The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28) (Discworld Novels)

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Rats! They’re everywhere: in the breadbins, dancing across tabletops, stealing pies from under the cooks’ noses. So what does every town need? A good piper to lure them away. The best part about this book, aside from criminal talking animals, is the existential crisis all the rats are going through. They all have names like Dangerous Beans and Hamnpork and Sardines, but some rats are smarter and more enlightened than others. So there’s this whole thing about rats learning what it means to be people and not rats that was as moving as it was ridiculous. It also works really well as a contrast against the “villain” of the book, a rat king, which was disgusting, don’t google it it’s a real thing.

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This may be billed as a YA novel by the redoubtable Pratchett, but I'm just going to shrug. It's fun and funny and I will always look at this novel as a sly reference to Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, including multiple minds linked together to make a full intelligence. No, not wolves. RATS. Such a lovely image.Many characters are animals, though there is ethnic diversity among the human characters, with one of the leads, Keith, having brown skin and voiced by Himesh Patel, a British Asian actor of Indian descent. Female character Malicia is clever, reads a lot, and is brave, adventurous, and good at problem solving, though at one point is told she talks too much. A passing comment reinforces traditional gender roles: "If I don't hear ladies screaming and running out of their kitchens ..." A male character is told he's not handsome enough for a love interest, which could support unhealthy looks-oriented stereotypes and expectations. I've only got a couple more Discworld books I've not read, both part of the Tiffany Aching y-a series. And then I will (after many years of negligence) be 100% up-to-date with the series! The Amazing Maurice was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Dazzler Media (under license from Universal Pictures) on 1 May 2023. [16] Reception [ edit ] Box office [ edit ]

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They didn’t notice that some rats stayed on the bridge, urging the others with shouts of ‘Remember, strong regular strokes!’ and ‘There’s a nice beach just downstream!’ and ‘Hit the water feet first, it won’t hurt so much!’ Malicia believes that the rat catchers are up to something and so she, Maurice, and Keith break into the rat catchers' hut. The film stars Hugh Laurie ( Avenue 5) as Maurice, Emilia Clarke ( Game of Thrones) as Malicia, David Thewlis ( Wonder Woman) as Boss Man, Himesh Patel ( Yesterday) as Keith, Gemma Arterton ( The King’s Man) as Peaches, Hugh Bonneville ( Downton Abbey) as The Mayor, David Tennant ( Doctor Who) as Dangerous Beans, Ariyon Bakare ( His Dark Materials) as Darktan, Rob Brydon ( Roald & Beatrix: The Tale of the Curious Mouse) as The Pied Piper, Julie Atherton ( Avenue Q) as Nourishing YouTuber Joe Sugg as Sardines, and Peter Serafinowicz as DEATH.Here's why Pratchett is a miss with me. I want to experience the story as a character. This requires a deep point of view. But Pratchett always does this (to the tune of Row Your Boat): One of my favourite moments probably was towards the end when this song was sung (imagine it being sung to one of the usual military cadences): Maurice is an intelligent talking cat that has masterminded a scheme where his gang of intelligent talking rats and a human boy go from town-to-town implementing a plague of rats and then having the boy pipe them out of town for a fee. The group arrive at the town of Bad Blintz for one last job only to find a town that already has a rat problem. A very odd one.

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The Amazing Maurice , a Sky Original will be released on Sky Cinema in the UK, and by Telepool in Germany in 2022 and in cinemas worldwide. Well, you probably won’t be surprised to know that I’ve got two dreadful step-sisters,’ said Malicia. ‘And I have to do all the chores!’An avid fan of TV, he is an expert on both Doctor Who and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, with the latter the study of his University dissertation, and when not glued to his laptop, he loves to spend time out for a drink with friends or watching his beloved Liverpool Football Club in his hometown of Bath. Keith, (Maurice's pet human) just never got more that a 'meh' from me, my heart was all with the rats come the end. Darktan – the leader of the rats' Trap Disposal Squad. After his near-death experience and the death of Hamnpork, Darktan becomes the Clan's new leader. Darktan, although an older rat, is much more progressive than Hamnpork. He is well-respected by all the rats because his knowledge of how to disarm traps helps keep them alive.

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Darktan, the rats' trap expert, leads a group to rescue Hamnpork, and succeeds after nearly dying in a trap. The group plans to enact a scheme they have used many times before, where in the rats pretend to infest the town and Keith poses as a rat piper to lead the "vermin" away for a small sum of cash. Discuss the themes of friendship and teamwork in the film. How were they shown to be important? Can you think of a time when you were there for a friend in need or when you worked with others to achieve a goal?This is a film with a lot of charm, and gives cinema its most lovable rats since Ratatouille. But I did wonder at points who the audience is. Little ’uns may be puzzled by the sophisticated wordplay – in particular the meta commentary of Emilia Clarke’s character Malicia, the clever clogs bookworm daughter of the mayor of Furry Bottom, as she pokes fun at plot cliches. And older kids may feel too grown up for cute fluffy talking animals. But when they get to a town that already has a rat problem, and things there are very strange, their scheme takes a turn. The Pied Piper was one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. I'd feel sure that I wouldn't have been invited with the other kids to follow the music. Jesus, Mariel. (I liked the idea of everyone being gone way too much...) Pratchett won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K. [2] It was his first major award. [1] Series [ edit ] This is a Discworld novel though don't expect any of the usual characters to appear - there are no wizards - apart from Death and the Death of Rats, who make only a fleeting appearance. Yes, some animals do perish in this book, but don't worry remember how many lives cats have.