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Equal Rites
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Celia Imrie
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,791
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,882
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,887
Right before the wise old wizard Drum Billet died, he passed on his magical staff of power to the newborn eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately, Drum Billet never bothered to check the gender of the newborn baby, and it turns out to be a girl. Now his chauvinistic colleagues are forced to deal with a young girl who has all the qualifications to join their all-male profession. Terry Pratchett's third Discworld novel, Equal Rites, asks many provocative questions about magic, where it goes, where it comes from, and why.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narration is Unintelligible
- By Kate on 11-15-11
- Equal Rites
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Celia Imrie
The best of Sir Terry Pratchett’s stories, read exactly the way you’d imagined it
Reviewed: 12-29-22
Equal Rites is one of those books that makes you laugh and weep over the course of a single paragraph. It’s so sweet and ugly and human, in the way that only Pratchett can really capture.
The narrator does a densely gorgeous job with the text. Sure, she does a mean Nanny Ogg. But she dials it back with everything else, letting the story tell itself.
Play this for anyone and everyone in your life who has anything resembling a heart.
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Dirk Gently: Two BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield, Olivia Colman, Jan Ravens, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 212
The complete BBC Radio collection bringing together two full-cast dramatisations of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Dirk Gently has an unshakable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and he's drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- By Tony Arduini on 06-29-20
- Dirk Gently: Two BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Harry Enfield, Olivia Colman, Jan Ravens, Peter Davison, Billy Boyd, Full Cast
Gentle(y) reintroduction of Adams to the modern era
Reviewed: 12-29-22
I grew up on Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide. To put it succinctly, this adaptation of the Dirk Gently series captures a lot of the imagination and insanity that was banging around his skull when he wrote that first radio play.
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