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Other children got 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 the 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13125 in Books
• Published on: 1995-05-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Synopsis
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.

From the Back Cover
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.

I'ts 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.

THE SIXTEENTH HILARIOUS BESTSELLER IN THE DISCWORLD SERIES

Tony Robinson, successful writer, actor and documentary-maker. Star of radio, TV and theatre. Well-known for the popular TV series Time Team and his roles as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Maid Marion and Her Merry Men and Baldrick in Blackadder.

Abridged, running time approximately 3 hours

About the Author
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie.

Customer Reviews

Your Grandfather is ... Death!
Even if you haven't read much of the Discworld series, this book will lead you into the the bizarre working of on of our more known fears, Death trying to be human. This story follows the journies of Susan Sto Helit, The astranged granddaughter of death, Imp y Celin (pro-nounced Imppy kelin) and his band possessed by a magic guitar, and finally Deaths journey to find out "how do humans forget"

A bizarre and hillarious book which is fun for established and new discworld lovers. Keep and eye on which story you're following though, the changes come as quick as an episode of Eastenders.

GENTLEMEN? TAKE IT FROM THE TOP?
Admittedly I had to read this book a few times over to pick up the plot, but I'm glad I did as it really appealed to me. It could be considered a sequel to Mort, as it introduces the offspring of Mort and Death's daughter Ysabell - the sensible, self-possessed and (in my view) appealingly unlovable Susan, who excels in subjects such as maths and Logic at the Quirm College For Young Ladies - and has no idea about her grandfather, although it should be noted that she has a talent for making herself invisible, excels in sports that involve swinging a stick (it took me ages to work that one out) and has a hairstyle with a life of its own (this should be impossible, since Ysabell was adopted, but what would be the point otherwise?)
Meanwhile, musician Imp Y Celyn has found his way into Ankh-Morpork and grouped up with a dwarf and a troll, also musicians. they form a band, and suddenly a new genre of music enters the Disc - calllled (that was a typing error, but is actually quite apt) Music With Rocks In. And the music has taken over Imp (now known as Buddy) and is captivating people throughout - including the wizards of Unseen University - particularly the Dean, who takes to wearing a robe bearing the legend BORN TO RUNE, painting his bedroom black, etc.
Meanwhile again, Death has disappeared, so Susan is suddenly dragged from her school by a talking raven, the Death Of Rats and Binky, Death's horse.
She would have been quite good at it, had she not had a huge sense of justice and an inclination to try and get things into some kind of working order. Oh, and she's having some doubts about the name Susan, too.
But now she's got involved in the Music With Rocks In affair, which is threatening fateful consequences . . .
When I couldn't be bothered to read the whole book i had a habit of just reading the Susan parts with a few choice other parts - but I actually really liked the rest as well. i would recommend this book to Discworld fans - but logically, any Discworld book can be recommended to Discworld fans.
Featuring some quite inspired music puns.

One, two, one, two, many, lots...
Soul Music is (along with Hogfather) my favourite Discworld novel. I first read it at the age of twelve, and finally, five years later, someone got it through their heads to get it for me for Christmas.

The book revolves around a young man called Imp y Celyn (who's name translates roughly to "bud of the holly"), who journeys to Anhk-Morpork in a bid to become the greatest musician in the world. In the city, he meets a troll named Lias (who is incapable of counting to four) and a dwarf named Glod Glodsson (who's only in it for the money), and together, they form The Band With Rocks In. Thier style of music, dubbed "Music With Rocks In", takes the Discworld by storm, causing it's inhabitants to become obsessed with songs such as "Don't Step On My New Blue Boots" and "Good Gracious Miss Polly". Even the wizards in the Unseen University have been tranformed by it, with the Dean painting his bedroom black and weaing a studded leather robe that says "BORN TO RUNE".
Many aspiring Music With Rocks In bands spring up in The Band With Rocks In's wake, such as "We're Certainly Dwarfs" and a band that changes it's name so much they just end up being known as "Ande Supporting Bandes".
Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler also appears, eager to exploit the new fad to make himself a quick fortune.

Only thing is, Music With Rocks In is alive. And it's the only thing stopping Imp from meeting an early death.

Meanwhile, Death has joined the Klatchian Foriegn Legion in a bid to forget, and it's fallen to his granddaughter, Susan Sto-Helit, to take on the Duty. And she's more interested in saving Imp from his "Live fast, die young" destiny, which causes a lot of trouble for Albert and the Death of Rats.

All in all, Soul Music is a hilarious book and one of the best in the Discworld series, with many puns on well known aspects of music.