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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.
The book that inspired the big-hit new film
The audiobook of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is read by Ariyon Bakare (Good Omens; His Dark Materials). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually; Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace; Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan.
IT'S A RAT-EAT-RAT WORLD…
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.
The rules have changed. And this story is no longer dancing to the piper's tune…
With a new introduction written and read by Rob Wilkins.
The Discworld novels can be enjoyed in any order, but The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is a standalone novel.
The first book in the Discworld series—The Colour of Magic—was published in 1983. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this.
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"An astonishing novel." (Financial Times)
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Sharifa G.
- 08-10-22
Disappointed
Terry pratchett is always good but the narrator was not so good. I was very disappointed in the reading.
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- Adanaya
- 06-11-22
narrator AGAIN
l love this book. luckily l hsve the paper version, because this narrator killed it stone dead. He judt doesn't get it. Adverbs and resctions to them. voices in general. l was expecting something so different, which is why l was so disappointed
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- Mr. A. Pepper
- 20-01-24
everything
nothing at all it was completely and utterly flawless it was the best book of all time
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