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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
- (Discworld Novel 28)
- Narrated by: Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy, Rob Wilkins, Ariyon Bakare
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
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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- LAMBROS LAMBROU
- 04-01-23
A hugely enjoyable listen!
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!
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- Dai Wynne-Jones
- 16-11-22
Brilliant
Gripping and so well written. Pratchett at his best! Terry P was an astute reader of the human being. What vivid writing!
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- J. E. Murphy
- 16-02-23
Enjoyable... with some personal challenges
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.
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- bryan glasspool
- 27-03-24
brilliant listen
A fantastic book filled with his usually observations and humour. Terry is greatly missed by his fans, but still enjoyed.
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- rhett edwards
- 08-01-23
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This was the first Terry Pratchett book I read 20 odd years ago and I have really enjoyed listening to it this time around
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- Cara Bull
- 02-11-22
Too scary for grown ups
It took me a while to get into the narration, but eventually the sheer brilliance of the story overwhelmed the not-amazing narrator.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-10-22
Where rats and cats fear to thread
Maurice is a talking cat that has his own group of rats following him, as well as a boy. Together they get rich by pretending to save towns from rats. But their last job goes very wrong. There's something else in the shadows of their new town...
I wasn't expecting the book to be scary, but it is made for Halloween! Peter Seratinowicz does a very good narration job (the rat king whispers are scary good, but not good in noisy transports - be warned!). A brilliant story about stories. The short note from Rob Wilkins at the end is also worth it.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-12-22
A true masterpiece!
Years ago, one of the first books I ever took an interest in was an audio book, borrowed from the library, of Tony Robinson reading The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. This new performance is unabridged and made me feel like the little boy again, listening to a new story that I thought I knew. It presents concepts that many children’s stories don’t think to present to children, but in a comical and lighthearted way. I always find reading or hearing a Pratchett book is like having a philosophy lesson, presented in a fun and engaging way.
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- Julie B
- 23-01-24
1 tickets for childhood story
Perfection as a story.
Perfect interpretation.
One of Pratchett's many Chef d'oeuvres.
A direct trip to childhood nostalgia if you grew up with that book.
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- Nastia
- 24-07-24
Shame about poor narration
A fantastic story very poorly read, would advise to read the book rather than listening to it’s audio version
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