Marcel (MadJo)

The story is awesome as always but narration isn't great

Revisado: 08-23-23

Normally I can blaze through the Discworld audiobooks (the old ones), this one is read so slowly that it actually slows me to a crawl to the point of not listening anymore. And that's a shame. I'm sure Jon Culshaw did his best, but this isn't his greatest work.

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One of the best discworld novels

Revisado: 05-31-21

One of the best discworld novels and Stephen Briggs' narration brings it to life for me.

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Audio quality is bad

Revisado: 06-12-20

This is one of the weaker audio transfers from analog to digital. During 'book II' the playback speed changes making Nigel Planer sound like he's drunk.

The story of Ptepic is great, and it's an enjoyable enough listen, but perhaps the audio transfer could be redone?

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Not my cup of tea

Revisado: 01-13-19

I can't finish this. I have too many problems with the story. It has nothing to do with Richard Poe's performance as narrator, but the story itself is too stupid to live.

And Langdon is very much a Marty Stu.

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Made me angry

Revisado: 07-08-18

This audio dramatization lacks everything that makes the book witty.

The person who made the adaptation took a lot of freedom with the characters to the point that they are no longer recognizable.

Trevor spewing beer over Mister Nutt? (where was that in the original book?).

Old man Stollop calling his daughter a "bitch" and calling Glenda "blobby", what the everloving shit?! Never once would Sir Terry have resorted to such a low level insult for one of his characters. It's also the point where I gave up on this nonsense.

I don't know what this is an adaptation of, but it ain't Discworld.

On the plus side, the actors do a tremendous job with a very mediocre script. And David Jason as narrator works for me. Though at times the background music isn't exactly in the background.

If you're a fan of Discworld, get the actual (audio)book of Unseen Academicals. Which is a fun take on Romeo and Juliet wrapped in a football story, where you learn that it is possible to get out of the crab bucket and that where you grew up, doesn't have to define who you are, no matter if you grew up in Dimwell, Dolly Sisters or Uberwald chained to an anvil.
But stay away from this audio drama.

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The author of this book should eat a bag of d*cks

Revisado: 05-09-18

I don't know what that sentence means, but I don't give a fuck. A bag of d*cks sounds awful, so I'm going with that.

This so-called self-help book is vulgar for vulgarity's sake. It adds nothing to its message other than the shock value.

But I'm sure Mark Manson doesn't give a f*ck.

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Badly cut up into chapters and monotonic narration

Revisado: 04-16-18

I liked the book, but it was a tough one to get through. Mostly because the narration was rather a bit monotonic and the book was cut up into 9 audible chapters.
Going back to the start of the 'book chapter' was nearly impossible. Making it sometimes hard to pick up the book after putting it down for the night.

But the story was fascinating enough to put up with that.

Though the epilogue felt rushed.

The narrator also didn't differentiate between the emails that the protagonist writes. Sometimes the story was told through various emails in a row, and the narrator Shelly Frasier didn't delineate them in any way.

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Non-communicative bastard takes on vampires

Revisado: 11-09-16

This book is too stupid to live. The only redeeming factor is Marsters narration, but I still couldn't finish the story.
The main character Harry Dresden seems to believe that all women need his male chauvinist knight on a white horse-routine to save them from whatever peril there is in the world. But hides crucial information from people because he's afraid it might harm them, like a f-ing twat.

Almost every woman in the novel gets introduced with their cupsize neatly labeled.

At the 50% point of the book I loathed side character Michael and his holier-than-thou approach to life, and I started to really hate Harry Dresden. And at 70% I gave up, when he white-knighted himself again for a damsel in distress, when the odds were stacked lightyears high.

That's another thing I truly hate about this series. The main character gets brought so low, that it should be impossible to continue, but yet, Dresden finds that one tiny ounce of strength left to him to hurl himself at the enemy and win. What the F? The fight at the cemetary was so non-sensical and too-against-all-odds to stand up to any scrutiny.

And the next person to say Hells Bells to me will be fed to Harry's (inexplicable) fairy godmother, who suddenly exists.

If you read the series this far, and have had doubts about Dresden's character in the previous books. Stop now, and don't continue. It doesn't get better, despite what the fans say.

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An enjoyable detective noir story

Revisado: 10-12-16

When my secretary showed this novel into my office, I knew that it'd be trouble. It was short and sweet and it filled its pages nicely. It had a pleasant voice, provided by Eric Meyers.

It told me that it had a problem for me. I looked it up and down, licked my lips and told it to take a seat.

It sat down, and explained what the problem was. Apparently Sam Spade was tasked with finding a dingus, called Maltese Falcon - a statuette that could make him a very rich man indeed.
I let it speak, and before I knew it, its story was over.
It had surprised me with how modern its story was, considering that the novel was born in 1929.
I found the resolution is a bit odd though. The story didn't fully explain how Spade procured the device. But it had amused me, and I told it that it wasn't a perfect case, but I'd take it.

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Decent story, excellent production values

Revisado: 10-10-16

It took me a while to finish this 10th anniversary edition of the audiobook. Mostly because it was a bit confusing. There are a few chapters set in the 1700s, that I still can't fully place in the main narrative of the book.

This book is about stories that humans make that have an effect on god-like beings. It's a road trip book through America, but it also has a sort of murder mystery in it. The novel also talks about how America treats their 'gods' (both the old ones that immigrants took with them to the New World back in the day and new ones, such as Media and Technology).
It's about conmen, and their tricks. It's about a guy named Shadow, an ex-convict whose past is murky, whose live might affect the future of the world.

I liked parts of the novel, but not all and because of the disjointed nature of this book, that's perfectly fine. For instance, I liked the bits that happened in Small Town USA, I liked the roadtrip part of the book, I liked the story about the Piskies, but disliked the bit that happens 'at the tree', as I felt that ground the story to a halt. It was kind of necessary for the plot, but it didn't flow in my mind.

It's an interesting look to life in the USA from an immigrant's perspective.

The story gets 3 stars from me, it's a decent novel, and I can see why it won so many awards, but it's not going to be put on my 'read again anytime soon'-stack.

The full-cast audio production however is top-notch. Good voice casting for most of the characters. (Except for one of the interludes when a female character got a very male voice)

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