Maskerade

(Discworld Novel 18)

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Tony Robinson

'I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought. Now everwhere I go there's...'

Death, to be precise. And plenty of it. In unpleasant variations. This isn't real life. This isn't even cheesemongering. It's opera. Where the music matters and where an opera house is being terrorised by a man in evening dress with a white mask, lurking in the shadows, occasionally killing people, and most worryingly, sending little notes, writing maniacal laughter with five exclamation marks. Opera can do that to a man. In such circumstances, life has obviously reached that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do...

©1996 Terry and Lyn Pratchett; (P)1996 Corgi Audio

Critic reviews

'Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh'

'The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences' (A.S. Byatt)

'Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable'

'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy...Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own'

'Entertaining and gloriously funny'

Funny

just loved iy. THough it is hatd to understand Nanny Ogg', its funny and enjoyable book.

Boppie from San Diego said it best

Not much more to add. Get the Nigel Planer version. Read Boppie’s review. Yep, that’s it.

A mystery in a mask

An easy listen, and entertaining, but the severe volume changes were distracting and very annoying.

it's not over til....

Sir Terry Pratchett in one of his best books. no review will ever do this man justice. just buy this book and listen to it twice, it'll help you get the jokes :) No regerts

good narrator

first Tony Robinson discworld adventure and I was nervous after enjoying Nigel planer and Stephen Briggs. but happily he was just as good!