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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > General Bullshit > Good Omens is a good-ass book
 
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Feb 16, 2011

Hobohemian posted:

What does Pratchett write? I recognize the name for some reason. Is he like Don DeLillo? He has the kind of name of a guy that would write like Don DeLillo.
It's mostly like Clive Cussler. Suspense thrillers with a lot of classic cars and hot babes. He does some YA stuff too, like James Patterson.

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Feb 16, 2011

Kelfeftaf posted:

Though he uses a variety of different styles in his books. Pratchett's at his funniest when he mixes Elizabethan drama with Swiftian satire.
Haha, yeah, I can't enjoy my good airport fiction unless I pretend it's also something British and from the past, because I think that's what literature is.

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Feb 16, 2011

egon_beeblebrox posted:

It's too bad the rumored movie adaptation by Terry Gilliam has somehow become a TV adaptation by Terry Jones, instead.
Back in 2008, Sam Raimi was attached to a Wee Free Men movie.

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Feb 16, 2011

icantfindaname posted:

someone on SA said earlier and i agree completely that you can tell the parts Pratchett wrote and the parts Gaiman wrote because the Pratchett parts are funny and clever and the Gaiman parts are boring and suck poo poo
What are you talking about, Gaiman's portions were amazing, the Four Horsemen were extremely clever and interesting. Remember how the one ran a diet company, and the other was Looten Plunder from Captain Planet?

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Feb 16, 2011

FirstPersonShitter posted:

pratchett also said that working with gaiman put him off collaborating forever.

i can believe this because gaiman is a huge dingus whose main audience is chubby teen goths
This is also clearly untrue because Pratchett has two volumes out of a collaborative sci-fi series.

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Feb 16, 2011

icantfindaname posted:

no death was extremely clever and interesting, the other three were boring poo poo
You mean the version of Death that clearly borrowed from Pratchett rather than Gaiman?

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Feb 16, 2011

Kelfeftaf posted:

Now I have to read this good-rear end book. I've never read a collaboration before, and I want to see how messy it can be.
If you didn't know it was a collaboration you'd think it was one author who threw a lot of ideas at the wall and they didn't all stick.

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