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The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

(Discworld Novel 28)

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The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

By: Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Ariyon Bakare, Rob Wilkins, Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz
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Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before.

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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 suddenly goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune and now the rats must learn a new word. EVIL. It's not a game any more. It's a rat-eat-rat world. And that might only be the start . . .

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is a standalone novel.

'An astonishing novel' Financial Times

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Critic reviews

Ethically challenging, beautifully orchestrated, philosophically opposed to the usual plot fixes of fantasy
Excruciatingly funny, ferociously intelligent.
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of... stuff one can find in a Terry Pratchett book
Amazing Maurice has one of the most satisfying and effective endings in the series!
Humour, humour and more humour, an utterly unpredictable plot, interesting rats - err, characters - and a profound denoument, this is Discworld at its best.
All stars
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The book, as all Pratchett books, is marvellous!

The reading by Ariyon Bakare is spot on! I had liked Stephen Briggs' performance on the older audiobook (I had especially liked his Michael Caine - like Darktan), but was annoyed by the American accent he had, for some reason, given to the Amazing Maurice. Ariyon Bakare's Maurice really sounds like a British cat would sound (if said cat spoke in English).

Highly recommended!

A hugely enjoyable listen!

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I read this book when it first came out but had forgotten the details of the plot since then, so listening to this recording was like hearing the story for the first time again.

Ariyon has a wonderful voice and doesn’t go too over the top with character voices/accents, which works for me. His pacing is perfect and the combination between the writing and the narrator is just fantastic when it comes to building tension. I audibly gasped at the end of chapter 8 and I had to keep coming back to listen to more and find out what happens to this little crew of loveable characters.

These new recordings have lured me back into the Discworld, and I couldn’t be happier about it. I look forward to listening to the rest.

An Amazing Audiobook!

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I loved this book when I read it a few years ago, and did enjoy listening to it, but I had some difficulties with the narration. Nothing major, just that the narrator has a deep voice and is limited on voice acting, so sometimes I got confused about "who" was supposed to be doing the talking. Also, there we aspects of the story that I didn't enjoy as much when read out loud. Likely because when I fear to myself I can "self edit" to enjoy the story more, but when someone else is reading it to you you're stuck with their interpretation...and in this case I found it occasional jarring.

Enjoyable... with some personal challenges

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But monsieur Bakare certainly came up trumps. His characterization of the two main humans was really good, but Maurice and the individual rats was great. Well done sir! The story is one of Pratchett's best, even if it's a stand-alone Discworld novel and supposedly for young adults. I thoroughly enjoyed it (twice), leaving the car was a struggle.

wasn't sure at first

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Gripping and so well written. Pratchett at his best! Terry P was an astute reader of the human being. What vivid writing!

Brilliant

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