Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Monstrous Regiment

By Terry Pratchett

A Novel of Discworld

On the Discworld, the small country of Borogravia is at war. Again. Borogravia has a long history of making war on pretty much everyone around it, a ruler who no one is sure is even alive, and a god who has Abominated practically everything and who may be either insane or dead.Polly Perks has decided to disguise herself as a boy and join the army to find her brother, who joined up and then disappeared. She joins the Ins-and-Outs, and quickly discovers not only does her regiment include a vampire, an Igor, and a troll, along with humans, but she may not be the only one with a secret. They are shipped out to the front immediately with no training and bad, secondhand weapons and armor. Now they must rely on each other, the fat, famous, and possibly insane or demonic Sargent Jackrum, and sheer luck to survive. SUCH a good book. SOOO funny. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! I laughed hysterically right through it. I absolutly love Terry Pratchett's books, and this one is no exeption.

8 comments:

  1. hehe! i looove igors! just the type of person i would like to have around! they are so handy, and polite, and the lisp is really funny!

    well... i would like to have something like an igor, just not as covered in stitches, and cuts.

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  2. hmmm... never heard of that; would that be a female Igor?

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  3. Yeah, only instead of being traditionally ugly, like Igors, they are traditionally beautiful, with a few decorative scars and stitches here and there.

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  4. do they still have a lithp?

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  5. cause I would really only get one for the lithp....

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  6. igorina it ith-er IS, then!

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