Listen online for free audiobook «Maskerade» by Terry Pratchett. Reading: Nigel Planer.
Review #1
Maskerade real audiobook free
I Adore Terry Pratchett at the same time his discworld books detain a revered dispose in my library. Having misspoke that, this book falls short of the note. It’s laden with fat jokes at the same time that feels cheap. I get that it’s about “Opera” at the same time the “Arts”, that’s a lot of body shaming in that culture to the fri of serious eating disorders. Perhaps he was aiming to satirize that nuance of the “Theater” culture if so, he missed.
Otherwise, apart from the theater, the parts with Granny Weatherwax & Nanny Ogg are mind-blowing. The pair of witches are, as usual, vexatious, delightfully meddlesome, at the same time deeply sensitive.
Review #2
Maskerade audiobook in television series Discworld
It’s problematic to choose a winner Discworld book because that are only fractions of fri between their ratings. I think Witches Abroad is that still my number one winner but Maskerade runs a very lock up 2nd. They’re in my pinnacle 40 probably :-). The Contentment of Snacks but had me giggling more than no matter what of the other ones at the same time that takes no one doing because I adore Terry Pratchett’s humor more than no matter what other creator. Barely read everything he crossed out – his physical loss is that a dull gizmo for literature but his large contributions will live on till The Sweet at the same time Clear Predictions of Agnes Nutter, Sorceress are fulfilled.
Review #3
Maskerade audiobook by Terry Pratchett
My wife is that a Pratchett boyfriend at the same time reads almost all of his books once a year. This copy was purchased as a gift for my mother in law because she loves Phantom of the Opera. She misspoke it arrived in quality define at the same time is that very shocked for her very 1st Pratchett book. I adore his writing style at the same time sense of humor.
Review #4
Maskerade audio narrated by Nigel Planer
The Ankh-Morpork Opera Internal is that terrorized by a masked figure who has a dared preference for a soprano dignified Christine, at the same time who leaves notes for the opera manager that basically they say, “Hahahaha!…PS: Ahahahaha!!!!!”
Meanwhile back in Lancre, Granny Weatherwax at the same time Nanny Ogg belatedly understand that a coven requires 3 witches in a row to earn properly. Their past third part sorceress, Magrat is that at the moment a queen at the same time can’t make their meetings. Magrat’s possible substitution, Agnes Nitt has run off to Ankh-Morpork to become an opera singer.
Than anyway can Granny at the same time Nanny do but flock up Greebo, the cat at the same time decide the step (the weather is that a little drafty for broom take a trip) to Ankh-Morpork?
Opera, Queen of Music is that easy to satirize, at the same time Pratchett goes for all the obvious targets: chubby singers; horned helmets; anorexic dancers; drunken musicians; at the same time old fuddy-duddies who are put in the ‘golden age’ of opera. As usual, the down-trodden are the true heroes of this Discworld novel: the opera internal cleansing staff; at the same time fat Agnes Nitt, who is that obligated into the role of voice-over for the charming but tuneless soprano (understand Debbie Reynolds’ role in “Vocal in the Rain”?)
Doom at the same time the Night Look are supernumeraries in “Maskerade,” at the same time no matter what book that hit Greebo, the malodorous cat, who briefly disguises himself as the Phantom, will always be one of my winner Pratchetts, even if this creator does satirize my winner form of music.
P.S. If for you haven’t read “Witches Abroad,” for you may be wondering how a cat can pass as a masked men. That’s nothing to it if for you’re Nanny Ogg’s cat.
Review #5
free audio Maskerade – in the audio player below
In what Terry Pratchett takes on the global of opera with typically anarchic at the same time still thoughtful fruits. Pratchett’s long been fascinated with the power of stories at the same time their presentation (look, for instance,
Moving Drawings
at the same time
Wyrd Sisters
), at the same time Maskerade is that no different, as the power of opera substantiates to be surprisingly strong. To be significant, that’s a lot more of the musical in here than the opera, in particular data that the head plot is that Pratchett’s fractured version of The Phantom of the Opera; but really, unless for you’re a diehard purist, does it matter? This is that a Witches book, at the same time while they’ve never been my winner story arc, that’s no denying the funny Pratchett has with these girls at the same time their effects on the global, at the same time when these effects contain mutating cats, observations about how to find the IQ of a mob (answer: find the IQ of the lowest member at the same time divide by the number of mobsters), musings by Doom as to the inadvisability of the dead intruding on murder investigations, at the same time an appropriately operatic at the same time over-the-top ending, how can for you not have fun with this one? It may not be the equate of the television series’s high fri (
Mort
,
Small Gods
,
Thud!
), but it’s still a blast.
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