I nearly always prefer to read the books before I watch/listen to a dramatisation. But… because I’d not read the book, I didn’t actually listen to it. They had lots of great names in it – and the authors both had cameos. In December 2014 there was a big glitzy Radio 4 dramatisation of the book. Despite now owning a copy, I still didn’t quite get around to reading it. Neil Gaiman had perhaps been in, because my copy was stickered as “Signed by the author” and he had signed it (Terry Pratchett hadn’t). I don’t know exactly when it was – perhaps around 2001 or 2002 – but I finally bought a copy of the paperback at Borders in Oxford Street. I suspect that it was university that got in the way, and I didn’t read it. So I knew who the writers were, and I shoe have been a shoe-in to read it then. The book was published in 1990, and at that point I’d read both comics written by Neil Gaiman, and at least the first Discworld book. Good Omens is one of those books that has somehow slipped past me for thirty years… until now.
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