Besides the rats, I like how much more complicated thinking makes everything in Maurice. Pratchett really helps the reader understand the challenges of building a society in basically one generation. The rats are plagued with new questions. What's their place in the world? What do they owe other thinking creatures? What do they owe non thinking rats? Is it alright to eat someone if you know they didn't die of poison and leave the green wobbly bit?
A bit on The Siren - Possible spoilers
I've started The Siren and am having a little trouble getting into it. I suspect that's because there's so little dialog and I expect that will change. Dialog is my preferred method of seeing how the characters work and get along with each other. But the beginning is an introduction to the world and covers a lot of time as well as an introspective period of the narrator's existence. There's several interesting things about this book. There's a good use of the ancient and pretty universal belief that sacrifice is needed to maintain life. The Sirens not being mythological creatures is a nice take on them.
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