The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Re-Read 2/22/25:

Comfort food Pratchett.

And for that, I do solemnly swear that I will pretend that rats have intelligence on the off chance that the rats will follow through with their promise to pretend that I do, too.

Nice to return to this, even if it isn't my favorite Pratchett.

It's very satisfying.

My synesthesia review would have to include an immense amount of cat fur. It will be found everywhere, including over all my favorite in-house rodents.


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Re-read 2019

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.

But no, this isn't all this is.

Talking rats and one very special talking cat and a stupid-looking boy con their way through Discworld. What more could anyone want? Villains, pied pipers, rats in human skin? Ah! But this is Pratchett and we've got all that and sausages that don't deserve the name sausage.

It really is quite delightful. :)

No. Not the sausage. The BOOK. :)

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