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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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Publisher's 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.
Critic Reviews
"An astonishing novel." (Financial Times)
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- Michelle
- 16-10-2023
Great again
Thank you for another great listen I wish there were even more like it yes
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- Charni
- 22-07-2023
Needs a different narrator
Brilliant story as per usual from Sir Terry Pratchett, but this narrator is awful. He pauses at strange places, his voices are samey and his annunciation is terrible, I'm still not 100% sure what the names of the rats are because of his bad diction.
I'd recommend the book, but not this particular iteration
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-11-2023
Top notch story, but narration severely lacking
The character voices were inconsistent and all very same-y. The pacing was off, and the random pauses mid-sentence seem as tho Ariyon was reading punctuation that shouldn't actually be there. Also the delivery of lines, was often off-the-mark, with the wrong emphasis or emotion. Overall I'm not sure if it's down to the voice actor, or the directing, or if there just weren't enough takes done to get it right. I would recommend going for the other version of this book on audible, narrated by Tony Robinson.
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