Imagine my surprise when a friend mentions casually that Soul Music was an animated feature and he had the DVD. Having played in a band myself, I could appreciate the musical in-jokes better than most. Having read all the Discworld books so far, I still think Soul Music is my favorite. It took four years to get back to the Mort storyline with Reaper Man in 1991, and another three years to continue the story in Soul Music in 1994. Mort went on to be a stage play, and Pratchett went on to write other things. But then, Pratchett produced a novel, Mort, that was dangerously close to literature. The first three are barely worth bothering with. Let's face it the Discworld novels are rather uneven. The rock music is proving to be a great success, but iit has plans for Imp and everybody wanting to play it, and it is up to Susan, the head of the wizards, the Archchancellor and Death (that is, if he can be found and made to remember who and what he is.) to stop it before it conquers the entire Discworld. Susan finds herself pressed into taking over Death's "duty", but finds that she is falling in love with an elf/human, Imp, who is slowly being taken over by a kind of "musical" force that is forcing Imp and his friends to play rock music to the Discworld. Her grandfather is Death, who wants to forget that he has just "processed" his adopted daughter and her husband, who was Susan's mother and father, as this is causing him great grief, and Death is a person that can remember everything, much to his chagrin. On Discworld (a world carried by four elephants standing on a huge turtle in space), a small girl, Susan Sto Helit, has got a major problem.
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