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What aunt_zelda Thinks: Good Omens
Aug. 7th, 2009 10:01 pmOh my GOD ... favorite book status officially achieved!
Not only is it a fantastic, hilarious, clever novel about a (shippable) demon and angel trying to avert the apocalypse, penned by a dream team, it lasted me a good two-and-a-half days whilst I was busy going to rehearsals for The Winter's Tale. No mean feat.
If you haven't read it already, go out and BUY the book. I'm serious.
I'm not sure what was funnier: the houseplants, Crowley's car, the sword, Newt's car, or the Spanish Inquisition. (I laughed for a good three minutes when DEATH showed up. I KNOW he wasn't the Discworld DEATH, but he sure seemed an awful lot like him for a while there ...) And on top of that, I have the sneaking suspicion that I'll have to re-read it a couple dozen times to get all the jokes. ('Cause I'm a stupid American, after all ... *sighs* that was the only bit I didn't like: the stabs at Americans. Is that REALLY how we appear to the English? Is this boorish image the English have of us because we dumped some stupid tea into the Boston Bay? We cleaned up the ship afterwards!)
The debate currently going on inside my head is not whether Crowley and Aziraphale are slashible (I'm mostly-convinced that they're canon, actually ...) but about one of my Crazy Awesome Insane theories ...
Whacky aunt_zelda Theory: Crowley and Aziraphale are allegories of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, respectively.
Before you start booing and throwing shoes and de-friending me for fear I'll start WRITING that (I think we all learned a valuable lesson about RPS two weeks ago ...) let me propose some questions:
1) Is the above Theory widely acknowledged in fandom, or has it at least been stated before?
2) Am I criminally insane?
3) Have you read the authors' bits about each other at the end of the book?
4) Should I shut up now?
Not only is it a fantastic, hilarious, clever novel about a (shippable) demon and angel trying to avert the apocalypse, penned by a dream team, it lasted me a good two-and-a-half days whilst I was busy going to rehearsals for The Winter's Tale. No mean feat.
If you haven't read it already, go out and BUY the book. I'm serious.
I'm not sure what was funnier: the houseplants, Crowley's car, the sword, Newt's car, or the Spanish Inquisition. (I laughed for a good three minutes when DEATH showed up. I KNOW he wasn't the Discworld DEATH, but he sure seemed an awful lot like him for a while there ...) And on top of that, I have the sneaking suspicion that I'll have to re-read it a couple dozen times to get all the jokes. ('Cause I'm a stupid American, after all ... *sighs* that was the only bit I didn't like: the stabs at Americans. Is that REALLY how we appear to the English? Is this boorish image the English have of us because we dumped some stupid tea into the Boston Bay? We cleaned up the ship afterwards!)
The debate currently going on inside my head is not whether Crowley and Aziraphale are slashible (I'm mostly-convinced that they're canon, actually ...) but about one of my Crazy Awesome Insane theories ...
Whacky aunt_zelda Theory: Crowley and Aziraphale are allegories of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, respectively.
Before you start booing and throwing shoes and de-friending me for fear I'll start WRITING that (I think we all learned a valuable lesson about RPS two weeks ago ...) let me propose some questions:
1) Is the above Theory widely acknowledged in fandom, or has it at least been stated before?
2) Am I criminally insane?
3) Have you read the authors' bits about each other at the end of the book?
4) Should I shut up now?
