June Book Club discussion post

[writerlibrarian]

June Book Club : Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Book description, links and other stuff at Harper Collins site.

So you can post your thoughts, your reviews here.

A few ideas for discussions, you can totally ignore them, they are there to start up discussions.

Both Gaiman and Pratchett are on record about writing Good Omens for fun and that in the end they are not sure for some parts who wrote what? Are the Pratchett parts obvious, are the Gaiman parts obvious?

Good Omens was written before the whole Internet made it easy to write in tandem and being physically thousand of miles apart. Would it be different if it was written now?

Do you need to have a British background to "get" the humor (jokes) in Good Omens?

Angels mythology, anyone?

Apocalyptic fiction: From Good Omens to The Road ?

Let's the discussions begin....

Comments

[rodo]

I never read a Terry Pratchett book, but I could definitely notice his influence on the books. I couldn't really tell apart which part was written by whom, though.

I don't think you necessary need to have a British backgroud too either, but I might just think like that because I didn't notice the jokes you needed it for.

[writerlibrarian]

Probably the case for me. I didn't have the proper inside jokes to get them. Still clever book