Other children got given xylophones. Susan
just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Yes. There's a Death in the family.
It's hard to grown up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and weilds a scythe -
especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for
the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has
entered the Discworld. It's Lawless. It changes people.
It's called Music with Rocks In.
It's got a beach and you can dance to it, but ...
It's alive.
And it won't fade away.
Interesting Times
Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and
his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy).
The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by
the revolutionary treatise What I Did On My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to
lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are
spreading through the ancient cities.
And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for eveyone is:
Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word wizard ...
Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's
experience of not dying ...
...and a very special butterfly.
Maskerade
The Opera House, Ankh Morpork . . . a huge,
rambling building, where masked figures and hooded shadows do wicked deeds in the wings .
. . where dying the death on stage is a little bit more than just a metaphor . . . where
innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously
deformed evening dress . . .
Where . . . there's a couple of old ladies in pointy hats eating peanuts in the stalls and
looking at the big chandelier and saying things like: 'There's an accident waiting to
happen if ever I saw one'.
Yes . . . Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's greatest witches, are back for
an innocent night at the opera.
So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with
murders you can really hum)
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