The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
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“Delves into weighty issues but keeps its sense of dark humor.” (USA Today )
“Excruciatingly funny, ferociously intelligent.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred Review) )
“Pratchett rethinks a classic story and comes up with a winner. A not–to–be–missed delight.” (School Library Journal (starred review) )
“Manages to be hilarious, moving, scary, impishly vulgar and wickedly wise, sometimes all at once.” (Locus Magazine )
“Pratchett’s absorbing, suspenseful adventure is deepened by a willingness to tackle the questions of existence.” (Horn Book Magazine )
“Pure, unadulterated fun. The action is fast paced, the dialogue witty, unforgettable.” (Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) )
“For this outrageously cheeky tale, Pratchett pairs a dynamite plot with memorable characters.” (Publishers Weekly )
“This is his first Discworld novel aimed specifically at YA readers, and it should win him new fans.” (KLIATT )
“Pratchett leaves none of his wit behind in this exploration of Discworld for younger readers.” (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (recommended) )
“Clearly destined for great things…deeply pleasurable and a wonderful and entertaining read.” (The Bookseller (Great Britain) ) --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Poche .
“Excruciatingly funny, ferociously intelligent.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred Review) )
“Pratchett rethinks a classic story and comes up with a winner. A not–to–be–missed delight.” (School Library Journal (starred review) )
“Manages to be hilarious, moving, scary, impishly vulgar and wickedly wise, sometimes all at once.” (Locus Magazine )
“Pratchett’s absorbing, suspenseful adventure is deepened by a willingness to tackle the questions of existence.” (Horn Book Magazine )
“Pure, unadulterated fun. The action is fast paced, the dialogue witty, unforgettable.” (Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) )
“For this outrageously cheeky tale, Pratchett pairs a dynamite plot with memorable characters.” (Publishers Weekly )
“This is his first Discworld novel aimed specifically at YA readers, and it should win him new fans.” (KLIATT )
“Pratchett leaves none of his wit behind in this exploration of Discworld for younger readers.” (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (recommended) )
“Clearly destined for great things…deeply pleasurable and a wonderful and entertaining read.” (The Bookseller (Great Britain) ) --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Poche .
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Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has come up with the perfect scam. Inspired by the Pied Piper tale, cat and kid lead a band of rats from town to town to fake invasions of vermin. The rewards to get the rats out of town are plentiful. It works perfectly - until their little con game is sussed.
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La vie privée des rats,
Ce commentaire fait référence à cette édition : The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Poche)
Maurice est un chat intelligent. Il vit en compagnie de rats intelligents. Et d'un jeune garçon à l'air stupide. Ce dynamique trio gagne son pain grâce à une arnaque bien rodée. Le joueur de flûte de Hamelin, ça vous dit quelque chose ?Ce roman récent de Pratchett est étiqueté livre pour enfants, et fait partie de la désormais mythique saga du Discworld. En vérité, _The Amazing Maurice_ convient parfaitement aux adultes, et seuls quelques détails le rattachent au monde plat -- aucun des héros habituels n'est présent. C'est un livre un peu étrange, un conte cynique et idéaliste à la fois, léger (pas de mort violente) et effrayant, drôle et un peu amer. Pratchett est aussi drôle que d'habitude, avec ses mots cocasses, ses situations incongrues et son talent inné pour parodier. Bref, dans un genre différent du Discworld habituel, encore un petit bijou. Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
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I have always been told that, as a fan of fantasy and humor, I needed to read Terry Pratchett. And after reading THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, I now understand what everyone was talking about. Pratchett's style is simultaneously witty, entertaining, and incisive; he succeeds in this children's book in saying more about society than most adult books ever manage, and he does so while making you laugh out loud.Set in an obscure corner of Discworld, the fantasy world in which Pratchett has written numerous other books for adults, a cat named Maurice discovers suddenly the ability to talk--and not just to talk, but to think and to reason. Maurice believes himself to be the only animal afflicted with this talent, until he discovers a group of rats living in the city dump who have also miraculously achieved the ability of speech and thought. As Maurice is emphatic about his promise to never eat anything that can talk, he and the talking rats get along rather well. Soon, along with the help of an orphan boy named Keith who was raised by a musician's guild, Maurice sets upon a scheme to make some easy money, and the rats go along in their belief that they may someday find a place where they will be free to live as talking rats without the fear of being hunted by humans. Maurice's plan is simple. If the rats will go and infest a town, wreaking havoc for the space of a few days, the town leaders will be sure to call a rat piper to remove the rats from the town. Then it's Keith's job to show up, pipe the rats away, and receive a generous fee for his troubles, one that the rats and Maurice will share. Keith, Maurice, and the rats go like this from town to town...until they reach the town of Bad Blintz, and everything stops working as planned. The story is populated by humorous characters that you can't help but take seriously. Maurice's sly cunning is undermined by the fact that he meticulously questions any rat he comes across before eating it, in order to keep up his first promise to the talking rats. The rats themselves are amusing individuals, self-named after the first things they could read in that city dump where they originated, so that the story is populated by creatures who go by Hamnpork, Darktan, Sardines, and Dangerous Beans. But under these hilarious names, they are at heart a people trying to figure out their own origins and explain the things they don't yet understand about their sudden ability to speak, and what that means for their future. I would recommend this book to anyone who's not afraid to laugh, and anyone who's not afraid to think hard about the ramifications of being a person--or rat, or cat--capable of speech, thought, and reason. Reviewed by: Candace Cunard Aidez d'autres clients à trouver les commentaires les plus utiles
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Les romans "pour jeunes" de Pratchett sont souvent ses meilleurs, et celui ci est un des plus réussis dans cette catégorie. J'ai beaucoup apprécié ce roman, plein d'esprit, drôle et malin, qui propose une version étonnante et ironique du joueur de flûte de Hamelin. Je recommande sans réserve, c'est une lecture agréable et intéressante à tout âge... L'anglais de ce livre n'est pas bien difficile à lire .. si vous pouvez lire cette langue n'hésitez pas à prendre la version anglaise où on entend mieux "la voix" de Prattchett à mon avis.
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