a 900 year old monk in a less than 2 year old infant's body. Both ages alternately are heard from the infant with memorable results.
The monks seem to be created from David Caradine's old Kung Fu TV series and all his Egors seem to be a recreation of Marty Feldman's role in Young Frankenstein. Highly recommended for fans of Pratchett and Briggs.

This comes right before the incredible and brilliant Night Watch - and it makes an interesting background history for that.
Susan, granddaughter of Death, has a big role in this story and is lots of fun for fans of her character - though the monks of time actually play the largest part.
The plots bears well under a second reading, in fact, it actually improves with it-

The Timing and nuanced reading by the narrator brings this book to life. Terry Pratchett is the king of clever, witty, and realistic in a very unrealistic setting.

the fast pace and the interwoven story lines (and the funny interplay between the characters)

Lutz-say (the sweeper) think- little bald Buddha with an attitude

Great story. I felt like I was in the worlds most entertaining temporal mechanics class (with out the headache of trying to pretend that I knew what the bleep anyone was talking about!) I would recommend this book to anyone!!! (whether you've read a discworld book or not)

This was an entertaining book that was well read by the speaker. He has a wide range of accents, making is easy to keep track of characters.

I was constantly laughing. He skewers everything with comedic honesty. I much prefer to hear his books read out loud.

One of the top listening experiences I've enjoyed

Almost any other book in the Discworld series although this does some great character expanding with top-notch humor

The auditors - all of them

It is written that there is no time to see Thief of Time like the present.

I started my Discworld journey with Going Postal and none of the other four I've listened to since have been nearly as enjoyable. This was easily my least favorite. The story line was preposterous even by Discworld standards, but the killer was the accent of Lu-Tze. It invoked the worst of the racist Charlie Chan movies, and made this book nearly unlistenable. I think both narrator and author are culpable here, because the speech of The Sweeper is in pidgin English, and pronounced in an awful accent by Stephen Briggs. I'm hoping my next (yes, I'll keep trying because Postal was so amazing) Discworld is better.