the amazing maurice and his educated rodents book

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is a stand-alone Discworld novel, a take on “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, Terry Pratchett-style, which means it’s funny, thought-provoking, intelligent. And as they go about setting up their scheme, they come to realise that there is something really wrong about Bad Blintz. Then they arrive in Bad Blintz, a poverty-stricken town with a pre-existing rat plague and even official rat-catchers. Travelling together from town to town in the company of a teenage piper, the idea is that the rats pose as a “plague” and the piper boy lures them away and in so doing “saves” the town and earns the crew money to keep them going.īut the rats are growing increasingly restless about their arrangement and start questioning Maurice and the ethics of their life choices.

He is amazing because he can speak and he can think, just like the group of educated rats who are his associates in a fabulous scheme to make money. So, ever since hearing about the Amazing Maurice (in Reaper Man) for the first time, I had been thinking that Maurice was the boy in the cover of my copy of the book. Why did I read this book: I am on a mission to read ALL THE TERRY PRATCHETTs and my source for all things Pratchett told me to read this one next. Standalone or series: It’s Discworld book #28 but it can be read as a standalone. For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets…. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blintz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. They’d have been really amazed if they’d ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. Publication date: First published in 2001 Title: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Today, Ana continues her ongoing love story with Sir Terry Pratchett by reading The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. What better way to snap out of a reading fugue than to take a mini-vacation into the past? We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped) books. Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature.

The amazing maurice and his educated rodents book