Give him a single-sentence joke, and he'll deliver seven laboured sentences with slow (S L O W) world-weary solemnity and not one glimmer of humour.
It absolutely wrings all of the colour out of Pratchett’s nimble language and wordplay and it destroys so much of the comedy. Worse, there's no flow to his narration: it's a lumbering, halting thing punctuated by continuous inappropriate midsentence pauses, as though he’s forever having to stop to find his place. He's ponderous and joyless, plodding through the text at such a dragging pace that he only begins to sound half-natural at 1.2x speed. I also think that the performance that he gives not only speaks to his being miscast, but also to extremely poor judgement on the part of the director. He's at his best reading dialogue-heavy scenes like the bickering meetings of the Elucidated Brethren. Now, in fairness to him, it's obvious that he's a talented voice actor: he does a great job of giving life to the characters of Ankh-Morpork and I actually like a lot of the choices he's made there. Unfortunately, Jon Culshaw’s narration is so dreadful, it’s almost unlistenable. I’ve been hugely enjoying rediscovering Discworld through the new Penguin audio productions and some of the narrators have been truly spectacular (Indira Varma’s Witches, Richard Coyle’s Moist von Lipwig, Mathew Baynton’s The Truth), so I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of the City Watch audiobooks. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this. The first book in the Discworld series - The Colour of Magic - was published in 1983. Guards! Guards! is the first book in the City Watch series, but you can listen to the Discworld novels in any order. Only problem is, the Watch are more used to dealing with mobs than dragons.Īnd if they can't bring down this fire-breathing tyrant and reinstate their own, slightly less dangerous one, Ankh-Morpork might be lost. It's up to Captain Sam Vimes and the ramshackle Night Watch to stop it. Again.Ī shadowy secret brotherhood has summoned a dragon to spread terror throughout the city, intent on overthrowing the Patrician and ruling in his place. The city of Ankh-Morpork is in turmoil, its citizens revolting. THE NEAREST THEY CAN GET TO THE IDEA IS AN ENEMY WHO IS STILL ALIVE.' Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan.
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.
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.
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