It’s ages since I read a Discworld novel, and that’s my fault really. I’ve had a couple of false starts over the last few years, but I plan on making good on this. First up was the latest Discworld paperback – Monstrous Regiment.
It’s not really worth explaining the plot here, except to say that it involves young Polly joining the Ins-and-Outs regiment disguised as a man so that she can go and find her brother who went to war some time ago. The rag tag bunch of recruits she hooks up with have some, er, secrets of their own.
The whole thing is obviously a parody of the stupidity of war and all that involves.
The book’s entertaining, if not one of the best, and can be demolished in nearly a single sitting – just as long as you have quite a long sitting to get through five hundred pages or so…