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Title: Strata
Author: Terry Pratchett
Narrator: Stephen Briggs
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-05-08
Publisher: ISIS Audio Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 37 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilised plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard that reads "End Nuclear Testing Now", doesn't dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape of her initials during her own high-spirited youth.
But then came a discovery of something that did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new....
Members Reviews:
how does this man think of these things?
I have just finished listening to this book, and the way Terry Prachetts mind works facinates me. I am almost completely blind but somehow this man lets me SEE the things he is talking about, and there is so much variety in his writing. This book takes us clear into a future that may or may not happen, but makes us wish that it would, no other writer makes me feel this way, and takes me laughing into his strange worlds.
A miss step for Terry
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Yes as I'm a big Pratchett fan. No as it was, by far, the worst novel he has penned.
The characters where very thin, not 'believable'. I must admit I didn't really follow the plot. (and on this one occasion Terry lost the plot).
There where several occasions that sentences just didn't make sense.
Stephen does a good, though not as great a job as usual
This is only for die hard fans!
Strata - where DiscWorld probably began
When listening/reading this, it really should be remembered that this a very early book from TP. It is complicated - but I enjoy that. What I also find fascinating are the references that show the first glimmerings of the idea of discWorld emerging. And as ever with Terry's books, hidden in there is some very complex and interesting philosophy. Also, as ever, Stephen Briggs is brilliant - he doesn't merely narrate - he performs this book.
amazingly relevant considering when it was written
the thing about Pratchett is that he just knows how to write humans. even sci fi future humans..
this is a great story. love the fact it touches on discworld in a non magical setting.. screw about with physics a bit..nice.
read brilliantly with some tricky accents that are held very consistently.
recommended!
Excellent performance of a great story.
A real shame storyline didn't get picked up again. As with any other Terry Pratchett work this is Quirky, Witty, Outstandingly Clever, and playfull.
This is a different taken on Terry.. clearly demonstrating an ability to captivate and build characters somehow using less words and engaging more imagination or the readers/listeners behalf..
..I'm already looking forward to the re-"read".
Terry left us all too soon...I'd like to think he's off stacking discworlds on the back of elephants standing on top of turtle's and hurtling the off through some far flung corner of space.
All the best,
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Title: Strata
Author: Terry Pratchett
Narrator: Stephen Briggs
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-05-08
Publisher: ISIS Audio Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 37 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilised plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard that reads "End Nuclear Testing Now", doesn't dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape of her initials during her own high-spirited youth.
But then came a discovery of something that did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new....
Members Reviews:
how does this man think of these things?
I have just finished listening to this book, and the way Terry Prachetts mind works facinates me. I am almost completely blind but somehow this man lets me SEE the things he is talking about, and there is so much variety in his writing. This book takes us clear into a future that may or may not happen, but makes us wish that it would, no other writer makes me feel this way, and takes me laughing into his strange worlds.
A miss step for Terry
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Yes as I'm a big Pratchett fan. No as it was, by far, the worst novel he has penned.
The characters where very thin, not 'believable'. I must admit I didn't really follow the plot. (and on this one occasion Terry lost the plot).
There where several occasions that sentences just didn't make sense.
Stephen does a good, though not as great a job as usual
This is only for die hard fans!
Strata - where DiscWorld probably began
When listening/reading this, it really should be remembered that this a very early book from TP. It is complicated - but I enjoy that. What I also find fascinating are the references that show the first glimmerings of the idea of discWorld emerging. And as ever with Terry's books, hidden in there is some very complex and interesting philosophy. Also, as ever, Stephen Briggs is brilliant - he doesn't merely narrate - he performs this book.
amazingly relevant considering when it was written
the thing about Pratchett is that he just knows how to write humans. even sci fi future humans..
this is a great story. love the fact it touches on discworld in a non magical setting.. screw about with physics a bit..nice.
read brilliantly with some tricky accents that are held very consistently.
recommended!
Excellent performance of a great story.
A real shame storyline didn't get picked up again. As with any other Terry Pratchett work this is Quirky, Witty, Outstandingly Clever, and playfull.
This is a different taken on Terry.. clearly demonstrating an ability to captivate and build characters somehow using less words and engaging more imagination or the readers/listeners behalf..
..I'm already looking forward to the re-"read".
Terry left us all too soon...I'd like to think he's off stacking discworlds on the back of elephants standing on top of turtle's and hurtling the off through some far flung corner of space.
All the best,