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

[sonneta]

I've read a lot of Pratchett, and only one other Gaiman. To me, some of the parts seemed very obviously Pratchett (like the tapes that always turn into Queen), but I couldn't really pick out any parts as "obviously written by Gaiman".

I'm American, and I got some of the jokes, though perhaps not all of them.

I like this book, and I find it hilarious, but I kind of have to ignore the theology of it, because the theology is incredibly bad. As one of my friends once said, "It's like they forgot about the New Testament- except for the book of Revelations".