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Guards! Guards!
- Discworld, Book 8
- Narrated by: Jon Culshaw, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy, Ben Aaronovitch
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
The audiobook of Guards! Guards! is narrated by impressionist and actor Jon Culshaw, best known for BBC Radio 4’s Dead Ringers, and for the Doctor Who audiobooks and dramas. 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.
'NOBLE DRAGONS DON'T HAVE FRIENDS. THE NEAREST THEY CAN GET TO THE IDEA IS AN ENEMY WHO IS STILL ALIVE.'
The city of Ankh-Morpork is in turmoil, its citizens revolting. Again.
A shadowy secret brotherhood has summoned a dragon to spread terror throughout the city, intent on overthrowing the Patrician and ruling in his place. Too bad the dragon has ideas of its own...
It's up to Captain Sam Vimes and the ramshackle Night Watch to stop it. Only problem is, the Watch are more used to dealing with mobs than dragons.
And if they can't bring down this fire-breathing tyrant and reinstate their own, slightly less dangerous one, Ankh-Morpork might be lost. For ever...
With an afterword by Ben Aaronovitch.
Guards! Guards! is the first book in the City Watch 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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"This is one of Pratchett's best books. Hilarious and highly recommended." (The Times)
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- Anonymous User
- 11-08-23
fantastic story
love it, it was my first Terry P. book and its made quite the impression
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- Spencer
- 19-06-23
Culshaw deserves a gong for the narration
Superb voice acting. Each character distinct and for me fitting perfectly with each character. ..and Nobby sounding older than I had imagined is perfect in reality.
I rarely review but felt the need to do so here
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- Lisa J C
- 22-06-23
Perfect
Was nervous of what this narrator would be like, I don't like the previous recordings so these needed to good or I'm back to print only. Need not have worried, Jon Culshaw is excellent, a little slow perhaps so I have it at 1.2 speed. His character voices are easily told apart and very well done. Really pleased with it. . On to Men At Arms now.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-02-24
Character voices
Jon Culshaw made this already great story come to life. Every character brought to life even sub characters.
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- Mr. C. J. Wilson
- 26-05-23
Fantastic New Recordings
At last we get to hear Sean Bean playing the part he was born for, Sam Vimes! thank you John Culshaw for giving us this.
And thank you penguin for the new recordings. Having Nighy and Serafinovicz for the footnotes and Death is inspired and adds real texture to the recording. I always found it frustrating heading another actor reading Death particularly as if was always them doing a deep throat impression where as Serafinovicz just has such a rich voice. Perhaps James Earl Jones can do the American version!
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- Mr A J Smith
- 18-06-23
Excellent fun.
Fantastic story, very funny and an excellent performance. would highly recommend to anyone of any age!
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- pimpmylegs.com
- 20-09-23
Beautiful
I have two of the Watch audible books read by Stephen Briggs and very much enjoy those, I have enjoyed Jon Culshaw’s reading equally for different reasons. It took a moment to adjust to the new voices but I’ve really enjoyed them, particularly Nobby Nobbs 😁
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- Nesta Oliver
- 15-06-23
Excellent reading
I loved the narration. You can tell who is speaking without the text telling us because of the narrator’s voice variation. Spoiler alert:
Only two provisos, but these are personal opinion only: I will always now picture Vimes as Sean Bean in Sharpe, the voice was an exact replica. But Vimes was born and bred in Ankh-Morpork, so why is his accent different to the others also born and bred there and all pretty much of the same social class? It works in this narration though. And I was not keen on Nobby’s voice, but only because I had imagined it very differently. As I said: opinion only.
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- David Peacock
- 22-06-23
Great listen
This is a great version of reading this story. I enjoy the unabridged and abridged versions by Nigel planer and Tony Robinson. Jon Culshaw reads really well. Somehow he makes it sound in a lot of places that the story is being read by Les Dawson. So great reading with some big nostalgia vibes from the narrator!!!
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- Alan
- 11-12-23
Wonderful to restart Discworld with my old mate Sam
I did like having read the story before hearing it. Some punchlines are better when you know they are coming. Great ensemble who nearly have as great as respect for the language, wisdom, and humour as I do
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