Good Omens

[kelamuni]

Anyone here read Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett? I thought it was quite clever and often very funny, though I thought that the ending was a bit of a let down. I've taken a liking to Terry Pratchett's sense of humor and allusive, indirect style and have started reading volumes from the discworld series. I read Guards! Guards! and liked it very much -- in some ways more so than Good Omens. I'm onto the Wyrd Sisters now.

[Christophe]

Yes I liked Good Omens too. Pratchett is a clever guy who writes funny and a bit subversive stuff. His alternate Disc World Universe gets ever more complex, in the latest novels there seems to be a kind of modernity that begins to emerge in the Capital Ankh-Morpork. Also his fairy tales about Cats and Mice are a fun to read and surpisingly deep shit.

Interesting fact: Pratechett used to be spokesperson for a nuclear powerplant corporation before he cancelled the job and began writing fantasy novels. talk about escapism.

 

[kelamuni]

hey chris. thanx 4 da response. maybe terry had ethical issues at the plant. but who knows; he may be a conservative. hahaha. love his mind though. refreshingly brilliant and subversive in this day of recycled trash and toeing the line.

[Christophe]

thanx 4 da response.

 

eh he he. sure, bro. we postmetas must keep together, aye.

 

I'm not saying that Terry is a conservative. Also I don't think conservatives are bad and evil. In the best sense, being conservative means to "conserve" what is good and beautiful (not necessarily whats true). Which makes it a question of ethics and aesthetics, once again. There is nobody like Nietzsche to provide the crucial insights there, which appaerently the Americans, includung Wilber,  still have to read. And understand correctly. When I listen to Roger Walsh saying things like "if you want to be ethical, get close to ethical people" it gives me the creeps. Genaology of Morals, Integral People! at least read the wiki page. please. on and on [off topic] I continue elsewhere.