There were parts of this that made me want to rate it higher than three stars. Namely, Rincewind trying to explain to the child revolutionaries just how revolutions tended to end for people like them. And Twoflower standing up to Hong, and Twoflower's daughter-that-took-after-her-mother. But these tended to be overwhelmed by a lot of other stuff.

Don't get me wrong: that other stuff was funny. I enjoyed reading it. But honestly, I don't care that much for Rincewind or Cohen or the rest. I don't think it's much of a coincidence that the parts where I liked Rincewind best he sounded distinctly like Sam Vimes going on about bad kings and the power of the nobles. And the book as a whole felt just a little bloated to me - like it could have been focused a little more on the revolutionary meat and less on everything else. But then that's Rincewind for you: constantly distracted, and constantly distracting.