Only one pair of socks to go

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

Another good book by Pratchett. Strong writing with a new setting and new characters. I did worry at first when Vimes and de Worde made an appearance, as I felt he was including them just to put something familiar in for regular readers, but thankfully they're used sparingly. In my honest opinion they probably don't need to be there at all, but there you go.

The book deals with war and masculinity (the pointlessness of one, and the occassional stupidity of the other). It's the book in which Pratchett best gets into the feminine mind-set, and his wit is mixed with quality writing and story telling in the usual fashion.

There are a couple of problems, though. The running joke about socks is perhaps over-used (the word socks appears on about every page), and towards the end you can spot the twists coming a mile off (mainly because the twists are in fact all the same twist).