Listening to Discworld Novels

[Tonyblack]

OK folks.

What would you recommend to me as my first toe-dip into DW audio?

I'm a virgin, you see.

Go for something like Guards! Guards!

My first was Thud! Which Harper Collins had given to Sharlene when she had the book store and she passed onto me.

I also heard Feet of Clay, as I found the unabridged version on cassette tapes in a charity shop for £1. I have also borrowed Wintersmith and Lords and Ladies (the latter read by Nigel Planer) from the library.

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Something bizzare happened to the CDs when I played them on my computer and they got turned into MP3 files . . .

[raisindot]

OK folks.

What would you recommend to me as my first toe-dip into DW audio?

I'm a virgin, you see.

You probably should start with the book or books you like the most, I would think. Since The Fifth Elephant is my favorite book, I started with that one and then went on to get everything else ready by Stephen Briggs, and the selected a few other favorites read by Nigel Planer. The only reader I can't stand is Celia whatsername, who reads "Wyrd Sisters." She's just awful.

I also heard Feet of Clay, as I found the unabridged version on cassette tapes in a charity shop for £1. I have also borrowed Wintersmith and Lords and Ladies (the latter read by Nigel Planer) from the library.

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Something bizzare happened to the CDs when I played them on my computer and they got turned into MP3 files . . .

What a coincidence! I can't tell you how many times that's happened with me as well !

[Bouncy Castle]

I can't seem to find any of the unabridged versions.

[Bouncy Castle]

Looking at Eoin Colfer audio books on Amazon.

Why are they all so bluddy expensive?

Audio books in general, I mean.

[Tonyblack]

Because there are a lot of discs involved.

[Bouncy Castle]

Ahhhh.

Mind you, an audio disc is about 50p, so hmmmmm..............

[Tiffany]

They obviously have to pay the people who read the books a vast amount of money to do it. It must take them a long time.

I have several audio books, CD's, unabridged versions by Anne McCaffrey bought at a reasonable price, but I guess TP is more popular so his are more expensive.

[Bouncy Castle]

True.

Perhaps I'm turning into a Tight Git?

[Tiffany]

True.

Perhaps I'm turning into a Tight Git?

I don't think you are, because no way would I spend the money they ask for Terry's audio books either.

PS If you want Equal Rites with Tony Robinson, abridged, I have a spare, unopened, I didn't know I already had it. It's yours for what I paid. £5 plus post.

[Bouncy Castle]

Oooooh.

[Sister Jennifer]

Finally got my arse into gear and went to our local Library and borrowed Carpe Jugulum, read by Nigel Planer. I'm really enjoying listening to it.

[raisindot]

Yeah, I think CJ is one of Planer's best reads. He does do the vampires' voices in a way that sounds refreshingly different than the Bela Lugosi style Briggs tends to use with this vampires. He still does the witches much better than Briggs, and the exchanges he voices between Granny and Mightily Oaks are among his best.

[The Mad Collector]

I've got all the unabridged audio books and I have to say that I really enjoyed Michael Fenton Stevens reading The Long Earth. Lots of great characterisations and much as I love Stephen Briggs it is mercifully free of those errors he has a habit of doing where he will read a line in the wrong characters voice.

If you are buying the CDs always get them direct from Isis Audiobooks they are much cheaper than Amazon etc,