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Carpe Jugulum

Discworld, Book 23

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Carpe Jugulum

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Indira Varma, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy, Steven Cree
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Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before.

The audiobook of Carpe Jugulum is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). 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. Steven Cree (Outlander; A Discovery of Witches) voices the Nac Mac Feegles. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan.

"'Carpe Jugulum,' read Agnes aloud. 'That's . . . well, Carpe Diem is Seize the Day, so this means -'
'Go for the throat . . .'"

Vampires have come to Lancre, but they're not what you'd expect. Sure, they drink blood and view humans as dinner, but they're modern and sophisticated. They've got style and fancy waistcoats. And they're not a bit afraid of garlic.

The Magpyr family are out of the casket and want a bite of the future. But they haven't met the neighbours yet.

Between them and Lancre stand a coven of four - Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat and young Agnes - and they don't take kindly to murderous intruders . . .

'An enduring, endearing presence in comic literature' Guardian

'Incredibly funny . . . compulsively readable' The Times

Carpe Jugulum is the sixth book in the Witches series, but you can listen to the Discworld novels in any order.

The first book in the Discworld series - The Colour of Magic - was published in 1983. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this.

©1998 Terry and Lyn Pratchett (P)2022 Penguin Audio Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Humorous Fiction Comedy Magic Users Thought-Provoking Funny Witchcraft

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The narrator just gets better in these books. Her voices are absolutely perfect in my mind. I was very nervous about this because it's one of my favourites and previous narrators have ruined it, in my opinion. I needn't have worried, she's absolutely brilliant with it and the others in the Witches arc, and I can listen to them over and over. Bill Nighy sounds bored doing the footnotes.

Just perfect

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Great dramatisation, splendidly voiced. Really enjoyed it and would thoroughly recommend. Puts a smile on your face.

Superb

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Indira Varma reads these stories brilliantly, she renders the female protagonists so well and does pretty good with the males. She is subtle with her voice, without seeming to strain up or down in pitch as she switches character. This story though… it’s one of those where Pratchett (bless his memory) sometimes drops into a hole between humour and suspense/solemnity. At his best Pratchett is able to make fun of stuff like religious schisms by fictionalising them to the point where it is not a swipe at anyone personally,.. but too many of the jokes in this book (those poking fun at vampire nastiness) aren’t really funny enough and they are repetitive. I do like the ‘inner girl’ story about Agnes and Perdita, I guess this could be seen as a loving look at mental illness? Agnes is great and admirable, and as a fatty myself I find the treatment of her self image unusually sensitive and observant.

Varma is great, good listen, but not Pratchetts finest

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I really enjoyed how they brought every character to life with brilliant voice work and the story was amazing

The narration was awesome

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Terry Pratchett does it again. His witches get involved in another escapade. Unable to put down untill finished.

Terry Pratchett once again unputdownable

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Overall I have enjoying the witches new narration, Granny, Nanny, Magrat and Agnes are all spot on. But I have one thing spoiling my overall enjoyment; it's a shame that the trolls accent really doesn't fit.
Wherever they crop up (excuse the pun), the narrator makes it sound like Trolls have a brain full of sludge not rock. There's a difference between slow and stupid and unfortunately this falls into the wrong side and can be very jarring to listen to. Igor nearly falls into the same category of being overly exaggerated but just about gets away with it. Fingers crossed that it won't be used in the same style for the Guards series.
That said the rest of the characters are well done, and I've enjoyed rediscovering the audiobooks for my Pratchett fandom (I grew up with the Tony Robinson cassettes). Would recommend listening to one before going out and spending all your credits on the whole series though.

Overall great, shame about the trolls

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Indria Varma and supporting cast do an amazing job of bringing Terry Pratchett's fun story to life. Recommend!

Witchy Fun with Fantastic Narration

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Not at all sure I would like listening to another’s voicing of a discworld novel, having loved, and reread them so many times, with my own voicing of the characters. But I thorough enjoyed this after my initial uncertainty, and am looking forward to listening to more.

Hugely satisfying.

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Some of the other performances from these new releases seem a bit middling, but my god, Indira gave what is undoubtedly one of
my favourite audio book performances ever, and ensured I'll be binging all the Witches books as soon as I can!

Indira Varma knocked it out of the park

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These new recordings of the great man's Witches books have been magnificent.
Indira Varma reads with such perfect timing, such beautiful cadence, I will always think of her as Esme Weatherwax.
Bill Nighy reading the footnotes was like having Terry back. His tone was perfect.
Peter Serafinowicz is so perfect as Death, that is all I can say. perfect!
And in this book, Steven Cree introduces us to the Nac Mac Feegles wonderfully. The first time they spoke I felt such glee! Just amazing.
Listening has taken me back to how I felt on first reading these books. I have laughed out loud, cried. These much, much loved characters walked off the page again.
I can't thank Penguin enough for the love and care that went into these re-recordings.
Onto Small Gods now, so well selected after this introduction to Om, and then I shall await the Rincewind books, already pre-ordered.
The anticipation I have for the Watch and the Death books cannot be expressed, but there is no longer any worry that they won't be done right.

Magnificent!

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