![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But on re-reading the book ahead of the release of the series, I realised that it doesn’t hold up quite as well as I thought. Pratchett passed away 2015, leaving the future of any Good Omens adaptationwhich Gaiman had previously said he didn’t. The book is a comedy about the birth of the son of Satan and the coming of the End Times. Neil Gaiman WAS RELUCTANT to adapt Good Omens without Terry Pratchett. I didn’t read Good Omens as often, but like any true cult-classic fan, I held on to my much borrowed, much battered copy across two masters degrees, three jobs and three states. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch is a 1990 novel written as a collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. There were other funny books, yes, but I already knew and loved Pratchett’s storytelling and the arc of his ethical universe-and that familiar mix of humour and earnestness was especially comforting at a time when my personal sense of right and wrong seemed at odds with the world around me. Humour was my only coping mechanism through depression, and reading Discworld made me laugh when little else did. He wrote the screenplay for the original BBC TV series of ‘Neverwhere’ (1996) the feature film, ‘ Mirrormask’ (2005), the script to Robert Zemeckis’s ‘ Beowulf. When I went through a particularly bleak personal phase a couple of years later, rereading Discworld obsessively (especially the Witches and Vimes books) helped me feel like I hadn’t entirely lost the parts of myself that made me who I was-my nerdiness, my love for trivia and books, and my propensity for terrible puns and wordplay. Gaiman is active as a television and screenwriter. ![]()
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