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From Pterry's namedrop (). Listened to audio version (while cooking), it was not an entirely good audio version but it's got the job done.

It was a very old fairy tale in like 150 years ago London, and very cleverly mixed real world and dreamlike experience, and hid the real pain in the dreams. (this is why it's fairty tale isn't it, I really love children's literature. less pretentious, more kind. ) It is probably some metaphysics metaphor throughout, as the narrator character commented in the end. Maybe from the eyes of a nice, kind boy, the harsh world is like a dream and there's fun and light, and work is not a chore, and Right and Good is clear. uh I like children's lit.

wait pterry, your dedication is "My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine", are you, saying, Phantom of the Opera is Opera? oh, dearie.

Adorable short story *Sherlockian feels like having found their family*

Detective story spoiler alert

I started doubting the identity of the narrator from the note where it mentioned the Dynamics of an Asteroid, a clue that indicated the connection between only two people in the original stories. And then another piece of evidence emerged and convinced me of my guess ... guessing the twist right half a page ealier to the revealing is so. exciting. Playing detective in a detective story is such fun. Anyway it is an adorable remix in a parallel victorian age where humans are submitting themselves to the Things, like the intro said. The graphic design is also very lovely. Everything is a piece of clue!

I recognise a lot of Pratchett in this now, after two years of Discworld reading. A lot of themes in Discworld, aka Pterry's viewpoint of life universe and everything, is played out in the wording, plotting and worldbuilding of Good Omens too. It has the parrellel, mirroring and intertwining between sub-plotlines that feature in a lot of later Pratchett's work that I like very much. The difference between the tv adaptation and the book, I suppose, is also reasonable. It is as Pterry wrote in his review of the play adaptation of his novel Nation: the medium changes the story. It would be unfair to say which is better or worse. The important thing is, we can have the best of both worlds, isn't it? just like everyone in this story.