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by Terry Pratchett (Author) "Where to finish? ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi Books; New edition edition (11 May 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0552140295
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552140294
  • Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 10.6 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,358 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Yes. There's a Death in the family. It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when 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 called Music With Rocks In. It's got a beat and you can dance to it, but...It's alive. And it won't fade away.

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Discworld is about to rock...

Deputising for DEATH was never going to be easy, not least when he has gone walkabout in search of the Meaning of Life - without even leaving a forwarding address. But for his granddaughter, Susan, it becomes even more difficult when she breaks one of the cardinal rules of the family business - don't get involved!

All around the Disc, crowds are shouting for Buddy Celyn and The Band With Rocks In. They are in the grip of a new and dangerous music and Buddy is under its thumb. It's alive, it changes people - and it won't fade away.

Grain by grain, Buddy's time is running out and Susan has to save him - it's not going to be easy when she looks more like the Tooth Fairy than the Grim Reaper...

Soul Music: The Illustrated Screenplay is the perfect accompaniment to the acclaimed Channel Four/Cosgrove Hall series of Terry Pratchett's bestselling novel and what's more it's got lots of pictures in (154 to be precise). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Rock'n'roll comes to Discworld, 7 Jun 2000
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It had to happen some time. We'd already talked about movies (Moving Pictures) and gods (Small Gods), so it only could be matter of time before Pratchett dealt with that other passtime, music. And he does it very well too. But I thought this book didn't actually concentrate on music that much and spent more time dealing with Death's disappearance. The introduction of Susan, Death's grand-daughter, by adoption, is a brilliant idea, and having her take over the business is a genius touch. The bits which are about music are well written and funny, but it all draws itself to a rather disappointing end. Not one of his best, but still very good nonethless. (P.S., for all those who have read it, did you realise that Llamedos, where the lead singer comes from, is not a Welsh name, but sod-em-all written backwards?)
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Discworld greats, 25 Feb 2005
By Kurt A. Johnson (Marseilles, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This is the sixteenth book in Terry Pratchett's series on the Discworld - a flat world, supported on the backs of four massive elephants riding on the back of a planet-sized turtle. Anything hilarious can happen here, and eventually does.

In this book, Death (capital "D", he's the man, or rather the anthropomorphic personification) disappears, and his granddaughter (that's another story) is forced to pick up the family business. But, there's something very strange going on here. A young man who was supposed to die has been strangely saved by music, and the music now owns him. It has all happened before, somewhere else, but now it has come to the Discworld - sex and drugs and Music With Rocks In!

This is one of Terry Pratchett's masterpieces, and that is really saying something. I like all of the Discworld books, but several are special, like this one. This is a great book, laugh-out-loud funny with lots of great references to rock music and movies. Beyond that, though, the story is very entertaining, and will keep you sitting up at night turning pages (like it did to me).

This is one of the Discworld greats, a book that I highly recommend to all fans of great fantasy literature!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book Ever, 17 Jul 2002
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This review is from: Soul Music : Unseen Library Edition 1/4 Leather Bound The Sixteenth Discworld novel (Hardcover)
This is my favourite book. I thought that it was going to be really boring when I first saw the cover, because it had Death on a Motorbike! However, you can never judge a book by its cover as they say...The teaming of a dwarf and a troll in a rock band is inspired and some of Pratchett's best lines live here. If you like Pratchett you will love this.
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