Interesting Times

Discworld, Book 17

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy

Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

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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Critic reviews

"Pratchett is a comic genius." (Daily Express)

"Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre." (Observer)

Morgan is great with character voices, except...

Colin Morgan has blown me away with his character voices. They all are truly well done, except for one. The voice for Mustrum Ridcully was so wrong. It was the most jarringly wrong voice I have listened to so far in all of these new audiobooks. It's not particularly bad, but anyone who knows and loves Ridcully will be disappointed. Come on Colin! Stephen Briggs did it right.
I am also starting to love Peter's voice for death.

A fine attempt, but not Stephen Briggs

I was excited when I heard audible was recording the old discworld books to improve on the poor recordings of the early books. And this is well produced and the reader talented. But I found the character voices pretty grating. I had to stop halfway through. Sort of wish they would have had Briggs re-record the early books,

excellent narration

Colin Morgan does an Awesome job with narration. The story itself is superb, of course...it's Terry Pratchett AND Discworld, so that's a given.

It kind of threw me off a little

Some of the voices started sounding the same when the Barbarian’s teacher and Rincewind, and the grand Vizier (?) all start talking together. There wasn’t enough differentiation between those voices. They all sounded like Rincewind. Other than that I really enjoy Colin Morgan’s voice.

Rincewind never fails to amuse

You can't go wrong with Discworld and this is no exception. the production quality is also excellent.

Great story and performance

Happy to be enjoying another Rincewind adventure. Great story telling and narration! On to the next!

Storytelling w/ Wit

Great storytelling with captivating humor and detail…detail upon detail, fun puns and satire. Relaxing to listen to the marvelous narration.

Colin Morgan Is Excellent!

This is my favourite Rincewind book, and Colin Morgan really did it justice. I shall talk about the voice acting as we all know that any Pratchett book is going to be fantastic. Bill Nighy, and Peter Serafinowicz, were great as normal in their relatively short roles in this book, but Colin really outdid himself! Every character, regardless of how many lines they have, had a distinct, recognisable voice, none of which were overly grating, and all of which were filled with personality. I am in awe of Colin's voice acting talent. I recommend this book, it's highly enjoyable.

Wonderful

The author brought this perfectly to life. Again, Terry Pratchett, Has a way of reaching the masses

oh, my gods

Rincewind is yanked out of peace and tedium, wich he likes, and thrown across the disc. Into dealing with Empirial intrigue, a polite revolutionary faction, and a handful of ancient Barbarians. Fate and Lady Luck's game is marvelous.