But on re-reading the book ahead of the release of the series, I realised that it doesn’t hold up quite as well as I thought. In it, he told Neil to make the tv adaptation of Good Omens. I didn’t read Good Omens as often, but like any true cult-classic fan, I held on to my much borrowed, much battered copy across two masters degrees, three jobs and three states. The last time Neil Gaiman saw Terry Pratchett before he died, Pratchett handed Gaiman a letter. There were other funny books, yes, but I already knew and loved Pratchett’s storytelling and the arc of his ethical universe-and that familiar mix of humour and earnestness was especially comforting at a time when my personal sense of right and wrong seemed at odds with the world around me. Humour was my only coping mechanism through depression, and reading Discworld made me laugh when little else did. Author of 1095 books including Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. When I went through a particularly bleak personal phase a couple of years later, rereading Discworld obsessively (especially the Witches and Vimes books) helped me feel like I hadn’t entirely lost the parts of myself that made me who I was-my nerdiness, my love for trivia and books, and my propensity for terrible puns and wordplay. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer.
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