Soul Music

, #16

Hardcover, 288 pages

Published Oct. 20, 1999 by Gollancz.

ISBN:
978-0-575-06689-2
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OCLC Number:
40682809

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4 stars (111 reviews)

'This is a story about sex and drugs and Music With Rocks In. Well… …one out of three ain’t bad.' Being sixteen is always difficult, even more so when there’s a Death in the family. After all, it's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe. Especially if he decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover himself in the process, so that you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld. It's lawless. It changes people. It's got a beat and you can dance to it.

It's called Music With Rocks In. And it won't fade away.

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reviewed Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #16)

5 stars if you are 50-80s music fan

5 stars

The book is about music. About its perception, nature and evolution. Death here is secondary.

Tremendous amount of wit and fun, but also absolutely twisting, emotional and powerful scene that loops back to the beginnings, showing that Pratchett was writing with his heads up, to quote Don Cherry.

reviewed Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #16)

Review of 'Soul Music' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Strong, but not 5 stars. Susan is a fun addition to the Death line up, although I would have liked a more expanded Death role - the "Death goes on a vacation" plot still works, but works best when Death can shine (see Reaper Man). The music plot was a little too similar to Moving Pictures, which I thought was one of the weaker books so far.

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Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • Science fiction