I agree, I didn't read stuff like that when I was 11ish either. I grew up in a similar rural/semi-rural environment to those kids, and Terry I think, where you spend most of your time climbing trees, building dens, digging holes, fishing in streams and rescuing half-dead birds et cetera. Your whole life is pretty much filled with these occupations and being intellectual hardly ever gets a look in. Perhaps for short periods when relaxing in a newly constructed bunker.

I think Terry and Neil have merely expanded on this life-style and parodied a Famous Five/Swallows and Amazons-type scenario.

Nah, going to a privite school doesn't make you smarter. It's just mostly people who go to privite school care about their education, an the pubic school population is made up at least somewhat by people who are attending because it's the law

And I actually grew up in the sticks, as well. Acres of land behind my house before you ran into another, and that was a half-built, unoccupied one. There was a pond we went swimming in, and a swamp beyond that. Fun times with my sister...

But I see that no one agrees with me on this subject. (I've posted this thread on three messae boards, and haven't been agreed with once... >&gt

GOOD OMENS SPOILER WARNING!

Hi, as im new here on this board just thought id add tyhis little gem of info up, should make some people happy, well it did me http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/...Pratchett.html

Except that from PTerry, the possibility of a sequel sounds a lot more unlikely than from Neil Gaiman.
The new cover is nice.

Can anyone with an early edition of Good Omens check something for me, please (I cannot find my early edition)? As I remember it, when Sable signs his name it is referred to as "seven letters, rhymes with examine" thus giving rise to the in-joke in Maskerade about having to engrave a page again because "Mr Cripslock has spelled famine with seven letters". In the new edition of Good Omens I have, it says "six letters, rhymes with examine", rather killing the joke. Am I imagining things, or has some mad editor been at work between editions?

Well, if it led to a joke in Good Omens, then Ba could see being upset about them changing it. But it's a mistake that was made fun of in another, unrelated book. Most likely, PTerry or Mr. Gaiman wanted it to be correct for future editions. Nothing wrong with that. Most people wouldn't make the connection in any case, without checking the Annotated Pratchett File.

I have a 1990 edition, and it only has 6 letters... But I guess the joke in Maskerade still works..

The joke in Maskerade only works if you have the Good Omens Typo, but if not you don't really mis out on anything.

I had another thought on the kids: they do act like I imagine eleven year olds to, but I don't know a whole lot of them. Are either Gaiman or Pratchett parents? That could explain a lot.

I think they are both parents, I know for certain that Terry has a daughter called Rhianna.

http://www.terrypratchettbooks.org/d..._biography.php

And that is so unfair, because Rhianna was on our list of names for future children before I even knew that, and now I can't use it or I'll look like some crazy fanatic person... (which I am not, of course...)

You pregnant, Kat?

Naming your daughter Rhianna isn't crazy/fanatical Naming her Esmerelda might be pushing it, however.

My brother used to have a girlfriend called Esmerelda, well it was Esme actually - sounds like Ezmay - which is short for Esmerelda.