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	Monstrous Regiment (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monstrous Regiment is the 31st novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
		She runs away, gives herself a boyish haircut, (although she is not quite able to part with the hair she has cut, which she considered her one beauty, and packs it in her bag), and enlists in another town under the assumed name of Oliver Perks ("Oliver" from the folk song Sweet Polly Oliver).
		The released prisoners praise the monstrous regiment's deeds until it is discovered that the men who disguised themselves as women really are women (Although Blouse takes it fairly well when everything is fully revealed, stating that he would not trade the women for any men he was offered).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monstrous_Regiment_(novel) (2371 words)

	Monstrous Regiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monstrous Regiment is an abbreviation of the title of a misogynist 16th century tract by John Knox, the full title of which is, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (the women in question were Mary, Queen of Scots and Mary Tudor).
		Monstrous Regiment was a British feminist theatre company during the 1970s and 1980s.
		Monstrous Regiment is a book by Terry Pratchett released in late 2003, part of his Discworld series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monstrous_Regiment (231 words)

	Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Monstrous Regiment is Terry Pratchett’s latest adult novel, and it’s even darker than his excellent recent young adult novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.
		Monstrous Regiment is a war novel, and though it’s full of discomfiting reminders of present-day stupidities, its main thrust is about thirty degrees off-center from what one might expect.
		Monstrous Regiment has a Dirty Dozen assortment of bizarre characters who also seem real and familiar, a meandering plot marred by the shoe-horned-in presence of familiar characters from Ankh-Morpork, and an effective indictment of social ills.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_pratchett_monstrousregiment.html (521 words)

	Tufts Daily - No laughs for Monstrous Regiment
		Though all the novels take place on the same planet, Discworld (which Pratchett often uses as a stand-in to satirize our own society), the books tend to rotate through various casts of characters from volume to volume, allowing the author to play with a variety of character archetypes and settings within the same world.
		Monstrous Regiment is unique among Pratchett's Discworld books because it features a cast and an environment created solely for this novel.
		At its heart, Monstrous Regiment is truly a one-gag book, and this becomes evident so early on that one can easily predict the eventual conflict and resolution by the end of the fourth or fifth chapter.
	www.tuftsdaily.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=15282bfd-f980-467a-9a7d-181e3d55c339 (806 words)

	Terry Pratchett: Monstrous Regiment
		Monstrous Regiment is the thirtieth novel in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, yet it does not show any signs of the series slowing down.
		His major theme, as it has been in so many of the novels, is that people are people, but he focuses specifically on the battle of the sexes in Monstrous Regiment, with forays into police states, repressive (and internally contradictory) religions, and individuality, among others.
		In any novel or film which focuses on a ragtag bunch of recruits, there is the obligatory scene in which the harsh sergeant whips them into shape and they come together as a team.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/monstrous.html (605 words)

	Terry Pratchett : Monstrous Regiment (Discworld) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Monstrous Regiment: As with 'Night Watch', this Discworld novel could probably be read apart from the others as no prior knowledge of characters or events is needed.
		Monstrous Regiment is a return of sorts to Pratchett's previous style of combining humour and social commentary.
		Monstrous Regiment continues Terry's tradition of hitting us with a more challanging and reflective novel in amongst the levity of the other books.
	books.mysic.co.uk /0552149411++Monstrous+Regiment+(discworld+S+) (1759 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Monstrous Regiment / Terry Pratchett
		Superficially, the big difference between early Discworld novels and later ones is that the humor in the early ones is broader and more cartoonish.
		Each member of the regiment has a story, some of them funny, some quite sad, and as their seemingly futile march continues, what keeps them together is that growing bond soldiers in the field develop.
		While Monstrous Regiment is imperfect and goes on a little long — the book comes close to overplaying its hand in a protracted court martial scene towards the end — it still stands proudly in the front lines of one of today's most enduring series.
	www.sfreviews.net /monstrousreg.html (888 words)

	eBay.co.uk - Monstrous Regiment, Fiction Books, Audio Books, Antiquarian Books Pre-1940 items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	Amazon.co.uk: Monstrous Regiment: Books: Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Monstrous Regiment is an amusing and action packed novel which follows a girl, Polly Perks, who is trying her best to look, act and sound like a man to get into the army in order to find her long lost brother.
		I think The Monstrous Regiment is a great book full of humour and twists, taking a typical war situation and turning it on its head.
		Monstrous Regiment is, in my opinion, one of Pratchett's finest novels to date.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Monstrous-Regiment-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0385603401 (1135 words)

	Amazon.de: Monstrous Regiment. A Discworld Novel.: English Books: Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Monstrous Regiment in question is made up of a vampire, a troll, Igor, a collection of misfits and a young woman who shoves a pair of socks down her pants to join the army.
		You have Monstrous Regiment, the characteristically charming novel by Terry Pratchett.
		I found Monstrous Regiment hard to get in at first, because I got all the names and nicknames mixed up and I wasn't familiar with military vocabulary, let alone military slang.
	amazon.de /Monstrous-Regiment-Discworld-Novel-Pratchett/dp/0552149411 (1972 words)

	Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett - read excerpt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Apart from the letter and the medal, all the man left behind was a tin mug and, on the floor, a stain which wouldn't scrub out.
		The foregoing is excerpted from Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett.
		His first novel was published when he was 20, and he continued to write in his spare time whilst working as a journalist for a local newspaper.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/monstrousregiment.htm (2240 words)

	Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett \| PopMatters Book Review
		Monstrous Regiment is Terry Pratchett's 29th novel set in Discworld, a world just enough like ours to be uncomfortable.
		If you've never read a Discworld novel before, this one is as good a place to start as any, since it presents a new cast of characters and doesn't require a Discworld primer before you dive in.
		I thought at first that perhaps the issue of women in the military was passé -- surely the idea that one gender is inherently better at certain tasks than the other is an old and tired one, one we've all moved past.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/m/monstrous-regiment.shtml (1219 words)

	Terry Pratchett Monstrous Regiment Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Terry Pratchett has been busily building that world for more than twenty years, and his latest novel of Discworld, 'Monstrous Regiment' will enable all of us to have good laugh and maybe even experience a coherent thought or two without frothing at the mouth, or having to listen to someone else do so.
		His latest novel begins as the tiny and rather mad country of Borogravia runs out of steam -- and able-bodied young men -- to fight its latest war.
		Coming through the novel the first time round, readers have too much fun enjoying the humor and the pointy sticks underneath to be bothered with all that skillful writing stuff.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/pratchett-monstrous.htm (1007 words)

	Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
		If ever there was a Discworld novel to introduce new readers to Pratchettâs brilliance, this is it.
		"Monstrous Regiment is most often spirited and shambolic, but it has some serious heft.
		He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie.
	www.lovereading.co.uk /book/7 (321 words)

	The Fence [Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett]
		By my count this is the 28th Discworld novel, although if you include the "Younger Readers'" discworld books then you get 30.
		Monstrous Regiment is the story of Polly, a girl who dressed up as a boy in order to join the army, find and bring home her brother.
		As is usual with books, the back of my copy has quotes on how great Monstrous Regiment is. Among them is one from the Daily Express comparing it to Evelyn Waugh's Officers and Gentlemen, and Jonathon Swift.
	www.freewebs.com /thefence/bmonstrous.htm (496 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
		His current title First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women is shortlisted for the Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Awards.
		The title, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, is borrowed from a 16th century work against having women in positions of authority, by the Scottish religious leader John Knox (1513-1572).
		The current novel is the fictional autobiography of one Andrew Halfnight, who has written his memoirs as a form of psychological therapy.
	www.sfsite.com /07a/1st36.htm (1040 words)

	Krisostomus -- Monstrous Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was a sudden strange fancy, and now Polly Perks, in her brother's clothes and her hair cut off, has joined up to fight for her country.
		Pratchett being Pratchett, of course, this is no ordinary war, but it does allow him to reflect upon the actual conduct and nature of war through his distorting lens of fantasy, satire and irreverent humour, in a way which is almost topical.
		They made war, in fact, because the sun came up." The "Monstrous" regiment in question is a band of Borogravian recruits marching off to the front line, unaware that the war has pretty much already been lost.
	www.kriso.ee /cgi-bin/shop/183259061267098.html (525 words)

	Monstrous Regiment - www.smh.com.au
		For those who haven't discovered the addictive, absurdist joys of Discworld, the premise of this alternative world is that it's a flat disc (reposing on the back of a turtle) and it runs by magic rather than "rules", as in the case of Roundworld (our own world).
		Monstrous Regiment is focused on one in particular - the poor, belligerent little country of Borogravia, which is perpetually at war with its neighbours.
		Monstrous Regiment is much more than a comment on the absurdities of war or the aggressive proclivities of men (neither of which, to this reader, is particularly interesting).
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/07/1068013375934.html?from=storyrhs (487 words)

	Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett - A Large Print Reviews' Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Monstrous Regiment is one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, and it is full of all the quirks and creatures that have become the hallmarks of the Discworld series.
		Her regiment is full of raw recruits, and they are the dregs of society - a fact that is not their fault.
		Monstrous Regiment can be purchased directly from Ulverscroft, the parent company of F. Thorpe - Charnwood.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /regiment.html (603 words)

	Bookslut \| Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
		These novels follow a predictable and expected pattern: crime occurs, detective uses their trademark insight, brute strength or septuagenarian guile to wade through the lies, evasions, bullets or patrician secrecy that stands between them and the truth.
		In Monstrous Regiment, this means turning his satirist’s sensibility on sexism, religion, politics, journalism and of course the military life, a life in which the reality on the ground bears very little resemblance to the patriotism and nationalism espoused by those prosecuting the war.
		One consequence of the reality of Monstrous Regiment is that Pratchett’s stable of familiar characters is largely marginalized.
	www.bookslut.com /fiction/2003_11_000953.php (747 words)

	A Monstrous Regiment of Women :: heat death of the universe
		A Monstrous Regiment of Women :: heat death of the universe
		A Monstrous Regiment of Women is the second in Laurie R. King's series of novels about an elderly Sherlock Holmes and his young lover and apprentice Mary Russell.
		As with the first novel in the series, I did not enjoy this one as much as Katie, but it was a good read nonetheless.
	www.aphids.com /stan/blog/2006/05/a_monstrous_reg.html (75 words)

	BWS Review - "Monstrous Regiment" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This, the 28th (or 29th, depending) novel of Discworld is an abomination unto Nuggan.
		I was reading another review of Monstrous Regiment wherein they determined that the book was well written but not very subtle.
		Monstrous Regiment, like Night Watch is not a knee slapper.
	bewilderingstories.com /issue82/books.html (477 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
		A novel that explores the inanity of war, the ins and outs of sexual politics, and why often the best man for the job is a woman, Monstrous Regiment is vintage Pratchett in top form.
		Polly and her fellow comrades are forced to disguise themselves as boys because of the law forbidding female participation in the armed services.
		Polly feels that her regiment ends up being viewed as mascots instead of true soldiers, and is angered by this.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/monstrous_regiment1.asp (307 words)

	Terry Pratchett Message Board: Monstrous Regiment Discussion Spoilers
		Borogravia, the scene of the novel is a small country, surrounded by other small states with whom they are constantly at war.
		Monstrous Regiment is an allusion to the blistering sermon of that title by John Knox, the Calvinist/Scottish minister who thundered out against women having the audacity to think they might rule or be anything except subservient to their natural, god-given superiors-men.
		Unlike Jingo, where Pratchett laughs at the pretensions and pomposity of those who would make war, in Monstrous Regiment he paints a detailed, intentionally depressing and dreary picture of what war does to a people and to their country.
	www.terrypratchettbooks.com /ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=004437 (1689 words)

	Monstrous regiment : a novel of discworl… by Terry Pratchett \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Monstrous regiment : a novel of discworl… by Terry Pratchett
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	www.librarything.com /catalog.php?book=231848 (195 words)

	Aphelion Review # 32 --Monstrous Regiment-- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Monstrous Regiment" is a wonderful addition to the Discworld series.
		Focusing on a small, stubborn, militaristic rural country- and it's foes -and populated with living, breathing characters drawn from the villages and towns of the country, the story delights the reader at every turn.
		This novel takes the scene of the action into a new area of the Discworld.
	www.aphelion-webzine.com /features/review32.htm (522 words)

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