Soul Music

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Call Number: Fantasy / Pratchett, Terry, Adult Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Pratchett, Terry
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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my beloved diskworld submitted by ferdoble on August 11, 2011, 3:56pm To describe Terry Pratchett’s books is a difficult thing to do. The disc world series is in a word fantastic. Terry Pratchett, would seem to use the disk world, to take any theme, or know story and then twist it in his own very humorous way. These are not always laugh out loud funny (sometimes they are), bur rather the sort of funny that just sort of lifts your spirits a little bit.

I will say that in some cases there isn’t always a really strong story, sometimes its just his characters moving through one of those twisted themes. I like them all, you may want to start with the Most Von Lipwig story line (“Going Postal” and then “making money”) as at least the first one has a really great story line.

I love to pepper my reading queue with these books to keep all those books that take themselves seriously fresh and interesting.

I recommend reading them ALL.

OR listening to them. The two main narrators of Terry Pratchett’s books are Stephen Briggs & Nigel Planer and they take Terry Pratchett’s phenomenal writing to a whole new level.

Music with rocks in! submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 16, 2012, 1:32pm This story follows a young harper who leaves his homeland (that looks remarkably like Wales) to travel to the big city in hopes of making a living as a musician. He discovers this is far harder than he anticipates, especially when someone breaks his harp, so he gets together with a troll and a dwarf (also musicians). Their fortunes take a turn for the better when they accidentally buy a magic guitar and invent Music with Rocks In (the name of their band and the type of music they play). They become world famous and their story parallels while also mocking the Beatles and the day the music died. Meanwhile, Death's granddaughter must learn to cope with the inevitability of the death of her parents.
For those who appreciate pop music and culture, this is an especially fun book. I recommend reading "Mort" and "Reaper Man" first to get to know some of the characters and their background, and to get a feel for the Discworld and Ankh-Morpork in general. Once you have read "Soul Music" watch the animated movie for further entertainment.
I highly recommend all of Sir Terry Pratchett's novels. British audiences consistently give him high marks as one of their favorite authors, which may be why he has published 39 Discworld novels.