When Terry Pratchett leaked that a Good Omens TV mini-series was in development our reaction was to wait the news out a little bit. If the project evaporated, or was just patently false, then time would bear that out. If the project was a go, time would also bear that out.
Behold the bearing out! Digital Spy recently sat down with Good Omens co-writer Neil Gaiman to discuss the adaptation. You can watch the whole thing below.
Stubby the Rocket is the mascot of Tor.com and everything in its tape deck also turns into Queen, except mostly by conscious choice.
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I need to read this again. I read it during a period in which I only had a few minutes a day to read, and it took me over a month. That was a mistake. In general, I find that I need to read longer, denser, more atmospheric novels over the course of a few days. Dragging them out kills the novel’s momentum, and what could be an immersive experience turns into a slog. That was certainly the case with The Little Stranger.
I’ve read her Victorian ones but not her 20th century ones. Sounds like I need to read both Night Watch and Little Stranger. I approached her Affinity like it was a genre novel & got really drawn in.
Benjamin_oc: I read it both times in pretty much one day — I think there are books that work reading them slowly, and books that don’t. Interesting to hear this is one of the latter.
I thought this book did a great job of illustrating the change in British society for a rigid class structure to something more egalitarian–more like America. Usually books that talk about class focus on the poor and what it would mean to them to be on a more even footing. I liked that this book focused on what a shift towards a more even playing field does to people who have had money and status handed down through the centuries. Let’s face it, the Ayreses are completely unable to support themselves in the manner they were raised. They have no skills and no business acumen. The contrast between Roderick and the neighbor who made a fortune on his own is done particularly well.
This book reminded me a lot of Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”. Maybe it was Roderick’s name that did it to me.
I took this in through the audiobook version, which was beautifully done for the most part, although Roderick was voiced to sound so much like an old man that I got the completely wrong impression of him.i
I love it when you feature genre-bending books like this. Waters has a huge following in the book blogosphere and it this book is a fabulous read. I hope many of Tor’s readers will give it a shot.
Jo, in re haunted house stories, have you read Julio Cortázar’s short story “House Taken Over”? Originally published in Argentina in 1944 according to Google (“Casa Tomada”), but available in translation; I saw it in Manguel’s first excellent Black Water anthology. Is it symbolic or is it real? I read it several years ago and still cannot quite decide.