Madeline's Reviews > Soul Music

This is one of the Discworld installments where you can tell that Sir Terry sat down at his computer and said, "Let's have some fun with it!"

He's getting a little loose with this one, in other words, and having fun with some good old Pratchett-style parody. Considering that this is a Death installment, and so far those have proved to be the Discworld books most likely to wreck me, it's kind of a relief that this one is so light. Plus, this functions as a kind-of sequel to Mort, and we get to meet Death's granddaughter! Her name is Susan.

Plus, all the music industry in-jokes are worth the price of admission alone, even if Pratchett's view on rock music does veer pretty hard into Get Off My Lawn territory. How can you say no to a book that features a band called We're Certainly Dwarfs?






(aka They Might Be Giants. Shut up, Pratchett's a genius.)