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LeeC:
I finished Good Omens yesterday by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The book was very funny and the story intriguing. The premise is simple. The end is nigh...but an angel and demon kind of like earth the way it is and do not want it all to end, so they team up to stop the end of the world. The characters are perhaps the best thing about the book, also the narration. The interpretation of good and evil and how humans seem to do it better than angels or demons was pretty fun. At some point I will try and watch the Amazon Prime show. The ending wasn't what I expected but made sense in retrospect considering the philosophy and rules set up for the world and story.
LTK:
Having read the book, the Prime show was mildly disappointing, especially since American Gods was such a riot - although to be fair, I haven't read that book.
(click to show/hide)Also, I might be misremembering, but isn't the book's ending completely different from the show's ending?
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 31 May 2019, 10:56 ---I'm nearing the end of "An Artist of the Floating World" by Kazuo Ishiguro. I first heard of the writer way back in college - one of my professors was often raving about him - but I didn't get around to reading any of his novels until now.
It's... kinda amazing. My mother (whom I bought the book) described it as "a novel where nothing happens", but she really, really liked it. And honestly? That's a good description. Nothing really happens throughout the book. There's not much of a story. But it's also very good. The dialogue maintains tension and held my interest really well.
I'm definitely reading more books by this guy, and soon. If they are all this well-written, his 2017 Nobel Prize was well-deserved.
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If you like that (as I did that book as well), let me recommend the movie Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari) to you. It's long, very slow, and not much happens really, yet I was completely entranced by it.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 31 May 2019, 10:33 ---Ged like Get, not Jed like Jet.
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Yeah... s'what I meant.
Ged (in the UK certainly) is pronounced like Jet.
Blue Kitty:
Watched all of Good Omens and now I'm gonna read the book :evil:
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