The one who wrote Coraline, and co-wrote the book of Good Omens and made the TV show, also the Sandman comics writer and co-creator who made the Sandman TV show. Quite nice really.
i recently found out about the new season of good omens and figured, what the heck, might as well read the book for the first time. (love the book, by the way.) i haven't read an actual novel in a couple years now, but have started annotating on the pages to make the experience a little more interesting. my mother is... well, definitely not thrilled that i'm marking up your book.
so, what are your thoughts on people annotating novels? for or against?
Your book, your rules. Once you buy the book it’s yours and you are allowed to do anything you want to it.
I personally have two copies. The white copy with Crowley on the front upon which Neil is listed as the first author is marked to Hell and back and has been bent and bruised in a way that I prefer to call “well loved.” My black copy with Aziraphale on the cover upon which Terry is listed first went straight from the bookstore shelf to my shelf and has not left there since except on the few occasions I have removed it to take photographs.
It’s also worth noting here that these are not my original two copies of Good Omens. I first read Good Omens in my freshman year of high school when I checked it out from my public library (support libraries) and subsequently went out and bought both copies (the same editions I have now) of the book from the book store with money that may or may not have been acquired in a completely legal way from my parents. Of that set, Neil’s went up in flames in a freak accident and Terry’s was inexplicably lost in my move to college.
The unfortunate result is that my current pair of copies has those awful “soon to be a TV series” and “now a TV series” stickers respectively, even though I purchased them at the same time from the same bookstore. On occasion, it makes me believe I appear to be a fake fan, and I have to remind myself that all Good Omens fans are Good Omens fans, even those that read the books after watching the series and those that have never read the books at all.
