Feet of Clay: Discworld, Book 19

Another great story of the discworld. I've read them all, and am working through the audio books during long journeys. Love Pratchett's work, unfortunately this is my least favourite narrator. Not a fan of the voices he assigns to characters - especially the trolls.



The Guards stories are my preference and this is a great one. Would recommend the story but the quality of this was not great. Volume occasionally changes as if sitting closer to the microphone, and sometimes with more or less background 'hiss/hum'.

One of the first Audible books I have bought, well read and great for a long drive, the audio quality is much better than I was expecting

I love pretty much all of the Terry Pratchett books and this is one of my favourites. I used o listen to a load of audiobooks from my local library but the stopped doing them so when i found this i was super excited.

The book itself is fantastic, its kind of a murder/mystery in a similar fashion to the other books in the City Watch set and like all discworld books it has a great sense of humor. I would definately recomend this audiobook to anybody that would listen

The narration has really got to a stage here where the more you listen to Planers interpretations the more you realise that its just not right.

However the worse thing about this book is the editing. At one part of the book Planer breaks character and rereads a section as he was not happy with it. This was not picked up on in editing and as a result you get Planer telling the reader he will read that section again.

If like me you love dicworld chances are that you will download this anyway, but please be prepared for a book you will probably think is the worst read in the series, which is a real shame when you consider just how good a book it actually is.

I absolutely LOVED this book, so much so, I took my time with it as i didn't want it to end. Nigel Planer's narration was, as per usual superb. I love his characters voices and find the timbre of his reading voice to be very familiar and comforting. Tony Robinson is good narrating Pratchett books too, but I find Stephen Briggs too harsh. Feet of Clay has 'The Watch' trying to solve a murder mystery that rivals Agatha Christie! With Golums, vampires, werewolves, trolls, dwarves and of course the odd human to boot! A great bed time story!

No, no - not quite right. There's a fine line between giving characters, well, character - and hamming it up more than Miss Piggy at the panto. Stephen Briggs gets this right, and I commend those Pratchett novels he has narrated to your attention: distinct enough to be interesting, normal enough not to be annoying. This doesn't.

Whilst the sample of this one was promising, in the end Mr Planer fairly pole-vaults that fine line after about half an hour of listening. Cloying, oily, self-satisfied: inadvertent, no doubt, but that is the sense of the narrator that comes across. I suspect it is because of how good an actor he actually is; but great imitation and variety is not really (when you think about it) what a listener seeks in a narrator. The world's greatest mimic would be a tiresome tale teller. Distinctions between characters in literary art are mostly a matter of rhythm and vocabulary, not accent. I felt the pace and character of Pratchett being wrestled rather artlessly away into a showcase for Planer's ability to gurgle, hiss and ooze about the place.

I could have done without the Ulster Sergeant Colon, too.