As to which ones I might humbly suggest you listen to that's hard because they are all good but you might start with "The Wee Free Men". If you haven't experienced any of the Discworld audio books yet I heartily recommend that you give one or two of them a try. The distinction is a very important one in my opinion. Indeed in the introduction to most of his recordings it says "performed" by Stephen Briggs, not "read" by. His pacing and ability to capture the mood of each passage that he's reading is faultless. (Most of the dwarves have a South Wales accent for instance which works very well). His understanding and love of the books is obvious and the accents he gives to each character is clearly well thought out and just right for that character. In particular Stephen Briggs readings are amongst the best I've ever come across. For all of them recording the readings was clearly a labour of love. With the Discworld books however we are blessed in having readers like Tony Robinson, Nigel Planer, Celia Imrie and Stephen Briggs who is the reader on the great majority of the books. I appreciate that for most of us our first and principal experience of The Discworld books has been through the medium of the printed word but I wonder how many of you have listened to any of the audio books? I'm a big fan of audio books but I'm often frustrated by recordings where the reader seems to have no understanding of the book or it's characters or is simply not very good at reading aloud.
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