June 2024 | Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

[crystal cove]

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[unkempt sierra]

I’m ready

[woeful jungle]

Let’s gooooooo

[upbeat lake]

Yessss! I've been absent for a few months, but I'm ready to get back in the game. This is a great book to start with.

[atomic knot]

kaikeyi was doomed from the start…a tragedy

[woeful jungle]

It literally almost made it, lmao

[atomic knot]

tink don’t ruin the essence of our victory

[woeful jungle]

Choco sees a book tie and then lose by 12 votes in a tie-breaker: is this book doomed by the narrative?

[atomic knot]

[lethal latch]

I’ve been reading this and trying to finish it for months (not because I don’t like it, it just became one of those books) and this is the perfect motivation to finish!

[frozen flicker]

hold #5 on 11 copies of this book at the library, should be easy enough to get before the end of June!

[tardy harbor]

Yesss I have mine on the way to my library!

[vernal cypress]

Gonna have to find my copy

Perhaps may also read the one that's been signed

[viscid plinth]

This gives me an excuse to buy the physical copy! I hope I can find it though

[unborn stirrup]

Hey all, I was wondering if theres like a reading guide for the BOTM?

[atomic knot]

there’s really no explicit rules except read the book within the month and write your thoughts (and move to the finish thread when you’re done)

[atomic knot]

#book-club message

[unborn stirrup]

ohh i see

thank you!!

[unborn stirrup]

I bought it!!! can't wait to start

[rocky night]

A TRAITOR

[unborn stirrup]

IM READING BOTHHHHH

[upbeat lake]

Has anyone started reading this?

[normal marlin]

starts tomorrow

but maybe someone has started already

[unkempt sierra]

no I'm holding off until it officially starts

[upbeat lake]

I read one page last night before nodding off to sleep. Guess I'm on schedule lol

[unborn stirrup]

im waiting as well hah

[tardy osprey]

I absolutely love this book. Have fun everyone!

[tardy harbor]

Mine is still on the way to my library hopefully it arrives soon

[rocky night]

hello hello hello!!

Welcome to the June Book of the Month!
The server goes by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), meaning that Good Omens officially begins <t:1717200000:R>

If this is your first event in the server, our Book of the Month is meant for a large group to collectively decide on a book to read, and then discuss the story as we read it together throughout the month.
If you read the book within the timeframe, and discuss your thoughts, then you get the chance at earning reader points ❤️
You can find more info in our #faq

Prepare your books! Good Omens begins in just a few hours.

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[dense monolith]

can't wait to start!

[unborn stirrup]

lets gooo

[fallen viper]

Alright! 🙂

[upbeat lake]

Yeeaahhh buddy! So excited

[tardy harbor]

I don't think I was tagged in this?

[round fiber]

Because you were already in the thread

[sonic creek]

ah damn it won haha

[unborn stirrup]

How do you guys manage to read multiple books at the same time?

[woeful jungle]

Brain rot

[unborn stirrup]

Cause like I’m reading Kaikeyi for a buddy read and I also wanna participate in this BOTM

[woeful jungle]

Mostly if I’m going to read different books at the same time, they’ll be different genres, maybe ones a reread, or different formats. Like I’ll have an audiobook for work and a physical book for chill out time, etc

[woeful jungle]

I think you’ll find they’re really different so there shouldn’t be too much issue with confusing the plot or anything. So then you just have to figure out how to split your reading time

[normal marlin]

i manage it by avoiding it

[unborn stirrup]

Oh ok! I think I’ll try and finish kaikeyi first as I’m already 3 chapters in!!

[regal pumice]

i just got here and i really want to join all your previous books look so good. ill get the book rn and try to read asap

[upbeat lake]

According to my Kindle, I'm only 9% of the way through and I'm loving it so far! I really want to check out the tv series after this.

[unkempt sierra]

I'll be watching the show after reading as well

[normal marlin]

i love the show

it's very well made

[unkempt sierra]

Is the next season the last one?

[upbeat lake]

I've seen some clips that had me laughing, I love the actors. Right now I'm listening to the audio book cocurrently to reading the book and the narrator's voices are quite great. I really think I'm going to like this book, and I hope I'm not wrong!

[round fiber]

yes season 3 is the last one.
but season 1 already is the whole book and the rest of the series is added stuff

[tardy harbor]

Yes same I've been curious about the show

[regal pumice]

it took me a while to get through the first part, its difficult for me to imagine this

but im on part 2 and its flowing easier

[viscid plinth]

Same! The show is how I got into neil gaiman’s stuff

[autumn monolith]

I won't be reading Good Omens due to finals, but I am here to cheer everyone on.

[compact prairie]

I’m not rereading this either, but I love both the book and show, so I’m just lurking

Also, this audio production is epic https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/62d4b0fd-3466-4a5c-bb93-336aafe752ab

[solid panther]

i'm starting this today just finished #1231183270503251990

[solid panther]

|| just got overwhelmed with tha characters names||

[nova umbra]

||I love Good Omens so much. I love how Aziraphale and Crowley debate which one of them was responsible for the Reign of Terror so nonchalantly and treating it like it's an IOU.||

[void nymph]

I’ve started this and like 40% through so far. Listening to the audiobook narrated by the cast of the show (I think?) and it’s so much fun

||Aziraphale and Crowley are such good fun honestly and I’m loving their parts but like certain other bits feel kinda dull though and find myself just glossing over a lot of that

I think since everything kinda plays out just like the show, I’m not finding it hard to keep up but I feel I might have had I read the book first ||

[void nymph]

Finished this last night! Honestly had nothing to comment on or any thoughts while reading. The book was a breeze and having watched the show fairly recently, it felt like I was rewatching but like my mind playing the visuals instead

[unkempt sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/no_think_vibe_only-gif-27018031

Hanzy reading this

[void nymph]

This was literally me through the book like no kidding
I have some final thoughts that I’ll share on the other thread but it’s currently quite lonely there

[fallow crater]

in the beginning ||loving the tone of this book already||

also in my copy, in the forward its mentioned that a copy of this book is in the vatican library, which i find interesting

[civic plover]

probably wont be reading this this month, im just here to see peoples thoughts

[upbeat lake]

That's so cool!!

[dense monolith]

I started

Eleven Years Ago
||I watched the show a couple years ago and I can still see some of the scenes flashing by in front of my eyes when I'm reading! The show is actually very close to the book, but I like that I watched the show first so I can picture Crowley and Aziraphale convincingly in my head. The word choices are very British lol, and I fear sometimes I misunderstand things. However, I'm still having so much fun with it!
The duck feeding park filled with spies is my fav spot in the book besides Aziraphale's bookshop ||

[void nymph]

Yessss!|| The show’s such a close adaptation!! Plus I listened to the audiobook narrated by the cast so it was double pleasure listening in to David Tennant’s Crowley and Sheen’s Aziraphale

I felt the same way as you btw, had I read the book first, a lot of it might have been a tad bit confusing and like it’s being way too ambitious or something. Still fun though. Also yeah, the duck feeding might be my favourite too but just because of my fluff balls interactions there ||

[dense monolith]

Eleven Years Ago
||This little piggy is metal. ||
Wednesday
||It's fun to see them teaching a child, but I sometimes wonder how things would be if they went to the right child -- the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness (you can see I love his titles lol). ||

[viscid plinth]

Its the same for me, ive been marking all the things that were exactly the same in the book and show

[fallen viper]

I am 2 hours into the audiobook & honestly, I am kinda lost but entertained. How?😅

[woeful jungle]

That’s fair lol

[dense monolith]

I finished

[regal pumice]

This book is taking me a while to read…

Events are not wrapping up as fast as I expected them to

[tardy harbor]

I just picked up my book yesterday, I'll start it soon!

[frozen flicker]

started this! so far I'm giggling away. I like the ||implication of Crowley making Manchester and it being his proudest evil feat. I also like that the authors poke fun at hippies playing guitars as a great evil in the world in the same vein as the KKK. so far the book is goofy and I'm enjoying the tongue-in-cheek tone||

[tardy harbor]

Starting now!

[fallow seal]

Starting Now!!!

[frozen flicker]

read chapter 2! I'm pretty busy with school so I'm not moving very fast through this, but I'm still having fun. I'm entertained by the ||swapped baby trope, and the fact that Aziraphale wants to stop the world from ending because if it did, he could only listen to music by people in the "good" camp and that wouldn't be enough diversity, or wouldn't leave him enough music that he enjoys valid imo. I also enjoyed the whole section about his second hand bookshop that he tries not to sell books from, and his collection of bibles with print errors. ||

[fallow seal]

The || secondhand bookshop || had me cracking up almost the entire time.

[frozen flicker]

me too! I especially love the ||printing of the bible that includes the Lord asking Aziraphale where he put the flaming sword||

[fallow seal]

Yes, that was awesome 🤣!

[twilit raft]

started this yesterday

Thursday|| five hundred tons of uranium missing and in that place is lemon drop, Adam did this without knowing ?? And I didn’t expect an entire day devoted just to Adam Young but it's so interesting||

[worthy bobcat]

Starting today

[frozen flicker]

read chapter 3! the highlight for me|| was the hell hound changing itself into a cute puppy so its master would love and accept it, and Adam naming it Dog which may not be sufficient in the eyes of Hell to count as a name||

Aziraphale has ||Agnus Nutter's prophecy so things are really going to get rolling now||

[fallow crater]

until saturday ||im moving at the pace of a snail with this book. not that into the plot but i like aziraphale. he seems cool||

[sinful trench]

im like 30% in and ngl ||not vibing with this book at all... ill give it til like 50% before dnfing ig ||

[atomic knot]

eleven years ago
||i love the tone of this book it’s so fun to read. the characters introduced are so random but it’s also hilarious so who cares this is just what i needed after reading two disappointing books||

||the fact that aziraphale and crowley are friends and interact normally is so funny the drunk scene lol||

[fallow seal]

Eleven Years Ago
I’m 50% in and I’m loving the book! It is funny but at the same time can be confusing. But I think it is awesome so far!!!

[vernal cypress]

Started reading Good Omens cause I just needed something easy to read last night, forgot just how fun it is

[frozen flicker]

I am also halfway through the book. I'm enjoying ||seeing all the characters converge on Adam's location. He's making outrageous things occur around him and doesn't seem to have noticed, which is goofy. I liked the UFOs threatening punitive action for our treatment of the Earth haha||

I'm a big fan of Anathema, she's pretty easily my favorite character so far. I also like what we've learned so far about Agnes Nutter. Aziraphale|| has finished reading the book of prophecies so we'll get to see what he does next, and that should be fun.||

[worthy bobcat]

I'm halfway through too! This has been very cool so far ._. And I hope to finish the book tomorrow

The bits with the ||horsemen|| are cool too but the tone doesn't match imo

I think Sable's whole thing is very funny

[frozen flicker]

oh do you think? I actually find ||the horsemen really compelling||

[magic ore]

oh do you think? I
actually find ||the horsemen
really compelling||

- thelastpage🪴

[fallow seal]

Yes

[frozen flicker]

I like seeing how they're personified

[worthy bobcat]

Oh definitely, i just don't think it fits

[frozen flicker]

thanks Haiku

[fallow seal]

Everything is just so funny

[worthy bobcat]

I havent laughed a whole lot, but I think it's all amusing for sure

[magic ore]

I havent laughed a
whole lot, but I think it's all
amusing for sure

- amadeusbrahms

[worthy bobcat]

Neil Gaiman is a cool dude. I really liked The Ocean at the End of the Lane

[frozen flicker]

I occasionally read something, stop and read it again, and then go "heh"

[worthy bobcat]

I need to read Terry Pratchett one of these days

[worthy bobcat]

I read a lot of his kids books when I was younger too

[fallow seal]

I love Terry Pratchett my mother got me into reading some of his stuff

And I hope to read some more Neil Gaiman in the future

[worthy bobcat]

There's this really awesome hardcover illustrated version that I got a copy of

Bit expensive for a book but absolutely stunning imo

[magic ore]

Bit expensive for
a book but absolutely
stunning imo

- amadeusbrahms

[fallow seal]

I bet

[worthy bobcat]

And I love modern fantasy even if it's just at someone's cottage

[fallow seal]

Yes some of those books can be so fascinating

[worthy bobcat]

I like modern fantasy (and I suppose Good Omens applies too) because it tempers more of the parts of fantasy novels that make me roll my eyes

And the suspension of disbelief is easier to swallow

[fallow seal]

I mean I will pretty much read anything in the fiction genre lol

[worthy bobcat]

I don't like romance novels usually bc crimge

But otherwise me too

[fallow seal]

Yeah romance novels can be like stop please stop

[worthy bobcat]

SERIOUSLY

Like just ew please stop

Especially when straight women write romance novels about gay men

Disturbingly common

And we ain't friends like that Becky

[fallow seal]

Yeah

[worthy bobcat]

But ive read some good romance stories

No novels yet bc i feel like it's hard to drag that out so much

Real romances are just boring

[fallow seal]

Yeah there are good ones and bad ones

[worthy bobcat]

Like i love my boyfriend but we aren't that interesting

You can't make a romance book out of sitting at home and watching Netflix

[autumn monolith]

How is everyone doing on their reading of Good Omens?

[vernal cypress]

I'm up to Wednesday and am having a lot of fun with the bits I forgot about (e.g. the appearances of the four horsemen earlier in the book)

[atomic knot]

wednesday
||first of all, the titles for the baby this whole chapter was just i love crowley being chill and then there’s aziraphale being himself. the characters are so fun too||

[frozen flicker]

I'm up to 70% through the book! I feel like the board is set and I'm looking forward to seeing how all the pieces come into play. ||Crowley is currently on his way to find Adam. I really enjoyed the scene of him defeating the demons who had come to collect him. Aziraphale seems to be hopping around the world in spirit form? We'll see what kind of shenanigans ensue from that. I'm also very invested in Newt and Anathema. ||

[solid panther]

It's feels like I'm forcing to read this book The book and me somehow don't want to vibe

[sinful trench]

real

i finished it and didnt like it

too meandering for me

[worthy bobcat]

That was a cool bit

[worthy bobcat]

Honestly my main issue is that

But I can look past it bc it's enjoyable enough even with the meandering

I don't like how ||the main protagonists are just absent for the whole middle of the book, and this wouldn't be so bad if they weren't introduced first and put on the cover of the book like they not gonna deadbeat on you||

Spoilers for up to Saturday maybe

[sinful trench]

yeah agree ||i didnt give a flying fart about all those side characters i wanted az and crowley||

[worthy bobcat]

All of those parts WERE necessary but where they fucked up was not adding parts with them in between

[frozen flicker]

I totally agree that there's a huge section in the middle ||where Aziraphale and Crowley are just not present, where the authors are sort of setting the scene or setting up the other moving parts of the story, and I really missed them and kept hoping we'd come back to them soon||

I get what people mean by meandering. I kind of feel like this book is written like a tv show, like each little section is a scene from a show, and making sense of it that way has helped me understand a bit more of what the authors are doing, maybe

[worthy bobcat]

Yeah and those parts WERE good but it is not what anybody signed up for, || I DNF'd this book a couple years ago on audiobook bc i couldn't stand the narrator droning on about random dudes||

[frozen flicker]

also Neil Gaiman previously wrote graphic novels right, so maybe each short section is like a page or a panel from a graphic novel? I get the feeling that he's a very visual writer

[worthy bobcat]

Also iirc this was his first novel

Which is e v i d e n t

Pacing wise

But I'm still really enjoying it, and he's a super amusing writer

I'm definitely gonna have to read American Gods soon

[frozen flicker]

I have Ocean at the End of the Lane and Stardust on my tbr, I think I'll keep them there and revisit Gaiman in the future

[worthy bobcat]

Ocean at the End of the Lane was awesome

[frozen flicker]

it'll be interesting to compare, to see how much of this book is a combination of him and Pratchett

[frozen flicker]

nice!

[worthy bobcat]

Apparently, back when Pratchett was alive, both of them would insist that the other did 90% of the work

[frozen flicker]

haha that tracks

[vernal cypress]

Honestly as much as I fucking adore the tv show (I'll get around to watching season two eventually shush) it is very much an Az and Crowley-focused show which I adore but also can make the book feel like its lacking them a lot

But also I'm a collector of weird guys so I am here for all the other characters

(Anathema is my favourite but also that is because I am very gay and the woman who plays her in the show is gorgeous)

[worthy bobcat]

See I never watched the show past 5 minutes of pilot because it Looks Cringe

And the lack of protagonist in the story still bothers me

[fallow seal]

|| When Crowley’s car was on fire and burning the dude giving him detections we so confused || 🤣🤣

[fallow seal]

33 minutes left!!!!

[round fiber]

i started watching season 2 again today (it‘s my comfort show) and now i also picked up the book again
might look like a weird order/combination to an outsider but i‘m excited

In the Beginning
|| i can’t help but read the dialogue in the voices of David Tennant and Michael Sheen ||

[fallow seal]

I finished it!!!

[round fiber]

Eleven Years Ago
|| i just love this introduction of the characters and Crowley and Aziraphale‘s dynamic is just too good ||

[round fiber]

Wednesday
|| I just love how Anathema thinks that Crowley & Aziraphale are a gay couple || ||(because they are) ||

[frozen flicker]

I like that the authors leave it open-ended, you can read them as a sort of couple, or you can read them as two entities who are platonically very close with one another, and that vibes with me

[round fiber]

i mean it was the 90s, || i think Neil said before that they couldn’t write them explicitly as a romantic couple ||

[frozen flicker]

that makes sense!

[bronze nexus]

I'm 37% in and I'm mostly enjoying it so far! It did take me a while to get into it, and watching the first episode of the TV show helped with that a lot. I'm very ambivalent about the meandering. Sometimes it's nice, other times I just wanna get back to the main story lol. And right now ||I'm itching to go back to Crowley and Aziraphale please, I wanna see Aziraphale's reaction to the book other than being super engrossed in it||

Also I'm loving the jokes about ||all of Crowley's cassette tapes turning into Queen's Greatest Hits in his car|| and the tangents about ||Crowley turning fake guns into real guns||

[worthy bobcat]

Honestly it's not open ended. It says in the book that Aziraphale isn't gay

[frozen flicker]

does it? I haven't come across that yet then. All I've found so far is that he comes across as gay

or that people think he is gay

[worthy bobcat]

It says something like "One's first impression of Aziraphale is that he is gayer than a pack of howler monkeys huffing nitrous oxide" or something like that

And then explains that he doesn't feel much of that in either direction at all

[atomic knot]

i only watched the first five minutes of the first episode and i thought that

[frozen flicker]

I think the book describes angels as ||"sexless" which I actually read as them lacking sexual organs haha||

I mean the show is explicitly queer, and Gaiman is a very hands-on producer of the show, so we can take from that what we will as well

[worthy bobcat]

It also says that they lack those yes

Not everything is a gay fanfic, guys ._.

[frozen flicker]

I personally prefer the platonic reading because I like when characters in books can have close relationships of various sorts without it necessarily being romantic, but it is also the case that Gaiman seems to have leaned into the queer reading of the book with his work on the show

so, you know, open to interpretation

[atomic knot]

oh so the book isn't queer but the show is?

[worthy bobcat]

But also Gaiman isn't the definitive speaker for what was intended with the book because he didn't write a portion of it

[frozen flicker]

the book is not explicitly queer

but that is one reading

[atomic knot]

that's interesting

[frozen flicker]

that's true, unfortunately Terry Pratchett has passed so we don't get his perspective, we only get interviews with Gaiman where he has said he's tried to be true to Pratchett's memory with the production of the show

[void nymph]

I honestly love that it’s open to interpretation

I’m generally more into sweet platonic relationships and like to interpret it that way

[worthy bobcat]

But like yeah idk

I'm gay too guys but people need to calm down sometimes, straight men do exist

[frozen flicker]

but like Katto pointed out, in the 90s there wasn't a ton of gay representation, so I can understand why that reading also mattered to folks

[frozen flicker]

I mean, that's of course true, but I would say in this book there's no indication that either character is attracted to women, it's sort of either each other or nobody

at least, as far as I can recall

[worthy bobcat]

It's definitely nobody

Like they aren't people

[civic plover]

i would like to say, neil gaiman has explicitly said that good omens is a love story on twitter, not talking about the show but the story itself

[worthy bobcat]

There are kinds of love that aren't romantic ? Like

[civic plover]

yes there are, but usually when someone says "Its a love story" they arent talking about just friends 💀 if he meant it in the way that theyre just friends, hed have said it was a story about friendship

[atomic knot]

guys someone dm neil gaiman to confirm /j

[civic plover]

LMAOOO

[atomic knot]

[frozen flicker]

haha just check his Tumblr, he responds to dms all the time

https://www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman

[civic plover]

"dear mr gaiman, theres a debate in my bookclub right now that i need you to settle. are aziraphale and crowley in love or nah"

[frozen flicker]

there's a Good Omens FAQ pinned to the top of his Tumblr, there might be something in there

[normal marlin]

i watched the show first, so that's gonna be my headcanon

[worthy bobcat]

That would imply im not tired and lazy

[atomic knot]

im actually considering this

it sounds pretty straightforward

[civic plover]

LMAOOOOOO

i mean like i said he has clarified it before, i can find the tweet hes lichrally said its a love story

i did an essay on the queer rep in good omens nd while my focus was on the show did reference the book a lot, i know too much about this silly little book

[atomic knot]

an essay?

[civic plover]

hell yeah do you want me to send it you i also did one about childhood trauma in IT HAHAHAH

[atomic knot]

OMG AN IT ESSAY?

yesss i want them

[civic plover]

LMAOO ILL DM YOU

[frozen flicker]

finished! I like that ||this book is predicated on humanity as a kind of ambivalent force, neither good nor evil, and that Adam being left to come up as human made him resistant to ending the world and participating in the apocalypse. I also love that Anathema decided to burn the second part of Agnes Nutter's prophecies, rather than know what comes next||

[round fiber]

|| okay so while the book isn’t explicitly queer i‘m still choosing to interpret like that because i watched the show first.
also yes, Aziraphale & Crowley are sexless and and genderless non-human entities who choose to present as men (most of the time) so calling them a male gay couple doesn’t track, but that’s not what’s important to me. what is important to me, is that they love each other and have a 6000 year slowburn going on. also in the show it’s made pretty clear that it’s not just queerbaiting.||
^ book & tv show discussion

Neil Gaiman also talked about how he and Terry Pratchett had actually talked about a sequel and plotted it (it was supposed to be called 668 - The Neighbour of the Beast) but they never wrote it. And sadly Sir Terry has passed away since but before he did he asked Neil to bring Good Omens to TV and so he did and Neil always talks about how he is honouring Terry‘s wishes with the adaptation. So yes, while Neil didn’t write the book by himself, he is the only one alive to talk about it but he is also explicitly saying that what he’s doing with the TV show is what Terry would’ve wanted as well. And Terry‘s estate is also involved in making it so i‘m just trusting Neil‘s word that the story is what it always was supposed to be.

(can you tell i‘m very passionate about this)

[upbeat lake]

I'm only 30% through the book, but I'm loving it. I'm laughing a lot and highlighting a lot of quotes!

[tardy osprey]

good omens may be one of my most highlighted books lol

[upbeat lake]

It's very quotable!

[tardy harbor]

I read a bit of this but I can't seem to get into it, I'm gonna have to dnf for now

[normal marlin]

started reading today... finished eleven years ago: ||i love how neither side wants the antichrist to be well-educated, just indoctrinated. || it's very similar to the show. the adaptation stayed very faithful.

[normal marlin]

wednesday: || im glad we're getting to spend more time with the backstories of some of the characters that were sidelined or minimized in the show. reading the book kind of feels like watching the director's cut ||

[round fiber]

Saturday
|| > Don’t think of it as dying. Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.

this quote always gets me and i want it on my gravestone, thanks ||

[normal marlin]

thursday: || https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbm91aWZoMW1wamZ4eDEyMWt2eXBmYmF4emNjcGRvZzZ1cnk3bjQ1bSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/xuXc3kD8AeVaw/giphy-downsized-large.gif||

i wish discord was better at spoilering gifs... unless i just dont know how

[worthy bobcat]

Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the pope, and these nice red uniforms

[atomic knot]

thursday
||i love the way the characters are introduced it feels so natural to the story and even the minor ones feel real. adam blowing up nuclear factories or something with lemondrops in his sleep, wonder how long aziraphale (get an easier name or i’ll start calling you az ) and crowley will take to figure that out before the apparent end of the world||

[fallow seal]

I started to watch the show and I think it is really good! I like how they change a few things and the actors are amazing the pretty much captured everything that I imagined while reading the book.

[worthy bobcat]

Finished the book ._.

My goodreads review (Very minor spoilers for Friday and the Beginning of Saturday, one may or may not say)

I also hated some bits like ||Shadwell's whole ass character existing to be annoying and him undercutting the tension of the finale by being a dumbo|| (Final bit of Saturday)

[atomic knot]

friday
||i loved how the perspective changed from az reading the prophecies to the them to az to the witch army. there’s many characters and it’s a bit difficult to remember their backstory at times but it’s still so fun in every pov not az and crowley supporting the witch army though LOL||

[normal marlin]

finished... not much to say or add for a review other than i enjoyed the little bits of detail that were not in the show. it's a fun story overall

[atomic knot]

almost done with this i watched the trailer for the show and im so excited to start it today

[atomic knot]

saturday
|| i was laughing so hard, not the whole gang of characters just confusing the one guard and that guy who wanted to write letters LOL they kept coming one after another love how this was so not serious ughhh this book is AMAZING and crowley and az just chilling after the world almost ended ||

[atomic knot]

i’ll be moving to #1245034662321979402 now

[upbeat lake]

Thursday

||I weirdly feel bad for Dog. He's confused, doesn't want to go into the house that he's being dragged into... I think it's cause my lil' pup is sleeping next to me though lol. I don't like seeing her confused or upset. 😆||

[round fiber]

i‘m done

[drifting portal]

i just picked this up today, hoping to get to it as i’ve been stupid busy 🤦🏻‍♀️🫠

[empty forge]

Eleven years ago ||I can't believe they didn't mention Paganini in the musicians in hell||

[empty forge]

Same chapter ||Aziraphales Bible collection is actually so impressive I know that there is only a few copies left of the wicked Bible and he has several rare bibles||

[unkempt sierra]

In the beginning: ||Crawly is making me think of a spider instead of a demon ||

Eleven years ago: Okay I like the tone of this already

||The M25 truly is awful though||

||I regularly drive on the roads they mention and idk why but it feels a little bit weird||

||Yep, just randomly dropping Bohemian Rhapsody lyrics||

||A nun being a satanist, how scandalous||

||Why is he not suspicious af of this nun when she’s talking so strangely? Open your eyes man||

||Uh oh, baby mix up ||

||Same Crowley, sleep is great.||

||I know people ship Crowley/Aziraphale when it comes to the show so I’m going to be when it comes to their interactions in the book||

||Now how are you gonna call someone that you don’t really want to hang out with ‘my dear’? ||

[unkempt sierra]

||I don't like you but I'm going to spend my spare time with you type relationship. GIVE IT UP.||

[normal marlin]

to be fair it is || after like 6000 years together and they keep getting forced together by circumstance, i think it is explained. it's not just "i hate you, lets hang out" ||

[unkempt sierra]

||No I get that but they've done the whole 'we're enemies but you've been the one constant in my life for 6000 years so we're actually kinda friends'. It's cute.||

[normal marlin]

|| they basically have the same job also, so you know... common interests, shared hobbies... 😄 ||

[unkempt sierra]

it wouldn't surprise me at all if someone's done some fanart of them in a get along shirt tbh

[normal marlin]

haha yeah i think you can find all sorts of fanart and fanfic, they've been shipped since way before the show

[unkempt sierra]

Wednesday: ||I didn't realise a velocipede was a bicycle until I googled it so I was imagining like a dinosaur centipede hybrid ||

||A dog named Dog. Very practical.||

||Oooh, can Crowley not say words like godsend or blessing because he's a demon?||

[normal marlin]

|| he probably just doesnt want to be a hypocrite ||

[unkempt sierra]

possibly! ||I know it's demon lore in other stuff but different works have different rules||

||Them teasing each other over this bike repair is hella cute.||

[empty forge]

Eleven years ago page 65||Okay so I assume Scarlett, Sable, Mr.white and the unnamed another is the 4 horsemen||

[unkempt sierra]

I feel like out of the two I'm definitely more of an Aziraphale

Wednesday: Not to get political but I think generally there are quite a lot of people who only focus on what's in front of them and not the wider context of current events

[unkempt sierra]

||Ooh, a person not having an aura is pretty spoopy.||

||Also only 3 days left of the world? Imagine having that knowledge and trying to change it.||

[unkempt sierra]

Friday: ||I love all the weird stuff they're asking about to see if the world is ending.||

kindle what do you mean the next chapter will take 3 hours to read??

[magic ore]

kindle what do you
mean the next chapter will take
3 hours to read??

- abi(g egg)

[unkempt sierra]

Saturday: yep, red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning

my granddad lives by that

||Predicting your own death must be awful because you know it's going to happen and won't be able to avoid it||

I want to read more about witches in history tbh, especially the pendle witches

||is it confirmed if Agnes Nutter is meant to be related to the real life alleged witch Alice Nutter or is it just a nod to that?||

||Assuming Anathema Device is a nod to it as well||

||Okay the lore about contact with heaven is really interesting. I think the only media I've consumed that has that is Supernatural and this is completely different.||

||Talking to plants and scaring them is a mood I'm afraid||

||He's so worried about Aziraphale when the bookshop is on fire ||

[woeful jungle]

Starting the audiobook with Michael Sheen and David Tennant. Delightful

[unkempt sierra]

ooh I bet that's really fun!

[woeful jungle]

It's pretty good, it's full cast too

[unkempt sierra]

the best type of audiobook

[woeful jungle]

I actually don’t usually like full cast

[round fiber]

the full cast audio book is great! i also really enjoyed it

[unkempt sierra]

Saturday: ||hey four horsemen!||

||Newt asking if auras like black holes are bad what a silly question||

||Aziraphale wanting to see the best in people ||

||I wouldn't be surprised if this was indeed a test from god||

||Their goodbye 😦 don't leave each other guys||

||All vehicles having tape players just because you will it so is such a small but neat bit of magic/wish fulfilment||

Finished the long ass chapter

Sunday: ||Yay to saving the world though||

Do you think the sequel will ever see the light of day? I read that it's meant to be the basis for the final season so maybe? It sounds like it'll be pretty big in scope though based on what is hinted at in this chapter

||Heaven and hell against humanity sounds interesting. Like who would you root for in that instance?||

Finished! Will move over to the other thread.

[worthy bobcat]

I got that too, it's a whole thing

They're more like parts than chapters honestly

[round fiber]

yes the never written sequel is the basis for the final season of the tv show :)

[unkempt sierra]

I saw that but I’m just wondering if the actual book will be released or a novelisation of the third season or something

[round fiber]

nope, probably not.
Neil said he‘d write the book if the show wasn’t renewed but luckily it was

[woeful jungle]

Finished. Heading to other thread

[empty forge]

Finished Wednesday ||Im very excited to see where this is going now that they realized the switch up ||