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

[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 . . .