Pratchetts Discworld Story Poll - what is best in life?

[pukunui]

I did not like Monstrous Regiment but perhaps it's worth a reread. My actual at-home Discworld collection is woefully small. I think I must have borrowed most of them from the public library over the years. Popped into a used bookstore the other day, but they only had copies of books I already owned.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

For Monstrous Regiment, it helps if you know what the title is a reference to.

 

[pukunui]

Since I don't have that book in my collection, I decided to re-read the Tiffany Aching series again (or at least the first four).

 

[Tonguez]

For Monstrous Regiment, it helps if you know what the title is a reference to.

The first thing the name invoked in my mind was DCs Creature Commandos and only later connected the Monstrous Regiment of Women (which I was only vaguely aware of). The trope is well established regardless (I think I may have watched the BBC production of Tipping the Velvet just prior to reading Monstrous Regiment so that may have been an influence too)

I did not like Monstrous Regiment but perhaps it's worth a reread. My actual at-home Discworld collection is woefully small. I think I must have borrowed most of them from the public library over the years. Popped into a used bookstore the other day, but they only had copies of books I already owned.

Anyway its certainly an unexpected diversion from core of the Discworld series and is a bleaker tale with less obvious humour and wittiness than Pratchetts usual style. It did enjoy the story and exploration of themes but I do not think I would return to it for a repeat read when there is so much other material to explore.