Pyramids

Name: Pyramids
Rating: 4.08 (95718 reviews)
Author: Terry Pratchett

Discworld • Book 7

by Terry Pratchett

Narrated by Alfred Enoch, Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz

4.08 ABR Score (95.7K ratings)

★ 3.93 Goodreads (95.4K) ★ 4.6 Audible (358)

9h 53m Released 2023 Fantasy

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Bill Nighy and Peter Serafinowicz performing Pratchett is either the most British thing imaginable or proof that some books simply find their perfect cast.

Great if you want: standalone Discworld with Egyptian mythology and dry philosophy
Listening experience: brisk and witty — comic set-pieces hit harder out loud
Narration: full cast with Nighy and Serafinowicz makes the absurdist tone land perfectly
Skip if: you prefer Pratchett's ensemble casts over a solo protagonist story

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About This Audiobook

Teppic has trained with the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork, which turns out to be poor preparation for inheriting the throne of Djelibeybi, an ancient desert kingdom where the gods are unusually active and the pyramids have begun to cause structural problems with the local geometry of time and space. Terry Pratchett's seventh Discworld novel uses its Ancient Egypt analogue to examine religion, tradition, and the relationship between narrative and reality with the density of wit that defines his best work.

The BBC full-cast production brings an exceptional ensemble to Pratchett's world, with Alfred Enoch, Bill Nighy, and Peter Serafinowicz among those giving voice to the satirical ensemble. The theatrical presentation suits Discworld's theatrical sensibility, and at under ten hours Pyramids moves with the efficiency of a Pratchett novel, where no scene is longer than it needs to be and every scene contains more ideas than most books manage in their entirety.