Soul Music (Revised) | 
pickI went through another Terry Pratchett audiobook. I‘ve read all the novels 10 years ago, so it‘s very interesting to listen to them 10 years later.
The thought of music coming alive is fascinating. And of course there‘s Susan‘s deadpan humor. 🪦🪦🪦
I used to tour and have seen my fair share of backstages. This passage in soul music by Terry Pratchett is hands down the best description of a dressing room I have ever seen.
so-soOh, shucks. It's a 'meh' for me. Didn't quite gel. Loved one moment between Death and his granddaughter. Blatant lessons around music industry felt a little too real considering all that's come to light in recent years. Death's multi-book attempts to get closer to the humanity he's always near, and never part of just make me sad, and the natural cycle of the universe, i.e. things born, die feels pretty hammered in at this point. 🤷🏼♂️
There's something so endlessly darkly charming about the grimy, deadly corners of Ankh-Morpork.
I ♥️ Discworld.
Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. Everything, all together, streaming out in one huge rush that contained within itself, like reverse fossils, everything that it was going to be. And, zigzagging through the expanding cloud, alive, that first wild live music. This had shape. It had spin. It had rhythm. It had a beat, and you could dance to it. Everything did.” #musical #QuotsyJul21
checked in to a log cabin for a staycation!
pickDeath must deal with grief and his granddaughter Susan is on the job in this Discworld novel that features a lot of funny music references. Imp vows to become the world‘s most famous musician, but the gods were listening and that dream is going to have some (guitar) strings attached. More fun from Pratchett! https://cannonballread.com/2021/01/soul-music-a-novel-of-discworld-elcicco/
#SeptemberSenses @Eggs
#MusicToMyEars
I just realized that I reversed yesterday and today's prompts. Oh well... 🤷♀️
so-soBook 38
This is another one that just misses for me. It's fine? Nothing spectacular. I love the constant puns and since I lived for a while in the town where Buddy Holly played his last concert and then died in a plane crash, I appreciated that whole riff at the end.
Really there's nothing I can point to that I specifically don't like. I just feel very "Meh" about it as a whole.
pickHey, listen, I‘m not going to complain about a book that gives me Death himself riding a motorcycle while wearing a leather jacket that says “Born to Rune”, but...
it kind of seemed like Discworld 16 was more a collection of fun ideas that Sir Terry had about rock n‘ roll on the Discworld, as opposed to an actual cohesive narrative.
Bud y Holly (get it?) was a nothing protagonist by design, but it was fun to meet Susan, Death‘s granddaughter.
pickOne of my favourite Pratchetts! ❤️🎵 So much fun, unforgettable characters and a story I couldn't get enough of. Sadly, at some point the book ended... 😧
so-soThis feels like a take 2 of Moving Pictures and I like it less. Susan and Buddy (and their relationship) never clicked for me. Some great Death stuff in the last 30 pages or so, but a lot of wheel spinning the rest of the time. Wizards liking rock, though? That's fun!
#OokBOokClub
so-soFor an anthropomorphic personification, Death sure gets the blues and falls into an existential crisis fairly regularly. He needs to stop pulling these disappearing acts or untimely vacations, but then again he pulls them at just the right time so certain events can transpire... so meant to be and inevitable I guess.
This trope is wearing a bit thin for me, so not a favorite, but I did enjoy the Rock n‘ Roll puns, jokes, & tangential etcs
Time for some bad logic!
1) Wizards are like canaries in a coal mine for interdimensional weirdness
2) CMOT Dibbler gets swept up in every last interdimensional trend, therefore
3) Despite all odds, Throat missed his true calling as a wizard
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I want to say something nice! I quite liked the trip to see Mort-era Death, and get a sense of how we got from that sort of scarier Death to the one we have (he's always been a mess, really). I also really like the running bit that Glod is ~terrible~ at haggling.
#OokBOokClub
This is going......
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slow
(I don't love Susan)
#OokBOokClub
This might be exactly how our world ended up the surreal mess it currently is! 🤔
#PratchettPosse
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pickWelcome to the #OokBOokClub open discussion for #SoulMusic! Feel free to discuss anything! Don't forget to tag each other in the comments so your friends can see your reply. Have fun!
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pickJudging just by the amount of great puns in this one, it‘s a definite must read! I laughed out loud quite a few times. 😂 #AtoZLitsy (Letter S) #OokBOokClub #EpicBuddyRead
As is almost always the case with Litsy hashtags I‘m late to the game. So here is my first #WeeklyForecast post. I‘ve got a couple of books to finish up and a new #bookspin book to start. And, as always, a couple of chunksters in progress.
@Cinfhen
“The #Library didn‘t only contain magical books...which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren‘t also dangerous, just because reading them didn‘t make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader‘s brain.”
I‘ll be reading a lot of these this year as part of the #OokBOokClub. You can never read too much Pratchett!
so-soRead this as a part of #OokBOOkClub The story is about a musician, Imp Y Celyn(Buddy) and his band, and death‘s granddaughter, Susan who is taking over the responsibilities as her grandfather is taking a break. The story is hailstorms in certain sections and Death is awesome. Enjoyed the machinations if the band‘s manger, Dibbler, and the wizards of the Unseen University. Lot of action, not much description.
MEA CULPA! I think I forgot to send you a reminder for this book last month.
#OokBOokClub-ers, our Discworld adventure continues TODAY with #SoulMusic!
Looking forward to our discussion next month!
Happy reading!
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“It was sad #music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.” #QuotsyJune19
pickMy first Terry Pratchett and definitely not the last! A funny and absurd satire of the music industry and mythologizing of celebrity and a sweet parable on Death and love.
pickI loved this Discworld novel about Music with Rocks In.
A mystical guitar bought in an alley shop takes three unsuspecting musicians on a crazy ride, as they invent the Disc‘s version of rock music.
Death and his granddaughter Susan feature in this one, as well as Ridcully and the wizards, Dibbler, and many new characters. Super fun!
Lying in my bed feeling sick and and listening to Soul Music and (even though I've read it before) I've only JUST realised the joke behind everyone constantly asking Imp if he's elvish! 🤣🤣🤣
Moved into our new place...what a pain in the ass...but we have the most important room organized!
“This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top #button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.” #QuotsyNov18
Terry Pratchett work a classic #jazz pun (even if Thelonius Monk actually played the piano) #quotsynov18 @TK-421
