It's really bad. Good Omens was one of my all-time favorites, and it's ruined for me now. Granted, a lot of the charm in that novel was Pratchett, but you can read Pratchett without Neil's baggage. Granted, you still have to work through some of Pratchett's more problematic shit once you get deep enough into Discworld, but it's comparatively mild.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

I've read everything by Pratchett but have been putting off Omens for year, even before the gaiman allegations came out mainly because I cbf with another Christian mythology based story when I could just re-read a discworld banger, now I probably never will

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah I had sort of picked that up through insinuation, and I wasn't avoiding reading about it because I didn't want my opinion of a precious 'lil author spoiled but because it's like, well I don't need to learn the details of another saga of abuse and all the people and institutions that abetted it. Thanks for the tip on Discworld, I know people have a lot of love for Pratchett but I've never read any of him. I don't do a lot of fun reading these days but I'll keep it in mind.

[–] Scarry@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You don't have to read up on what he did in detail, you can just trust the fact that people now refer to him as the SA guy who also happened to write some books and move on

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

If you're sensitive to that kind of thing definitely avoid the descriptions of what he did they're so much worse than the(still extremely fucked) bulk of metoo cases