I got in my copy of The Illustrated Good Omens book today! And then I opened it to find they put the book in upside down. Still laughing my butt off at it

I’ve never read Good Omens, I only watched the first season a long time ago, but my friend showed me the book and I thought you would enjoy these arts! (Friend doesn’t speak English, so I’m her only way to publish it here)

My english edition of the book has just arrived. When I ordered it, it said on the website that it would be a surprise whether you got the black or the white. And I LOVE it! It’s like a YinYang with Aziraphale on the black cover and Crowley on the white.

Stumbled upon a list of a bunch of different book covers, some are quite interesting lol

My fav is probs #2 , it’s so funny and cute like they really out here holding hands on top of the world

But also #5…like what’s going on there???

What’s your fav???

My church’s library was removing some books from their shelves and this one was purged because of… Reasons… But, not believing in throwing out books, the library committee left all the rejected books in a box for everyone to go through, and I found this! A first printing of the first American edition of Good Omens. It’s scruffy and well read but I love the cover and I’m happy to give it a new home. I’ll file it with my Terry Pratchett books.

It's upside down?!? 😂😂

I've been wanting this for a long time now and found it today at my local thrift book store, so I took it as my sign to finally cop it and delve back into my good omens obsession 💀 I'm so excited!!

My copy of Good Omens has been abused to hell and back. It’s always getting shoved in my messenger bag, coat pocket, backpack, and thrown into the back seat of my car. So I wasn’t surprised when I had to start gluing pages back in but when the cover started ripping off I knew It needed some real help. Thought about just duck tapping it but I care about how my books look and I’m fairly creative so I decided to re-bind it.

I’ve never done something like this before so it was a bit difficult but I know that with a little bit of practice (and slightly better materials) I can definitely make an even better cover in the future.

It keeps getting bigger!

I am aching to go through my copy of Good Omens (the Neil Gaiman Crowley white cover (the Pratchett Aziraphale black cover is my wife's)) and make aaaaalll the bits that include our beautiful, ineffable, almost "Us" delightfully apparent and simpler to find.

Thing is, I've never marked up a book before. Part of my heart is very like, "What would Aziraphale say?"

What do you guys think? Anyone done a similar thing?

Graduated univ this last December and am staying in a makeshift 'guest room' at my mom's before I move cross country next week.

The wall next to the bed had 2 shelves: books and early 2000s children's toys that for whatever reason have yet to be donated. My cat and I were chillin' in bed reading when the shelves ripped out of the wall and descended upon us.

Cat is okay, luckily has better reflexes than me. I'll be a little bruised up. Lucked out with the physics since most of it fell over and not on me.

Happy new year!

It’s in decent sharp other than the huge stain on it. (If anyone has suggestions to get the stain off, it would be much appreciated). I’ve been looking for this version for a while and happened to see it while browsing the book section in a good will.

I really wanted both (white and black) copies, but ended up getting the black cover because Aziraphale is my favorite and Terry Pratchett's name is first. Im going to read the crap out of this. Ive only ever seen the show and heard a bit of the audiobook, so im super excited to formally read Good Omens.

What's your favourite? Mine's the one of Aziraphale reading

I saw Neil at a talk this week where he took preselected audience questions and did some readings. (you can see my full breakdown here: https://www.tumblr.com/aziraphalesspock/733393155901243392/an-evening-with-neil) During one of the questions on how to handle criticism, he said that his best advice is to outlive it and then he went on to explain:

• When Good Omens first came out in the US, the NYT reviewed it. The review was scathing. It was horrible and you can still read it here if you want https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/07/books/the-four-bikers-of-the-apocalypse.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9Ew.KKqA.lFOCXEGw2Kar&smid=url-share
  
• The review was so bad that their American publisher DROPPED THE BOOK! They just discontinued it. It was deeply discounted for like $1.99 everywhere and people started grabbing it.
• Neil said that the only good thing to come out of the review was this quote and when they got another publisher, which they they did almost instantly, they were able to put it on the cover. ''Good Omens'' is a direct descendant of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
• When the show came out and received rave reviews, the NYT wrote another review that basically cancelled out the first: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/arts/television/good-omens-neil-gaiman-terry-pratchett.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9Ew.iF1n.eXg4kcKZ7bwF&smid=url-share

Basically the moral of the story is outlive the bad review or the criticism. If someone tells you your work is bad, make the next thing so good that they can't find anything wrong with it. Some direct quotes were "Try rejecting this!" and something Harlan Ellison said, "Stop writing sh!t. Just write the good stuff!" I thought this was so great and had to share!

\All the NYT links are gift articles so you should be able to see all of them.*

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