Not in and of itself, but I'm not a pink kind of person and, when it comes to items you usualy only have one of (cell phones, bicycles, portable consoles...) I tend to steer clear of the pink variety, because I associate it with certain gender roles that I'm opposed to XD.
Haha, that's actually pretty cool. Come to think of it, I think the first book I read in English was Pratchett's Last Continent (Not counting Hannibal, which I borrowed from the library a year or two earlier but couldn't finish because I found it so boring)... I've gone out of my way to get his books in English ever since.
Well, I'm not very well-versed in Gaiman's style, but I could tell while reading that certain parts must've been Gaiman's, because they sure as hell weren't Pratchett's. One thing to keep an eye out for is, of course, those gory details. Say you've got a scene where someone dies. If the words are there to paint an elaborate scene of the death and/or the corpse, that's Gaiman. If the scene merely alludes to the death, that's most likely Pratchett. Pratchett's not a horror author, and seems to prefer to leave such things to the imagination of the reader, either because it's not his focus or because the readers are often so much better at scaring themselves than any author can accomplish. Gaiman, however, is much more at home with scaring with words rather than the lack of them. Two scenes to compare are the telemarketer deaths (definitely Gaiman) and the part where those biker guys ride their bikes into a pile of fish (very Pratchett-like)
I think the darker mood has a lot to do with Gaiman's influence, but also with the fact that it's set in a very real world (where very unreal things just happen to take place). And Pratchett certainly has it in him to write in darker shades - just look at Thud! and Night Watch - but I think that, at the time GO was written, much of that potential was yet to be uncovered in him. So, yeah. I'd blame most of the darkness on Gaiman. I'm not sure how much of the humour is solely Pratchett's, as the styles blend pretty seamlessly most of the time, but a lot of it seems to have his signature on it.
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Not in and of itself, but I'm not a pink kind of person and, when it comes to items you usualy only have one of (cell phones, bicycles, portable consoles...) I tend to steer clear of the pink variety, because I associate it with certain gender roles that I'm opposed to XD.Haha, that's actually pretty cool. Come to think of it, I think the first book I read in English was Pratchett's Last Continent (Not counting Hannibal, which I borrowed from the library a year or two earlier but couldn't finish because I found it so boring)... I've gone out of my way to get his books in English ever since.
Well, I'm not very well-versed in Gaiman's style, but I could tell while reading that certain parts must've been Gaiman's, because they sure as hell weren't Pratchett's. One thing to keep an eye out for is, of course, those gory details. Say you've got a scene where someone dies. If the words are there to paint an elaborate scene of the death and/or the corpse, that's Gaiman.
If the scene merely alludes to the death, that's most likely Pratchett. Pratchett's not a horror author, and seems to prefer to leave such things to the imagination of the reader, either because it's not his focus or because the readers are often so much better at scaring themselves than any author can accomplish. Gaiman, however, is much more at home with scaring with words rather than the lack of them. Two scenes to compare are the telemarketer deaths (definitely Gaiman) and the part where those biker guys ride their bikes into a pile of fish (very Pratchett-like)
I think the darker mood has a lot to do with Gaiman's influence, but also with the fact that it's set in a very real world (where very unreal things just happen to take place). And Pratchett certainly has it in him to write in darker shades - just look at Thud! and Night Watch - but I think that, at the time GO was written, much of that potential was yet to be uncovered in him. So, yeah. I'd blame most of the darkness on Gaiman. I'm not sure how much of the humour is solely Pratchett's, as the styles blend pretty seamlessly most of the time, but a lot of it seems to have his signature on it.