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so i have just started reading Good Omens
Jul. 23rd, 2023 10:22 pm(READING it. i've seen the first season of the show.) (i'm not reading it because of the new season coming out) (i'm reading it because i've had it for three or four years now and haven't gotten through it somehow and my holds weren't in at the library.)
and while i haven't read any neil gaiman outside of, like, The Graveyard Book in the sixth grade, and while i am fairly new to terry pratchett (having read the first two moist von lipwig books and the first city watch book and then like, one ya book when i was 13), i am struck by how similar it feels to the discworld books that i've read. and no, it's not just because of the footnotes. it's in the, like, flippant comedy of it, the droll little asides and the switch to the perspective of a frog or some random exec in the middle of a graveyard. it's SO distinctive. and that distinctive tone was really well-preserved in the show, from what i remember, speaking as someone who watched the show first and then took a three-year break or so before getting around to the book. ETA: and death is the same, too!!!
on the flip side, i'm having fun with what got left OUT of the show. adam has an older sister? confirmation of what happened to the surplus baby? girlboss sister mary loquacious? what will i discover next?
(i'm a little less than halfway through.)
(also, this is my very first post on dw, hi! i couldn't think of anything interesting or appropriately introductory over the past couple of days but i figured why not throw some random disorganized book thoughts into the void.)
and while i haven't read any neil gaiman outside of, like, The Graveyard Book in the sixth grade, and while i am fairly new to terry pratchett (having read the first two moist von lipwig books and the first city watch book and then like, one ya book when i was 13), i am struck by how similar it feels to the discworld books that i've read. and no, it's not just because of the footnotes. it's in the, like, flippant comedy of it, the droll little asides and the switch to the perspective of a frog or some random exec in the middle of a graveyard. it's SO distinctive. and that distinctive tone was really well-preserved in the show, from what i remember, speaking as someone who watched the show first and then took a three-year break or so before getting around to the book. ETA: and death is the same, too!!!
on the flip side, i'm having fun with what got left OUT of the show. adam has an older sister? confirmation of what happened to the surplus baby? girlboss sister mary loquacious? what will i discover next?
(i'm a little less than halfway through.)
(also, this is my very first post on dw, hi! i couldn't think of anything interesting or appropriately introductory over the past couple of days but i figured why not throw some random disorganized book thoughts into the void.)
