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quantum_witch proposed a meme, so here 'tis.
When did you lose your “Good Omens” virginity, and how (read the book, online, in the gutter)? If you read the book first, do you still have that particular copy?
Pretty sure it was in '90 or '91, purchased in hardcover at the SF/F bookstore in the little Ohio town where I was in college at the time. A precipitous percentage of my pagan punk posse were big Sandman fans and anything The Neil did was cool with us. As a recent Bible Belt escapee, I responded immediately. I identified very much with Anathema, too, as a bookish young witch out to save the world. (Maybe I'm glad there was no Hermione Granger yet! :D) No, I have no idea where that copy went - that was more than 15 years and many more moves than that ago.
How many copies of the book do you now own? What publications, countries, cover image, etc.? Any special reason you bought those particular ones?
Two - the orange American one and the black Corgi one. (I bought the second one because I'd had the first signed and needed an abusable reference copy; also I wanted a British edition so I took the opportunity to buy one in Toronto.)
What is/are the condition(s) of your book(s)? If you have a very battered copy, what does it look like and how did it get that way?
Both pretty good condition, amazingly enough. I was trained early on to hold my books in such a way so as not to break the spine.
Any copies autographed? By both authors or just one? Was it signed with anything other than the standard “Have a Nice Doomsday” or “Burn This Book”? If you have other copies not signed, do you plan to get autographs when the opportunity is presented?
My copy of the orange one is signed by Neil; it says "Burn This Book". If I get a chance to get it signed by Terry too, I surely will.
Do you take notes about the contents, either in a notebook on inside the book itself?
Nope, don't need to. :)
Have you ever loaned out a copy and never got it back? Have you ever given away a copy to someone who hasn’t read it before? What have been their reactions (i.e. total conversion, “meh, it was all right”, declared it heresy and de-friended you, etc.)?
No, I don't think I have (unless that's what happened to the first one; no idea). I used to do that all the time with Little, Big by John Crowley - I'd snap up a copy every time I saw it in a used bookstore, because it tended to go out of print a lot, so I've owned tons of copies of it and given away several. GO has never been out of print though, so I've never felt the need to hoard it or distribute it for charity. :D
Where does your book stay? (i.e. on a shelf with other books, beside your bed, in a backpack, enshrined with candles, etc.)
On shelves. Currently the orange one is sitting a top of a cheap (and not very good) translation of the Holy Qur'an, and the black one is between Conversational Portuguese and Phil Hines's Condensed Chaos.
Tell me anything else fun about your book(s) that hasn’t already been asked.
The little black one has been to Thailand and Malaysia with me. I almost gave it to my mom when I went home a week earlier than she did and she'd need something to read--but I was too selfish. (I gave her a Morgan Llewellyn and a Guy Gavriel Kay instead, so it's not like she got totally ripped off.)
go_exchange assignments will be going out tomorrow. More on this more officially later.quantum_witch proposed a meme, so here 'tis. When did you lose your “Good Omens” virginity, and how (read the book, online, in the gutter)? If you read the book first, do you still have that particular copy?
Pretty sure it was in '90 or '91, purchased in hardcover at the SF/F bookstore in the little Ohio town where I was in college at the time. A precipitous percentage of my pagan punk posse were big Sandman fans and anything The Neil did was cool with us. As a recent Bible Belt escapee, I responded immediately. I identified very much with Anathema, too, as a bookish young witch out to save the world. (Maybe I'm glad there was no Hermione Granger yet! :D) No, I have no idea where that copy went - that was more than 15 years and many more moves than that ago.
How many copies of the book do you now own? What publications, countries, cover image, etc.? Any special reason you bought those particular ones?
Two - the orange American one and the black Corgi one. (I bought the second one because I'd had the first signed and needed an abusable reference copy; also I wanted a British edition so I took the opportunity to buy one in Toronto.)
What is/are the condition(s) of your book(s)? If you have a very battered copy, what does it look like and how did it get that way?
Both pretty good condition, amazingly enough. I was trained early on to hold my books in such a way so as not to break the spine.
Any copies autographed? By both authors or just one? Was it signed with anything other than the standard “Have a Nice Doomsday” or “Burn This Book”? If you have other copies not signed, do you plan to get autographs when the opportunity is presented?
My copy of the orange one is signed by Neil; it says "Burn This Book". If I get a chance to get it signed by Terry too, I surely will.
Do you take notes about the contents, either in a notebook on inside the book itself?
Nope, don't need to. :)
Have you ever loaned out a copy and never got it back? Have you ever given away a copy to someone who hasn’t read it before? What have been their reactions (i.e. total conversion, “meh, it was all right”, declared it heresy and de-friended you, etc.)?
No, I don't think I have (unless that's what happened to the first one; no idea). I used to do that all the time with Little, Big by John Crowley - I'd snap up a copy every time I saw it in a used bookstore, because it tended to go out of print a lot, so I've owned tons of copies of it and given away several. GO has never been out of print though, so I've never felt the need to hoard it or distribute it for charity. :D
Where does your book stay? (i.e. on a shelf with other books, beside your bed, in a backpack, enshrined with candles, etc.)
On shelves. Currently the orange one is sitting a top of a cheap (and not very good) translation of the Holy Qur'an, and the black one is between Conversational Portuguese and Phil Hines's Condensed Chaos.
Tell me anything else fun about your book(s) that hasn’t already been asked.
The little black one has been to Thailand and Malaysia with me. I almost gave it to my mom when I went home a week earlier than she did and she'd need something to read--but I was too selfish. (I gave her a Morgan Llewellyn and a Guy Gavriel Kay instead, so it's not like she got totally ripped off.)
