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TBR Audiobook Review: The Truth, by Terry Pratchett

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Mathew Baynton, Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz
Series: Discworld: Industrial Revolution, Book 2, Discworld, Book 25
Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 23-02-23
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio

Summary

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The audiobook of The Truth is narrated by Mathew Baynton, star of Ghosts, Yonderland and Horrible Histories. 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.

‘A lie can run round the world before the truth can get its boots on.’

William de Worde has somehow found himself editor of Ankh-Morpork’s first newspaper. Well, with a name like that…

Launched into the world of investigative journalism, alongside reporter Sacharissa Cripslock, William soon learns that the news is a risky business. For a start, his colleagues include a band of axe-wielding dwarfs and a recovering vampire with a life-threatening passion for flash photography.

It’s a big news week: the most powerful man in the city has been arrested, leaving Ankh-Morpork without a leader. And a dangerous criminal organisation will do anything to control the story…

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Truth is a standalone.

The first book in the Discworld series—The Colour of Magic—was published in 1983. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this.

My Review

I’ve been listening to all of the new Penguin editions of the Discworld books and I’ve finally got around to reviewing one this year. I listened to The Truth over the last couple of days. I will probably be writing reviews over the next few weeks for all of the audiobooks I’ve listened to from the new Penguin editions. It may take some time.

I enjoyed this new edition of The Truth. I like the story anyway, but it was interesting to hear someone else’s interpretation of the characters. Mathew Baynton used slightly different emphasis on occasion which gave different interpretations to the sentences.

Mr Pin reminds me of the joking impressions of David Beckham – that squeaky voice and slightly ignorant tone. It definitely fits him as a character. I still don’t like the way these Penguin editions have characterised Drumknott, though. He’s been given a sibilant tone to his accent, like a snakes hiss. I think it’s a misinterpretation of the character.

Generally, I still prefer the Stephen Briggs editions, but this one is acceptable listening.

Review: The Magic of Terry Pratchett, by Marc Burrows

The Magic of Terry Pratchett

Published By: Pen & Sword – Imprint: White Owl
Price: £13.99
ISBN: 9781526765505
Published: 6th July 2020

The Magic Of Terry Pratchett is the first full biography of Sir Terry Pratchett ever written. Sir Terry was Britain’s best-selling living author*, and before his death in 2015 had sold more than 85 million copies of his books worldwide. Best known for the Discworld series, his work has been translated into 37 languages and performed as plays on every continent in the world, including Antarctica. Journalist, comedian and Pratchett fan Marc Burrows delves into the back story of one of UK’s most enduring and beloved authors; from his childhood in the Chiltern Hills, to his time as a journalist, and the journey that would take him – via more than sixty best-selling books – to an OBE, a knighthood and national treasure status. The Magic Of Terry Pratchett is the result of painstaking archival research alongside interviews with friends and contemporaries who knew the real man under the famous black hat, helping to piece together the full story of one of British literature’s most remarkable and beloved figures for the very first time.

*Now disqualified on both counts.

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Bonus Review #1: ‘Snuff’, by Sir Terry Pratchett GNU

8785374Published by: Doubleday UK

Publication Date: 13th October 2011

Format: Hardback

I.S.B.N.: 9780385619264

Price: £18.99 (And yes, I did pay that much, I used to get my Discworlds as soon as I could)

 

 

 

 

 

Blurb

According to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.

And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.

He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment.

They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.

But not quite all…

 

 

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