Book Review: No Time for Sergeants

A member of my extended family felt like giving away a lot of books. I picked this one off the shelf because it had a familiar title. Indeed, it became a movie I might have watched if I didn’t read the Mac Hyman book first. What really sold me was the blurb asserting that the critic laughed till he cried. It occurred to me that 1950s hilarity might not fly today, but it was worth a shot.

I still don’t know where the title came from. At no point does any character say it, nor does it seem to fit anyone’s attitude. But the story does have a military focus.

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Since that reading was basically devoid of females, I’ve move on to Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Here’s a book whose movie I did see, but I heard the two versions don’t have much in common.