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

[seanlily]

I read it a couple of years ago and while I really enjoyed it then, I didn't want to reread, so I'm commenting from memory.

I had read one Pratchett book prior but I don't think I read any Gaiman (though I've read lots since) so I couldn't tell who wrote what.

I felt at the time that I got a lot of the humor but probably missed a lot as well.

I liked the almost silliness of the whole thing, end of the world coming but little things derailing it.

[writerlibrarian]

I have American Gods in my to-read Gaiman pile but I'll probably get to the Graveyard one to be able to recommend it at work.