Valhalla Thundermuffin ([info]v_thundermuffin) wrote in [info]lower_tadfield,
@ 2008-04-30 22:02:00
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Current location:at home under the bed covers
Current mood: cheerful
Current music:by boys pretending to hiss like Crowley

What's Better Than Reading Good Omens....
What's better than reading Good Omens you ask? Is such a thing possible?
Why yes! After all, Miracles do happen from time to time.

What's better than reading Good Omens is reading Good Omens with your children for the very first time, and having them totally and delightfully GET IT! My boys, who online are known as Atilla (7) and Moriarty (10) just got done reading the first chapter with me. They loved it (especially my creepy attempt at making voices for Ligur and Hastur) and think that Crowley is just about as cool as cool can be. I'm so happy. When you have a book that you love and adore, you hope that some day you can share it with your offspring and that said offspring will actually love it the way you do. When that sort of miracle occurs, and for once, you are not totally L-A-M-E but rather the keeper of cool literary secrets it rocks on the sub-atomic level.

I just thought I'd share and see if anyone else is working on bringing another generation into the Cult of Tadfield.


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[info]hughes_maes
2008-05-01 04:28 am UTC (link)
Not old enough myself to be corrupting any youths of my own. XD However, I fully intend to bring up any children that may come my way with Good Omens.

Good work! :D <3

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[info]lynndyre
2008-05-01 04:36 am UTC (link)
Heee. Yay.

(and 'Moriarty' is a screenname made of win)

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[info]ferus_preliator
2008-05-01 04:47 am UTC (link)
I would just like to point out the awesomeness of your children having the screennames Atilla and Moriarty. :D
My daughter isn't old enough to understand Good Omens yet, but once she is, oh we shall commence the readings. :)

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[info]seularen
2008-05-01 08:43 am UTC (link)
IA: Atilla and Moriarty are epic handles.

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[info]vulgarweed
2008-05-01 05:04 am UTC (link)
I don't have kids, but a very dear longtime friend of mine does and tells me she read GO to her son, and he loved it too. (They'd already bonded on Harry Potter.)

I'm kind of socially inept with kids, so it's great to have something to talk about! (And OK, yeah, I did spend much of an afternoon "playing Hogwarts" with this boy some years back. XD)

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[info]comeshootwithme
2008-05-01 06:52 am UTC (link)
That is SO COOL. I have no offspring of my own but have taken on myself the literary education of some of my friends' children. They're a bit too young now (rather more in the range of the Hungry Caterpillar) but at one point, there will be Good Omens... I hope they'll love it as much as your kids.

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[info]twiyah
2008-05-01 09:31 am UTC (link)
Oh, I'll be doing that too, when the time comes. I was myself barely 11 when I read the book first time, and although my understanding of it was completely different from the current, I loved it very much. So, good luck, I think you've got good chances to make them real hooked in it :)

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[info]salzara_tirwen
2008-05-01 09:44 am UTC (link)
My nephew's only 2, but he will be receiving a copy of GO eventually.

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[info]quantum_witch
2008-05-01 01:51 pm UTC (link)
Wonderful :D Never converted a kid myself, but I did once convert someone with a kid, who then converted the kid. Not just GO but all of Discworld. So satisfying to know that a ten year old spent a whole summer pouring over Pratchett.

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[info]finmagik
2008-05-01 02:23 pm UTC (link)
You sound like a great Mom or Mum! :)

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[info]unrequited_rain
2008-05-01 03:27 pm UTC (link)
Not exactly another generation, but my brother is 9 years younger than I am and he's going to read it this year (I give him a pile of books every summer to read) He's already swept through most of Harry Potter, A Series of Unfortunate Events, the first three Prydain Chronicle books and a bunch of Star Wars novels :D

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[info]citharize
2008-05-01 07:02 pm UTC (link)
Awww, that's adorable! And good on you for reading to your children. My father did that for my brother and I until we were in our early teens-- it was a great bonding experience. I'm too young for kids yet, but I used to nanny for a family with a wonderful toddler. She was a bit too young for Good Omens, unfortunately (but her father and I kept teaching her Monty Python quotes as she was learning to talk).

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[info]mellonikan
2008-05-02 02:27 am UTC (link)
Awww... so cute! I don't have any kids (and won't have any for a loooong time!), but I just got a friend and her boyfriend into Good Omens~! YEEEY~! Maybe, if I'm cool enough, I can get her to join this community... >.>;; (and she's totally standing behind my back and somehow not reading I'm writing, too XDD;; )

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[info]hinna_koto
2008-05-02 03:50 am UTC (link)
:D!! That sounds deeply gratifying, I'm glad your kids have taken to it so much! XD I'm not planning to have kids, but I've already begun the GO campaign as soon as I finished reading it. Unfortunately, I'm not a very influential person, or else those I've enthusiastically suggested it to just...don't find it their cup of tea D: Or else they just don't read anything but romance X_x;

BUT I'LL CONTINUE ON WITH THE FIGHT! (rah rah!)

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[info]onoes_mischief
2008-05-02 08:54 pm UTC (link)
Aww, that's so cool! ♥ I don't have kids... but I did get my mom into Good Omens? Haha

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[info]sn00dle
2008-05-12 03:45 am UTC (link)
Heh I'm the opposite actually, forced my mum into reading it and she's lovin' it :D

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