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The Music that actually leaped from the book and in to my head.
When Buddy decides to enter Ankh-Morpork and become a musicion he meets Clif and Glodd. Other musicions. Buddy finds a guitar with strange music and an even stranger power. Soon the trio are playing Music with Rocks In. Later all of Ankh-Morpork is in a music franchise. <
> In another place, Susan a girl of reason finds out that she is the grandoughter of Death. She realizes that she must take over the family business because Death wants to forget the future by, drinking, going into a pitt, and joining a bunch of beggars. <
> A story full of music with rocks in, Bone Motorcycles, musical guitars, a lot of money and neverending spirits. <
> I loved this book so much. It was hillariouse and was just plane great. The big thing about this book was that when ever Terry Pratchett would dscribe the music with rocks in, I would go into a trance. So if you want to relax with a book that is also funny Soul Music is your book. <
> I took one star away because the book sometimes dragged on.

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Loved This One Too
I could write an over view of the plot, though others have so I won't but I will comment on the fact that the reviewers are not getting the real story. They all say Death, as he does in Mort, has another mid-life crisis but what they fail to read and understand is that Death is GREIVING, sp?, The book opens with the death of Mort and Ysabell, Ysabell being Death's adopted daughter from the book Mort, and Mort being her hubby. He wants to forget because he is very upset at their dying. DUH!! The whole book is about greif, learning to cope, growing up, and trying to understand the question we all ask WHY. Much more meat than any Potter novel. Yes, puns and jokes too but not stupidity, we are talking real wit. The strength of Pratchett is in his story-telling he is not writing '101 Best Discworld Jokes' this is a story about real people in a slightly crazy world the humor helps you to explore these rather upsetting subjects that Pratchett talks about in his novels. This book is about that subject which the USA, and others, have trouble with as if science will someday end the job of the Reaper for good. That subject of course is death, dying not the Grim Reaper. I do feel that Pratchett could have put more emphasis on the subject 'how would the Grim Reaper greive?' And I am upset that no scenes of Death remembering Ysabell are in the book. All in all a great read. Thank You, Barbara :-)) <
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One out of three ain't bad . . .
The Discworld grows on you. After reading a dozen or so of Pratchett's marvelous stories about Life, the Universe, and Everything (so to speak), you've gotten to understand Unseen University, and the Librarian, and why you can walk across the Ankh River, and the Patrician's point of view (Sergeant Colon's as well), and the necessity of Death, and why the Mended Drum never closes. More than that, events in the author's world tell you a great deal about our own. This time around, it's the importance of Music in the scheme of things. The universe didn't begin with a Big Bang after all, it began with The Chord, and the Music continues to weave its way through everything. Specifically, thanks to the ancient guitar Imp (a/k/a "Buddy") acquires (or that acquires him), it's Music With Rocks In. And Pratchett, while having some serious points to make, also has a wonderful time playing riffs on the history of rock `n' roll and its devotees ("a felonious monk," indeed . . .). Susan, the sixteen-year-old granddaughter of Death, is also a major player, having had to take over the family business while its proper practitioner is off on another of his vague investigations into humanity. Don't worry about the details of the plot. Just sit back, read, enjoy the music, and try not to laugh too loud.