Yes, I have both the book and audiobook versions of Snuff. Briggs has trouble with lots of it, probably for the same reasons you thought his Raising Steam reading wasn't the best. Pterry's "new style" for DW books is plagued by endlessly long and tortured paragraphs of exposition, and what used to be sharp and succint dialogue has been replaced by long-winded speechifying where everything a character is thinking or doing is spelled out, whereas in the past, Pterry let the reader infer the actions more from what was not "said" in the writing. Briggs' reading of Willikens is particularly strained, because Willikens shifts back and forth from this "upper class" dialogue to "street slang," sometimes in mid-sentence, and the "voice" that Briggs uses for him--which worked spectacularly in Thud!--doesn't work well at all here. Briggs often has so many words to read in one sentence that he loses the narrative grip. I don't think this is his fault at all--he is simply working with subpar material. Briggs is at this best when he's reading short sentences and scenes of dialogue. The latest DW books are not his forte. To his defense, I don't think Nigel Planer would have done a better job, either.
