Discworld - Music to Die For

So back in college, I read Christopher Stasheff's Warlock series.  There was one book called the Warlock Rock and it was full of music puns.  They weren't subtle, and some of it seemed quite forced.

Terry Pratchett's Soul Music, while it has some music puns, is much more entertaining and quite a bit more subtle.  Some of my favorite parts are the Discworld inversions of Earth bands.

Dwarves with Altitude
We're Certainly Dwarves
The Whom
&U

But parallel to the story of the rise of Music with Rocks In, is the introduction of Susan Sto Helit, daughter of Mort and Ysabell, and granddaughter of Death.  It's about how a seveteen-year-old girl deals with learning she has the powers of Death, while at the same time handling her crush on a boy in a band.

There's also the introduction of what actually goes on inside the High Energy Magic building at Unseen University.  In picturing the scattering of experiments and take-away food boxes, I can just picture the beginnings of HEX, the Discworld's version of a computer.  But that's okay, because he/it will be there and in use for the next book Interesting Times.

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Mentioned in this book:

"A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob On the End"

‘The World is Your Mollusk”

Albert / Alberto Malich

Ankh-Morpork

Arnold Sideways

Big Mad Drongo / Adrian Turnipseed

Binky

Blind Io

Bloody Stupid Johnson / UU Organ

Cabbages

Candle Dribbler

Casanunda

Catalog for Magic Shops

Chalky the Troll

Chrysoprase the Troll

Coffin Henry

Corporal C. W. St. J Nobbs

Cumbling Michael

Curry Gardens

Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler

Deadman's Curve
Death

Dorfl

D'regs
Duckman

Dwarf Gold Song

Dwarf Hi Ho Song

Eldritch means oblong

Events from Moving Pictures

Events from Reaperman

Foul Ole Ron

Gaspode (Limping Mongrel

Genua

Gimlet's Delicatessen / Hole Food

Glod

Havelock Vetinari, Patrician

Hex

Hygiene

Lancre

Llamedos

Miss Eulalie Butts

Modo the Dwarf Gardener at UU
Molly, maid

Mort

Moving Pictures

Mr. Hong and his All Night Take-Away Shop on Dagon Street

Mrs. Cosmopolite

Mrs. Whitlow

Music with Rocks In

Mustrum Ridcully, Archchancellor

Offler, The Crocodile-Headed God

Old Man Trouble

Ossory's Ass - Holy St. Bobby

Ponder Stibbons

Quantum

Queen Keli of Sto Lat

Quoth the Raven

Ramtops

Riktor the Counter
Scrote

Sergeant Fred Colon

Skazz

Susan Sto Helit

Tez the terrible

The Alchemists' Guild

The Assassins' Guild

The Bunch of Grapes

The Bursar

The Chair of Indefinite Studies

The Counterweight Continent

The Dean

The Death of Rats

The Fools' Guild

The High Energy Magic Building

The Hogfather

The Lecturer in Recent Runes

The Librarian

The Listening Monks

The Mended Drum

The Opera House

The Power of Belief

The Quirm College for Young Ladies

The Rite of Ashk-Ente

The Seamstresses' Guild

The Senior Wrangler

The Thieves' Guild

The Tooth Fairy

Things from the Dungeon Dimensions

Unseen University

Ysabell