Geeky Joy :)

[denny]

Last night I met up with a friend and retrieved the books and graphic novels they'd taken to the recent Neil Gaiman signing at Forbidden Planet for me (I couldn't go, due to the amazingly stupid virtual golf work social outing).

In my copy of Good Omens, already signed by Terry Pratchett with the advice "Burn This Book", Neil has added on the facing page "Apply Holy Match Here" and an arrow to the corner of the page under Terry's signature.

In my copy of Neverwhere, he wrote 'Mind The Gap' :)

In my copy of one of the Death graphic novels, he wrote "Try not to die", which is obviously good advice and I'll try to take it on board.

In the other Death graphic novel, he's added a speech balloon to the painting of Death inside the cover. She's saying "Hello Denny" :)

This is far from all the Gaiman stuff I own, but they're four of my favourites, and I didn't want to take the piss by asking him to sign all the other stuff too. The original Death mini-series was my introduction to his work and I still love it. Good Omens is easily the best thing Pratchett has ever written, so that must be Neil's influence. Neverwhere is nothing short of amazing - it only narrowly misses being my favourite book, and I've re-read it a dozen times in the last few years.

Comments

[aca.livejournal.com]

Sweet. Love the icon, btw. :)

Oh, and hello. I'm adam on #london.pm, in case you'd not worked that out yet.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

The icon was heinously thieved from somewhere or other - feel free to do the same if you think you'd have use for it.

And yes, I had figured out your sekrit identity :)

[aca.livejournal.com]

*makes with the theiving*

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

dah! World-shrinkage.

[aca.livejournal.com]

I know London Gothdom and London Geekdom. There is more overlap than not, from what I can tell. :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I suspect my connection is still mostly London Piedom, but I take your point.

[preachermuaddib.livejournal.com]

In my copy of one of the Death graphic novels, he wrote "Try not to die", which is obviously good advice and I'll try to take it on board.

!?

He wrote the same thing on mine!

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming it's a quote from the story, but I haven't read it for a while so I can't be sure :)

[antihope.livejournal.com]

Heh, I love Terry Pratchett. The books are my boyfriend's. I think he owns ever one of his paperbacks. Not sure.

I even got some German Audiobooks to listen to, so I can practice listening. They're challenging, but fun. =)

[snoof.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I've been jonesing to reread Neverwhere, but all I can seem to find until I get my books unpacked and sorted is my copy of American Gods. I hope I didn't leave it at mst's house; I nicked that off my Scottish ex, damn it. Hard work went into owning it.

[reddragdiva]

"In my copy of Good Omens, already signed by Terry Pratchett with the advice "Burn This Book", Neil has added on the facing page "Apply Holy Match Here" and an arrow to the corner of the page under Terry's signature."

That being precisely what they did in our copy ;-)

[earle.livejournal.com]

Teh winnar!