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timepiececlockI was in the grocery store parking lot yesterday listening to my audiobook when Maurice died and I had a tear gather at the corner of my eye.
I've never gotten teared up over a cat before, in any book. But I just came to love Maurice and his ethical dilemmas and his catness warring with his conscience. I felt so sorry for him in the end here, how the rat king obliterated his mind and then he died of his wounds while carrying out Dangerous Beans's body.
But then it was all okay! Because he was only on his fifth life. And cats have nine, right? ::claps::
The only other time a Discworld scene made me close to tearing up was in the fifth book Sourcery, which wasn't even one of my favorites, when Rincewind sees the UU library has been destroyed and he's searching through the ashes for the Librarian or, at worst, the Librarian's body. His only real friend.
I'm thinking of buying this book (Amazing Maurice) and giving it to my second cousin, who's nine, I think. I hope she'll love it too.
Now I can move onto Nightwatch which I have in paperback form, so I won't be listening to it in audiobook.
That's a good thing, because the last couple audiobooks were narrated by Stephen Briggs, whereas the first 23 books were narrated by Nigel Planer. I liked Nigel Planer better, especially with the Watch characters.
I've never gotten teared up over a cat before, in any book. But I just came to love Maurice and his ethical dilemmas and his catness warring with his conscience. I felt so sorry for him in the end here, how the rat king obliterated his mind and then he died of his wounds while carrying out Dangerous Beans's body.
But then it was all okay! Because he was only on his fifth life. And cats have nine, right? ::claps::
The only other time a Discworld scene made me close to tearing up was in the fifth book Sourcery, which wasn't even one of my favorites, when Rincewind sees the UU library has been destroyed and he's searching through the ashes for the Librarian or, at worst, the Librarian's body. His only real friend.
I'm thinking of buying this book (Amazing Maurice) and giving it to my second cousin, who's nine, I think. I hope she'll love it too.
Now I can move onto Nightwatch which I have in paperback form, so I won't be listening to it in audiobook.
That's a good thing, because the last couple audiobooks were narrated by Stephen Briggs, whereas the first 23 books were narrated by Nigel Planer. I liked Nigel Planer better, especially with the Watch characters.
