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Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)
Terry Pratchett | 1995 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.7 (10 Ratings)
Book Rating
You gotta love a bit of Terry Pratchett.

Only he could take The Grim Reaper, and turn him into not-so-much a figure of fun, but use him to examine life and mortality and the nature of human existence.

I think there's five such books in which he takes a starring role in the entire Discworld series - those would be (in order) 'Mort', 'Reaper Man', this one, 'Hogfather' and 'Thief of Time'], with all but the first featuring the Death of Rats ("SQUEEK"), and with the latter three also featuring his grand-daughter Susan.

That, thus, makes this the first novel to do so, with plenty of puns and jokes around the music industry here as a new force comes into being on the Discworld: that of "Music with Rocks In".

For my money, this is top-tier Pratchett.
  
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David McK (3562 KP) rated Elevation (2024) in Movies

Mar 9, 2025 (Updated Mar 9, 2025)  
Elevation (2024)
Elevation (2024)
2024 |
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
2024 post-apocalyptic action movie, that comes across as a hybrid of Aliens and (maybe) "A Quiet Place", and that stars Anthony Mackie in a post-Falcon, pre-Captain America (movie) role alongside Morena Baccarin and set in a not-too-distant future where creatures have emerged from underground, have more or less wiped out mankind yet will not - for some unknown reason - ever travel above a certain elevation.

With his son sick and running out of life-saving medicine, Mackie's character Will resolves to travel 'below the line' to the nearest hospital, alongside his now-deceased wife's best friend and the woman whom he blames for said wife's death, in an attempt to procure more medicine and return back home with the same.

Film has a mid-credit scene, that sets up where the sequel (if it comes!) will go!