The Fifth Elephant
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3.6 • 12 Ratings
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
'Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people.
They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That mastering it is a lifetime's work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction. It's not something you can just pick up on the job.
A few days ago Sam Vimes was a copper - an important copper, true - chief of police - but still, at his core, a policeman. But today he is an ambassador - to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Today, Sam Vimes is also a man on the run.
At some point during his ambassadorship, things went very wrong. It's snowing. It's freezing. And if Vimes can't make it through the forest, with only his wits and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask), there's going to be a terrible war.
There are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves - and they're catching up.
The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Fifth Elephant is the fifth book in the City Watch series.
'Precisely balanced . . . a cracking comic thriller' The Times
© Terry and Lyn Pratchett 1999 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
Customer Reviews
Brilliant voices, okay dialogue
Unsurprisingly, Jon Culshaw does the voices incredibly well. His Vimes is wonderful, his Cheery is one of the few Scottish accents I can stand (though still imperfect), and a tiny note that his Gaspode, though that style had never occurred to me, feels completely perfect and is now canon for me.
It’s just a shame he chews the scenery a bit for the non-dialogue bits. Pratchett should be light-touch, almost throwaway.
It’s a shame…
A shame , I really wanted to like these but The new recordings attempt to dramatise the narrative too much and lose the rhythm, the humour, the expressive nature of the original recordings in the way people like Raymond, Nigel, Tony all did. And apple have now removed all the original unabridged versions from the store…so they are lost.