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I didn't fully click with this particular Pratchett when it first came out, and I still can't count it among my favorites now. This is in spite of Polly being a wonderful and relatable character. But this novel suffers from of the structural problems that plague a few of Pratchett's books -- there's a fun opening, and often an exciting climax, but the middle just sort of meanders aimlessly, dependent on the quality of the witticism and shenanigans, and this book does not contain my favorite exam
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How could anyone not like Terry Pratchett? This book manages to grapple with politics, religion, subjugation of women, corruption in the armed forces, foreign policy, bad acting, and prejudices of all sorts, but lead you to believe it's just a ripping good story. A hilariously good story. It brings a whole new meaning to socks.
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Discworld. Polly Perks has been observing the men that come into her father's inn for a year now, carefully noting all their belches and ball scratching, and when the recruitment wagon comes to town, she cuts her hair, puts on a pair of pants, and joins the Borogravian Army as Oliver Perks. All of these things qualify as an Abomination under the national deity, Nuggan, but so do dwarves and garlic, and no matter what, Polly's determined to find her brother, who joined the Ins-and-Outs hasn't bee
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This was another of the good ones, and another of the "serious" ones. Absurdity abounded, satire was devastatingly on-point, and I'm pretty sure Pratchett managed to work an entire semester's worth of college coursework on gender identity, expression and social construction into a really very entertaining novel. There were a couple of points towards the middle where I worried that I might be missing things, but I caught up again eventually. Fantastic new characters and some great appearances by
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This book brought up, but didn't seem to resolve, many interesting points about gender issues. I'm still not sure how I feel about that aspect, but as a "light reading" book, I very much enjoyed it.
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Apr 06, 2012
Sharon
marked it as to-read
