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Good Omens

de Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman (Autor), Terry Pratchett (Autor)

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Winner of the Audiophile Magazine Earphones Award.

The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.

"Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It's a wow. It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick."??Washington Post
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.

So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon??both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle??are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist .… (més)

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Es mostren 1-5 de 781 (següent | mostra-les totes)
Until this book, I didn't know that laughing out loud while reading was a thing people did in real life. Now I know. ( )
  Belbo713 | Mar 6, 2024 |
Haven't laughed out loud this much since I read Fool. A great piece of work. ( )
  wsampson13 | Mar 2, 2024 |
I love Good Omens and I love this UK edition. Such a funny, witty, cute, and yet thought provoking book. It’s a love story and critique of humanity wrapped up in a hilarious metaphor. Great author, great writing, easily re-readable, this is probably my favorite book of all time. ( )
  ZL10 | Feb 29, 2024 |
A high school favorite. I haven't reread it since maybe 2010 but I knew exactly which parts of the miniseries were direct quotes. ( )
  caedocyon | Feb 26, 2024 |
This book was a make me happy read. I dare you to stop a smile from creeping to your lips while reading it. It's got funny old humans, fantasy mixed with the mundane, and it's a little profound in parts. It's exactly what I'd expect from Pratchett and Gaiman. ( )
  rabbit-stew | Dec 31, 2023 |
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The book tackles things most science fiction and fantasy writers never think about, much less write. It does it in a straightforward manner. It's about Predestination and Free Will, about chaos and order, about human beings, their technology and their belief systems. When the book is talking about the big questions, it's a wow. It leaves room in both the plot and the reader's reactions for the characters to move around in and do unexpected but very human things.
afegit per Shortride | editaThe Washington Post, Howard Waldrop (Web de pagament) (Dec 20, 1990)
 
''Good Omens'' is a direct descendant of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,'' a vastly overpraised book or radio program or industry or something that became quite popular in Britain a decade ago when it became apparent that Margaret Thatcher would be in office for some time and that laughs were going to be hard to come by...

Obviously, it would be difficult to write a 354-page satirical novel without getting off a few good lines. I counted four... But to get to this material, the reader must wade through reams and reams of undergraduate dreck: recycled science-fiction cliches about using the gift of prophesy to make a killing in the stock market; shopworn jokes about American television programs (would you believe the book includes a joke about ''Have Gun, Will Travel''?); and an infuriating running gag about Queen, a vaudevillian rock group whose hits are buried far in the past and should have been buried sooner.
afegit per SnootyBaronet | editaNew York Times, Joe Queenan (Nov 7, 1990)
 
When a scatterbrained Satanist nun goofs up a baby-switching scheme and delivers the infant Antichrist to the wrong couple, it's just the beginning of the comic errors in the divine plan for Armageddon which this fast-paced novel by two British writers zanily details... Some humor is strictly British, but most will appeal even to Americans "and other aliens."
afegit per Shortride | editaPublishers Weekly (Jul 20, 1990)
 

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Pratchett, TerryAutorautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Gaiman, NeilAutorautor principaltotes les edicionsconfirmat
Pratchett, TerryAutorautor principaltotes les edicionsconfirmat
Aquan, Richard L.Dissenyador de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Arak, HelenEditorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Astrachan, MichaelAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Briggs, StephenNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Carroll, JackNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Cornner, HaydnAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Ferrer, MaríaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Frampton, DavidIl·lustradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Fusari, LucaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Gałązka, JacekTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Horváth, NorbertTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Ittekot, VenugopalanTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Jarvis, MartinNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Kantůrek, JanTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Kidby, PaulAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Kidby, PaulIl·lustradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Lew, BettyDissenyadorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Lindforss, PeterTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Marcel, PatrickTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Morrill, RowenaAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Ring, JonathanAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Sheen, MichaelNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Sinkkonen, MarjaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Smith, DouglasAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Tennant, DavidNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Ward, GrahamAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
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5. Buggre Alle this for a Larke. I amme sick to mye Hart of typefettinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges noe more than a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I tell you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half an oz. of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Sunneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the liuelong daie inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe. @ *"AE@;!*
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"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life," and read:

25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying Where is the flaming sword which was given unto thee?

26 And the Angel said, I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget me own head next.

27 And the Lord did not ask him again.

It appears that these verses were inserted during the proof stage. In those days it was common practice for printers to hang proof sheets to the wooden beams outside their shops, for the edification of the populace and some free proofreading, and since the whole print run was subsequently burned anyway, no one bothered to take up this matter with the nice Mr. A. Ziraphale, who ran the bookshop two doors along and was always so helpful with the translations, and whose handwriting was instantly recognizable.
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This work represents the book Good Omens. Please note that there is an unabridged audiobook edition, the narrators of which include Michael Sheen and David Tennant; please be careful not to combine this work with any adaptation (such as the TV adaptation starting Michael Sheen and David Tennant).
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Winner of the Audiophile Magazine Earphones Award.

The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.

"Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It's a wow. It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick."??Washington Post
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.

So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon??both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle??are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist .

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