authors Gaiman,Pratchett, & HP religion etc.

[Johanna B. Laite]

No: HPFGUIDX 988

heidi  wrote:
Subject: somewhat OT: Gaiman

> He also wrote a terrifically funny book with Terry Pratchett called
> Good Omens

Finally sone else here has mentioned MY favorite author, Terry
Pratchett.  I read all of Pratchett first - LOL on every book - then
Gaiman - Good Omens is terrific.  All that wizard stuff led me to HP. 
And BTW,  Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman is NOT funny like Good Omens.  I
didn't really "like" it at the time I read it, but nevertheless I
couldn't put Neverwhere down.  :-)  I need to read all of Pratchett
again because I can't answer half the stuff on the trivia quizzes on
those E-groups.  

If you enjoy seeing religion satirized and pretty well chewed up and
spit out along with delightful magical powers, try Parke Godwin's 
"Waiting for the Galactic Bus" and the small sequel "The Snake Oil Wars
(or Scheherazade Ginzberg Strikes Again)".  Yes, that's really the
title.  Had to get out the book to spell that!  Earth's Heaven and Hell
are called Topside and Below Stairs and are the creation of a couple of
intergalactic teenage brothers who are part of a race of immortals. 
They miss the "bus" to take them back to school after a holiday on
prehistoric Earth and give Earth's current simians a bit of a boost. 
:-).  Pratchett's best book to tear up religion is "Small Gods"  he
leaves no religion untouched.  You can find a parallel to almost any
religion on Earth in there somewhere.

Along the lines of religion, this was probably discussed by those on the
list way back, it is interesting to me to note that neither religion nor
any form of church has  been even hinted at to my knowledge.  If there
was a good discussion of this on earlier E-mails (more than the last
couple of weeks) point me to which Month or which list and I'll read
that first.  I'm on ALL the adult HP lists, I think but just starting to
catch up with current posts.

Johanna Laite

-- 
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                                  Terry Pratchett -  Maskerade