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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

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becalec's review

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adventurous funny

4.5

all_piss_and_vinegar's review

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

robotswithpersonality's review against another edition

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I will emphasize this book is listed as (for young ADULTS). I would hesitate to recommend this to anyone younger than a teenager. I would also caution the fellow vegans and the animal lovers, there are some rough spots. Maurice, as a cat, is a less sympathetic conman than Moist was in Going Postal, but he redeems himself marvelously. Malicia is a work in progress. The climax was action-packed, then moving, and the resolution was clever, not that I should expect anything less from a Terry Pratchett Discworld book. He was not afraid to put the tough questions, the concept of corruption/fraud and the messy complexity of (functioning?) society in front of a younger audience.

mrsquidbeak84's review

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adventurous dark funny hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

aleks_png's review

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4.0

I love rats :(

dwrib's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

When I finished it last night I gave it three stars because it was drastically different from any of the other Discworld books and I didn’t like the change but I woke up this morning still thinking about it. I’ve changed my review to 4.75 stars because I think it may have genuinely changed how I view the world around me. It’s a challenging read (not in the sense that it’s difficult to read but because of the plot and the extreme range of emotion) but I definitely recommend it.

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aratecla_the_bookrat's review

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5.0

I was given this book as a gift, being a mother of rats and adoring my furry babies. I know Terry Pratchett's style but it always surprises me how there is a balance between humour and wisdom. This is a wonderful story that has a deep meaning and that leaves you thinking long after finishing reading it. With an apparently simple story humans are portrayed for what they really are: Earth's vermins. Humans consider themselves above anyone and every other living been that can be of use or worse, considered useless, is cruelly terminated. Even when confronted with the reality that other beings (in this case rats) have feelings and are intelligent, the human mind find it difficult to change opinion and gets stuck in a mantra "but it's a rat, but it's only a rat...".
I enjoyed thoroughly this book and I felt every emotion together with the rats.
I'd like to think that an ending like the one in the book is possible but humans will be always humans.. Nevertheless, it's definitely worth a read especially if you don't like rats and you'd like to view them in a different light.