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Good Omens is fun, but....
« on: March 09, 2004, 10:02:56 PM »
Blacker Darkness is funnier.  Honestly.  If you could only get that 'plot' thing down, Fell, you'd have it made.

However, Omens is a very amusing book--especially in concept.  While the line-by-line isn't particularly hilarious, the macroscopic workings are all pure genius.  I'm about halfway through, and I've enjoyed it so far.
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Re: Good Omens is fun, but....
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2004, 10:14:03 PM »
I assume Blacker Darkness is a book that Fell wrote?

I do enjoy Good Omens.  As far as co-authoring goes, though, I'm convinced that Neil Gaiman wrote the drama and that Pratchett wrote the goofiness.  And the footnotes, obviously.
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Re: Good Omens is fun, but....
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2004, 11:24:11 PM »
I wondered about that to.  I thought I was able to determine a difference in writing style between some of the viewpoints, but I'm not sure.  It feels like the angel/devil were written by one person and the boy by another.
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Re: Good Omens is fun, but....
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2004, 03:09:51 PM »
I'm in a flurry of edits right now for Blacker Darkness, actually. I did some research and some poking around and realized exactly how I need to end it. It's all going pretty smoothly now.

Maybe that's my secret to writing endings--come back to the book two years later.

Anyway, EUOL, I'm flattered that you find my book funnier than Good Omens. So do I, of course, but I always wrote that off to personal vanity.
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