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A review by kavyarhymes
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
5.0
Soul Music is the first Discworld novel I ever read, given to me by roommate in college, first year. It was your-eyes-meet-across-the-room Love.
After hearing of Sir Terry Pratchett's passing, I decided to reread this.
Music with Rocks in has hit Ankh Morpok, and Terry Pratchett deals with this in glorious satire. The amount of puns in this book is amazing. It as also my first time meeting everyone's favourite Anthropomorphic Personification, and his granddaughter. The effect of Music with Rocks in on Wizards, who tend to be susceptible to this sort of Phenomenon, was especially wonderful.The 'theme' in this Discworld Novel is subtler than most, and the book is better enjoyed if you view it as a comedy for most of the part. Besides, no one can write about music and actually make it Rock like Sir Terry can.
Here there be Spoilers
Susan seemed a lot more insufferable to me this time around then my first time reading this. Then I remembered that she's only sixteen in this, and we're all insufferable in one way or another at that age. Also perhaps I didn't notice it the first time because I was only a little bit older than her at that time.
For most of the book, I thought Terry Pratchett didn't have a hidden lesson for us this time. Maybe it was just a book about dealing with being the granddaughter of Death, and Rock Music. But slowly, I understood what death's journey to forget meant, and it felt horribly appropriate, considering I'd chosen to read this after finding out that Sir Terry died.
Death is trying to forget caring for humans, because then he might start thinking like Susan, that things could be changed. Its sad really. He cannot forget, and he must do what he must, bitter as it is. He knows about Duty. I think this is how he must have felt about Terry Pratchett's death as well.
"I've got to ask,Susan thought. I've got to say it. Or I'm not human.
'I could go back and save them..?' Only the faintest tremor suggested that the statement was a question.
SAVE? FOR WHAT? A LIFE THAT HAS RUN OUT? SOME THINGS END. I KNOW THIS. SOMETIMES I HAVE THOUGHT OTHERWISE. BUT.....WITHOUT DUTY, WHAT AM I? THERE HAS TO BE A LAW."
You could choose immortality, or you could choose humanity.
You had to do it for yourself.
After hearing of Sir Terry Pratchett's passing, I decided to reread this.
Music with Rocks in has hit Ankh Morpok, and Terry Pratchett deals with this in glorious satire. The amount of puns in this book is amazing. It as also my first time meeting everyone's favourite Anthropomorphic Personification, and his granddaughter. The effect of Music with Rocks in on Wizards, who tend to be susceptible to this sort of Phenomenon, was especially wonderful.The 'theme' in this Discworld Novel is subtler than most, and the book is better enjoyed if you view it as a comedy for most of the part. Besides, no one can write about music and actually make it Rock like Sir Terry can.
Here there be Spoilers
Susan seemed a lot more insufferable to me this time around then my first time reading this. Then I remembered that she's only sixteen in this, and we're all insufferable in one way or another at that age. Also perhaps I didn't notice it the first time because I was only a little bit older than her at that time.
For most of the book, I thought Terry Pratchett didn't have a hidden lesson for us this time. Maybe it was just a book about dealing with being the granddaughter of Death, and Rock Music. But slowly, I understood what death's journey to forget meant, and it felt horribly appropriate, considering I'd chosen to read this after finding out that Sir Terry died.
Death is trying to forget caring for humans, because then he might start thinking like Susan, that things could be changed. Its sad really. He cannot forget, and he must do what he must, bitter as it is. He knows about Duty. I think this is how he must have felt about Terry Pratchett's death as well.
"I've got to ask,Susan thought. I've got to say it. Or I'm not human.
'I could go back and save them..?' Only the faintest tremor suggested that the statement was a question.
SAVE? FOR WHAT? A LIFE THAT HAS RUN OUT? SOME THINGS END. I KNOW THIS. SOMETIMES I HAVE THOUGHT OTHERWISE. BUT.....WITHOUT DUTY, WHAT AM I? THERE HAS TO BE A LAW."
You could choose immortality, or you could choose humanity.
You had to do it for yourself.