Soul Music - Terry Pratchett > Reviews

Advantages: Funny Gota magical guitar and DEATH,,of rats
Disadvantages: could have gone further

...is satire rock and roll, Soul Music. Imp y Celyn is a young harp bard who travels to Ankh-Morpork where he hopes to find some sort of work. Once there, he meets up with an odd pair of fellow musicians, Glod the dwarf and Lias the troll. The three of them end up almost dragged by destiny and magic into a band when Imp discovers a strange magical guitar in a magical moving shop. The guitar seems almost to play itself, and it also seems to be taking ... Read review

Advantages: Great story
Disadvantages: None musicians may not get all the jokes

Soul Music is a book that not all Pratchett fans will like, you have to be quite heavily into music (Preferably a musician) to get most of the jokes. Luckily I am so I found this book fairly amusing. It’s not Pratchett’s best work but it’s far from his worst. Like most of Pratchett’s books, it’s full of amusing little touches, such as the most popular music style in the book “Music with Rocks in it”. A lot of the regular characters don’t play a huge ... Read review

Advantages: Great fun spotting the music references, some great characters
Disadvantages: none

...to the excellent Moving Pictures, Soul Music tells what happens when Rock and Roll (or Music with Rocks In) arrives on the Discworld. The main character is Buddy (real name Imp y Cylen meaning Bud of the Holly), a druid with a quiff and rather good guitar bought from a strange shop. Buddy wants to make music and soon teams up with Glod Glodsson (a dwarf) and Cliff (a troll) and forms a band. With management from Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler they cannot ... Read review

Advantages: It's very funny
Disadvantages: Lacks something

I love Terry Pratchett's stuff, yet I have to say that 'Soul Music' is certainly not my favourite Discworld Novel. The idea behind the book is brilliant, the characters are good, the resolution is fine, yet there's something wich does not quite work, something which I really cannot put my finger on. The book begins with the formation of the 'Band With Rocks In', as the elf like Imp y Celyn (Buddy of the Holly), Glod and a troll who eventually ... Read review

Advantages: Amazing characters - he creates vivid images
Disadvantages: None

Terry Pratchett is my favourite author – his Discworld novels are amazing – he creates such a vivid world – that you can navigate your way through it, when reading the book. What makes the books are the characters, they are so realistic – and they are all real types of people. TP observes amazing miniscule parts of human nature – and then enters them into his books – with hilarious consequences. The best character is death, who always speaks ... Read review

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This has to be by far the best terry pratchett novel I have ever read, god I love the film version, And just like Terry, I will say this…. I DON’T CARE HOW YOU DO IT JUST GET ME THE ALBUM FOR THIS TV SHOW. The music is by far the definitive instrument in the show grip over you, allowing you to recognise certain styles of music on here, but never quite getting the feel that they totally ripped off a classic tune. All of the characters in themselves ... Read review

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This has to be by far the best terry pratchett tv show I have ever seen, god I love this film version, And just like Terry in the documentary at the start of the box set, I will say this…. I DON’T CARE HOW YOU DO IT JUST GET ME THE ALBUM FOR THIS TV SHOW. The music is by far the definitive instrument in the show grip over you, allowing you to recognise certain styles of music on here, but never quite getting the feel that they totally ripped off a ... Read review