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Guards! Guards!
- Discworld, Book 8
- Narrated by: Tony Robinson
- Series: Discworld: Ankh-Morpork City Watch (abridged), Book 1, Discworld (abridged), Book 8
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
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Summary
The City Watch is the last line of defence against such unnatural goings-on. But when even the Watch have trouble telling right from wrong, you know that law and order ain't what they used to be. But that's all about to change.
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- MICHAEL J BAXTER
- 19-11-18
Classic
Love it. I read the physical book many times over the years, so there were a couple of bits missing, but such is the way when books are converted to audio or video. Tony Robinson is always my goto narrator for discworld, highly recommended as a great start to discworld.
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- Mrs. Karen Proctor
- 18-04-15
Guards! Guards!
Wish I'd bought the unabridged version. Narration was very good but I didn't feel the story flowed well and I feel a bit cheated by the price.
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- Tim Seabrook.
- 06-07-20
goodcstorynlrtvdown by narrator
Men stcsrms is sn excellent book however nigel planer'screading is flat and 2 dikensional Tony Robinson is a much bettercreader with thecwaybhecaddsclife to each characters voice he makes stories come slivevinba 3,dimensional manner! however I couldn't getvthe tony robinson version yobolaybonnmy iphone7 sonit's someehst snnoying as nigel planer is notvas good as tony robindon!
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- K. Mcchesney
- 08-02-19
love it.
not my favorite Terry Pratchett but an entertaining story none the less. a great introduction Sam s relationships
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- Keven
- 17-05-18
Great book
I have been meaning to read Guards Guards for ages and I wasn't disappointed :-)
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- Michael A
- 31-03-18
Humourous
To is always to put an smile on your face whichever of his books you read. Brilliant.
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- Dan
- 16-10-16
Amazing. thank you Mr Robinson
loved this book when I read it. loved it even more now. I thank Tony Robinson for lending his voice to this book with tears in my eyes knowing that he and Pratchett were close friends.
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- Z. Gott
- 20-12-14
great story, great voices
love it, I listen to it over and over again, thank you very much :-D
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Steve Wilkinson
- 03-05-10
Disappointing
Lets be clear from the start, I am a fan of the Discworld series and have read all of them at least once; most I've read countless times. I get the audio books so I can listen to them in the car to work (each way is conveniently one CD long).
This abridged version leaves a lot to be desired. Tony Robinson's delivery is poor, and the editing of the story seriously detract from the original. Having read (and love) the book I spent the entire time listening to this thinking 'hang on a mo what about.....'
If this were given to me as an introduction to the series I doubt it would have gone any further.
Personally I would stick with the unabridged versions which are far closer to the originals - Nigel Planer's recounting is good, Steven Brigg's is superb (seems to be the only person who has read the books - he knows that Carrot has a Welsh accent!)
1 person found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Kashif
- 09-01-10
Great!
Loved it in all it's ridicularity!
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- Diego Floor
- 01-03-20
Inadequate performance
(I thought I had reviewed this already) The pacing is all over the place. Sometimes it's too slow, so I speed up, then it slows down and I have to reduce the speed again. Then he starts to whisper and I can't hear anything. This may be good acting in other contexts but for an audiobook it's just annoying. But by far the worst offence is that he butchers the humor of the book!
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