Thank-you for the kind welcome.

I don't know what it was about Thud, but I just couldn't get into it as easily. I wouldn't say I didn't like it, it is Terry Pratchett after all, but I didn't like it as much. Maybe it was something to do with the way that Vimes has changed, I liked his ...um, well Vime-ishness I suppose, but his diplomatic position seems to supress this. In Thud! he just seemed angry to me... (although I do recognise that this was part of the plot)
It was relevant, it just seemed a little 2-dimensional to me.

But I loved Monsterous Regiment! I thought it was really well done as a critique of feminism as well as of war in general. (Each woman is isolated and unaware of the others, when they could be working together to be there in their own right) I liked the freshness of the new characters as well.
*strokes cover of "Monsterous Regiment" protectively*