Rating: 5/5
Review:
Classic Pratchett
Terry Pratchett wrote this for young adults, but
this…er…mature adult also enjoyed it very much indeed.
The Amazing Maurice is a cat who suddenly found that he
could think and to talk. He now travels
with a group of rats who have been given the same abilities and, with a young
boy playing the pipe, travel from town to town doing a sort of Pied Piper act
to con the townspeople. However, they
begin to develop a conscience about this and then arrive in a town where
something sinister is plainly going on…
It's classic Pratchett: gripping, funny, ingenious and
quietly full of some important human and moral considerations. The portrait of Maurice's behaviour as a cat
is very amusing, there are some great side-swipes at the conventions of fairy
tales and so on. And anyway, anyone who
doesn't like a story featuring a thoughtful, moral rat called Dangerous Beans
is, quite frankly, a wrong 'un.
I've managed somehow to miss out on The Amazing Maurice up
to now. I'm very glad to have put that
right and can recommend this warmly to readers of all ages.
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