So early next morning she softly arose

[sovay]

I am eight pages into Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment* and already I can see that I may have to keep a sharp ballad lookout. Our heroine Polly has cut her hair, dressed in her brother's clothes, and enlisted as a soldier (in the Borogravian Army) under the name Oliver:

"Age?"

"Seventeen come Sunday, sir."

"Yeah, right," said the sergeant.

*I am convalescing on all the Terry Pratchett I've missed in the last several years. Yesterday was The Fifth Elephant, Thief of Time, and Night Watch. Today, I will be out of new Terry Pratchett. I may re-read Going Postal and Thud! anyway.

Comments

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

You did read the Tiffany Aching ones, right? The Wee Free Men and A Hat Full of Sky? They're wonderful. And did you read The Last Hero, which is the illustrated one that came somewhere after The Fifth Elephant? Last Hero is one of my two or three favorite Discworld books, and should be required reading for anyone interested in epic poetry.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Is that the one about Cohen the Barbarian?

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[sovay]

I've read The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, and I have read the adorably bizarre Where's My Cow? Other than that, I am unlearned in the ways of the spin-offs. May I borrow The Last Hero from you?

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

I actually haven't got The Last Hero because it is madly expensive-- I get it out of the library a lot-- but I think I may well give it to myself as a present when I find a job, and you could borrow it then. And I've got both Tiffany Aching books, and you should borrow those.

[chriscrick.livejournal.com]

All of Terry Pratchett's books are reads of a couple hours. But The Last Hero is a quick study even by Pratchett standards, perfectly amenable to reading while standing in the aisle at the bookstore. At least that's how I did it.

[sovay]

A time-honored tradition. (I read the last Harry Potter that way.) Now to find a bookstore . . .