Book Buying Advice?

[Mailman]

I've got a copy of Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. After reading some of Pratchett's comments in the book about Gaiman's other works I'm interested to know if they're any good, how they differ in style from Pratchett's, and which ones should I nab?

 

[dragomort]

They differ quite a bit in many ways really. I love Pratchett's quirkiness, but I prefer Gaiman's writing style by a large margin. I'd recommend just getting American Gods or Neverwhere for the 7 bucks or whatever it is in paperback and reading them to find out for yourself, or just previewing them at amazon or whatever to find out. His books are more self-contained and darker than the light-hearted Pratchett's work, but that's not a bad thing. He's definitely a high quality writer and more than worth the time to look at, imo. If you want a good fantasy book and haven't at least tried him out, you're doing yourself a disservice

 

[Lilitu]

Actually I don't know many of the Pratchett-books (actually only one Discworld novel) but I totally love Gaiman's books. My first book was "Neverwhere" which is a novelization of a tv-series with the same name but I saw the series after reading the book. I started with the Sandman-Comics (and loved them too).
In Gaiman's novels normal life meets quite unnormal things like an alternative hidden life as in "Neverwhere" (people living in "London Below"), ancient gods living amongst us and fighting against "new gods" as in "American Gods" also in "Anansi Boys", a girl finding an alternative "better" world as in "Coraline" or a boy living in a graveyard and being raised by ghosts as in "The Graveyard Book".