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The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

(Discworld Novel 28)

By Terry Pratchett

(81)

| eBook | 9781407070506

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Book Description

Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam. Everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice has a stupid-looking kid with a pipe, and his very own plague of rats - strangely educated rats . . .

But in Bad Blintz, the little con sudde Continue

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The rat in the hat

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett 269pp Doubleday £12.99 A talking rat is fighting for his life against a terrier, inside a circle of excited men who whoop and roar and snarl. Another rat bungee-jumps down from the rafte ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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Strangely, this little novel doesn't appear to be counted amongst the Discworld series, despite the fact that it IS set in the Discworld...world. I have seen reviewers say this book is too simplistic, a side effect of apparently having been written w ... (read full critics)

blogcritics published on Tue, 6 Jan 2004

4 Reviews

First Pratchett I have read.Adult fairy story which made me laugh out loud.Will certainly read some others

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Ragazza said on May 30, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

I have to admit that I struggled a bit to get into this book; the first chapters are entertaining but not too amazing, but once the Rat King appears, the tone and the rhythm rise a lot. Then, it is a great adventure written in Terry Pratchett's usual style, funny but vaguely creepy. Not a children b ... (continue)

I have to admit that I struggled a bit to get into this book; the first chapters are entertaining but not too amazing, but once the Rat King appears, the tone and the rhythm rise a lot. Then, it is a great adventure written in Terry Pratchett's usual style, funny but vaguely creepy. Not a children book, maybe it could justify the use of the awful expression "young adults" as the intended target. Whichever the target, anyway, it is a really good read. And some of the "usual" Discworld characters make an appearance. To mention one... well, I guess I only need to write SQUEAK.

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Marco Piva said on Mar 2, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

A very good book. Refreshing, in a sense.
After more than 20 Discworld books, I have to admit stories with the usual cast of characters start to wear thin. That's why a change is very welcome.
Mind you: it's always the Discworld, and it's always Pratchett. This is both good and bad at the ... (continue)

A very good book. Refreshing, in a sense.
After more than 20 Discworld books, I have to admit stories with the usual cast of characters start to wear thin. That's why a change is very welcome.
Mind you: it's always the Discworld, and it's always Pratchett. This is both good and bad at the same time, for the reasons above.
Nonetheless, books like this one are refreshing: it's a little like discovering Pratchett for the first time. Again.

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Simbul said on Aug 5, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Not my favorite Pratchett, but it's a charming children's book parodying the Pied Piper story.

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guaddess said on Sep 23, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback