Monstrous Regiment/The Wee Free Men

Lafortezza

Got these 2 books for Christmas and only recently found time to read them.

**Spoilers!** Don't read below if you haven't read the books

Monstrous Regiment: IMO the worst Pratchett book I've ever read. Absolute poo. The whole women masquerading as men joke wore too thin very early in the book. Hardly a big surprise to find out they were all women in the end.
Sergeant Jackrum was a decent character but the rest were all pale imitations of other better written characters from Pratchetts other books. Maldict the vampire, Igor(ina), and Jade the troll were all terrible characters compared to other vampires/trolls/igors that have appeared in other books.
Very disappointing.

The Wee Free Men: I'm aware this was a kids book, still readable though I thought this was fairly enjoyable. The Feegles voices/accents are enough to raise many a smile, and the whole scottish highlander pisstake thing was funny through most of the book. The story itself was fairly good, but I don't think Tiffany's character was strong enough to carry it herself. She was like a mini-me watered down version of Granny Weatherwax.
Entertaining enough read though.

mneh

Commissar

I'ld have to agree that Monstrous Regiment wasn't particularly funny but I still thought that it was a good read.

Pratchett seems to have exhausted the development of his other characters. Nightwatch in particular comes to mind. I don't think it tied in with the background of the watch which was portrayed in the earlier books at all.

It was always portrayed as being useless and completely unrespected and suddenly we find out that it spearheaded a revoloution just 20 or so years previously?

It seems to me he was really scraping the bottom of the barrel when he came up with that story.

Havelock

Nightwatch, it wasn't the night watch, it was Keel orginally till Carcer killed him.
And it wasn't a revoultion. It was a blockade of a few streets.

Yes in my Opinon MR was poor by comparision.

Wee men rocked! More Feegles.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

MR was.. well, just not great
i don't think it should be included in the discworld series as it just didn't feel 'discworld' .

by the second character it wasn't too hard to guess the troops 'horrible secret' and it got old.. fast

nightwatch was fantastic imo, wasn't as much a comedy as other discworld books but it was a great book, loved every page of it

Lafortezza

Must go have a look for Nightwatch, haven't got anything to read at the moment.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

it's out in paperback.

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I would disagree with Pratchett scraping the bottom of the barrel with Night watch. I think its one of the most entertaining discworld books. In particular i loved the character of Carcer. It certainly was a little bit different to a lot of the previous Discworld novels but since The Colour of Magic, the series has been in a constant state of revolution(for want of a better word).

I'd have to agree MR certainly isn't among his best novels, but it was still a decent read and you cant expect him to come out with a masterpiece every single time.

As for the wee free men, I thought it was pretty good. I liked the nac mac feegle and thought they made the book.

bozzie

i thought night watgch rocked it had a barkness to the humour that wasnt seen anywhere else in the dw series
mr was crap but i will admit that it had its good parts too the maskerading as men got thin very fast and it wasvery evident in the story