we've got into a filming location for
today because it's what time is it 10 19
at night when I'm filming this video and
it's dark out and I didn't feel like
figuring out my ridiculous lighting
setup that I usually have in my videos
that I film at night also me and China
Scott finish watching The Amazing Race
finale so I'm a heart pumping from all
that adrenaline that's great I'm not
gonna ruin it if you haven't seen it you
should go watch it prime TV some really
really good TV I've been watching The
Amazing Race since I was like I don't
even know since the very beginning with
my family anyways this video is not
about that hello YouTube so it is the
end of another month which means that
today's video is a book of the month
video and this month I have been reading
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry
Pratchett if you're new here hello my
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the video so if you have not watched my
most recent video from last Sunday I
talked about my opinions about Good
Omens the TV show Good Omens the TV show
is based off of this book by Neil Gaiman
and Terry Pratchett which I had heard of
many many years ago and then never read
and then when I heard the TV show was
becoming a thing because it had David
Tennant in it that was why I watched it
but I just still enjoy it a lot anyway
and then as soon as I finished watching
the show I was like I am going to go
read bailments I really really enjoyed
it the show made me want to read the
book and the book is hilarious just in
the same kind of way that the show is
because the show was written by Neil
Gaiman who is one of the authors of the
book so you had like his voice
throughout the entire thing which I
really loved and helped to make the book
enjoyable to read I read a fictional
book in a while and it was really good
to get back into it with this book in
particular Neil Gaiman and Terry
Pratchett both wrote this book together
Terry Pratchett died I don't even
remember exactly when so when this show
was becoming a thing it's been in
process for a very very long time and
then finally came to fruition in 2019
Neil Gaiman wanted to make it a show for
a very long time they're trying to
figure out many many ways to do it and
how they could translate this book that
has a lot to it into a TV series so in
that regard there are exact
from the book in the TV show which I
really liked about it because sometimes
with book to film and TV adaptations
they change a lot of things case in
point
Harry Potter Twilight Hunger Games John
Green's books and he booked a TV
adaptation they change a lot of things
because it's not usually the person who
wrote the book writing for the TV or
film adaptation but with this because it
was Neil Gaiman writing it he lunar he
said okay I could do whatever I want
with this I'm going to take these scenes
like whatever he decided to do with
writing and he took exact scenes from
the book and put it into into the TV
show so the book has a very interesting
way of telling the story through adness
and Nutter who is the nice and accurate
prophecies of Agnes Nutter which one of
the characters in the book that the TV
show doesn't have because it feels like
you're reading the book from a
researchers point of view who is going
like here's Agnes lender's book this is
the information I'm taking from it here
are how these characters are
interpreting it and now here we go
here's this plot device and everything
that we have in here whereas with the
show you have a narrator of God played
by Frances McDorman who you don't see it
all just a speaking voice throughout the
entire thing she like has the voice from
the book because she's narrating
everything from the book but then it
becomes like oh this is God telling you
what happened to a CFL Crowley Gabriel
Adam the dog everything in the book and
it makes it a different kind of
perspective so you get two different
ways of telling this story from the book
and from the movie and I think they're
both really well done on these first few
pages of the book it has a character
breakdown the people of the supernatural
beings humans everybody else is in there
like all the different characters so
because there's a lot of people in this
book it's really helpful to keep track
of it so there's definitely times when
evil comes like okay I don't agree
exactly who this person is let me just
flip back to this little directory in
the beginning to be like okay this is
how they fit into the story and then go
back into it and hopes to really
understand the book even more within the
book as well you get a little bit more
backstory on all the characters that the
show probably had to cut out which I
really loved because then you get like
more perspective on the characters and
their different parts of their journey
throughout the entire story and how it
gets to the point of Armageddon that it
gets to in the show because there's only
six
the show currently I don't know if
they're doing the second season so it
kind of gets at that point in the last
episode and you have to go okay this is
where the book took in like 300 pages
and there was a lot more backstory in
some of the characters but you get a lot
more at the CFL a lot more with Crowley
a lot more specifically with an MMO
device and the Pulsifer new Pulsifer
there are some footnotes at the bottom
of some of the pages of the book which
is really good because one it lends a
lot to the woody humor that Neil Gaiman
brings into the book and gives you his
kind of interpretation of some of the
things that are said they're very like
British colloquialisms and things that
need to kind of be cleared up to like an
American audience slash length just to
anybody who's reading the book as well
just to make you think very specific and
then it also shows like his humor his
sardonic way of talking his way miss
with everything he's talking about I
also really enjoyed thinking about how
the book separated things into chapters
and like storytime lines that the show
differently because obviously the show
has to break it into our long episodes
whereas the book has as much time as
they want to have to be like okay we can
make this chapter here be like 10 pages
long or it can be 200 pages long and
there's a lot more time for them to
expand on the characters in those
specific chapters going back to it
afterwards with the show you know gamo
is able to feel like okay I have all
this information here and I can cut it
down to the visible but had that be this
part of an episode so for me reading it
from that kind of perspective of
watching the show before reading the
book and then going into the book it was
easier for me to be like okay this is
where this episode ended and this one
started okay now I know where this
character is because of what I read
before what I'm reading what I saw one
of the things that I really loved about
reading the dome ins in public in
particular was that so many people
commented on it and we're like oh my god
I love that book is your first time
reading it oh did you know there's a
show about it I was like yeah I watch
the show and maybe want to read the book
they were like oh man it's such a good
book you're gonna love it especially if
you've seen the show so there's a huge
cult following behind it omens they
talked a little bit about it in the
foreword as well that people came up to
Neil humanitary project with are copies
of the book that we're like completely
destroyed and used because they'd read
it so many times and giving it to
someone
different people so it's a very
well-loved book which I really
appreciate about it especially because
reading about their journey that it took
to get to become a TV show it took so
many years for to become like any kind
of film based thing that Neil Gaiman put
someone to love and hard work into after
Terry practic diet specifically as well
it has so much love in it which is a
really good thing it reminds me a lot of
Harry Potter that there's like so much
love behind the books and when the
movies came out we came even more of a
phenomenon that just like people really
appreciate it and want to see it
continue so that's all I have for you
guys today
for my book of the month if you have
read bit of omens let me know what you
think about it in the comments down
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