Monstrous Regiment Audiobook

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• “Like Jonathan Swift, Practhett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent…Incredibly funny…Compulsively readable.”

  — Times (London)

• “Very funny…Pratchett takes full and hilarious advantage of the opportunity to skewer everything from military courts-martial to male swagger.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “Pratchett is difficult to review because you want to offer up your favorite scenes and allusions…Pratchett revels in pricking pomp and assurance…He can move from farce to sadness in seconds…Monstrous Regiment is most often spirited and shambolic, but it jas some serious heft.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Pratchett flexes his satirical muscles again…Thoroughly funny and surprisingly insightful.”

  — Booklist

• “Surprisingly meaningful, but never short of hilarious; a monstrous success for Pratchett.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “One wild war story…Clever, fast-paced, and funny.”

  — St. Paul Pioneer Press

• “An edgier, funnier version of J. R. R. Tolkein…Monstrous Regiment skewers the war hawk mentality.”

  — Austin American-Statesman

• “War is hell anywhere but in Pratchett’s latest hilarious fantasy…The touching portrait of Wazzer, an abused girl who becomes a religious fanatic/saint, as well as Pratchett’s perceptive handling of a timely topic—countries fighting over a quarrel that began a thousand years ago and quibbling over borders—may inspire some sighs as well as laughter. And the author’s take on what it takes for Polly to become a man—socks, strategically placed (‘Just one pair, mark you. Don’t get ambitious’)—is nothing short of brilliant.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Terry Pratchett’s hilarious prose is significantly enhanced by the narrative skills of Stephen Briggs. The story, another in the Discworld saga, highlights the recruiting efforts of a small country chronically at war with its neighbors. A rotund sergeant and weasely corporal sweep through a small town, and one of the misfits who volunteers to thwart them is Polly Perks, disguised as a teenaged boy barely of age. Briggs takes on the misfits and makes them shine. As the little group proceeds from one improbable adventure to the next, Briggs and Pratchett are magnificent.”

  — AudioFile