I'll probably listen to it again, because I like to get my money's worth. That's inexcusable license, and not something Terry would ever have said.If you just pretend it 's a totally different story, unrelated to Pratchett, it's enjoyable.

It ends with the Patrician saying, 'if there is a god, it is surely our duty to be his moral superior.' But in this bastardization, the butchers have left out that line, and turned the meaning around so that Vetinari is urging his listeners to be just as ruthless as the otter. In Pratchett's story, this is a major statement of the author's philosophy. Like they just stripped down the damn book for parts.The worst part, for me, is Vetinari's story about the otter eating the salmon.

It's like they took the names, dialog, and events of Pratchett's book, and rearranged them, and slapped them over different characters, for no apparent reason.

I'm extremely familiar with the book, and the audio book. Starring Tom Alexander, Samantha Béart, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Mark Benton, Stephen Briggs, Stephen Critchlow, Jon Culshaw, Phil Davis, Ray Fearon, Tony Gardner, Edward Harrison, David Holt, Mathew Horne, David Jason, Josie Lawrence, Toby Longworth, Harry Myers, Maggie Service, Andrew Spooner, Steven Webb, Keith Wickham and Jaime Winstone. This Audible Original multicast dramatisation is directed by the multiaward-winning Dirk Maggs, best known for his adaptations of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere for the BBC. Because the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too).Īs the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them.

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