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S'està carregant… Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witchde Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
  
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 Fence | Jan 5, 2021 |  What happend when Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman cooperate? You get a novel at the very limit of ironical humour. The story is as follows: A dark and stormy night, or actually, not a very dark, nor stormy, nor night, three very similar children are born in a small hospital. One of them is Antichrist and the satanic nuns caring about the hospital exchange him to raise as his own. Not everything goes as planned though and we get a story where the heavenly agent and the demonic agent together try to figure out how to keep their nice agent jobs at Earth. Borderline five stars. Recommended to anyone that can handle thick doses or irony and don't mind kicks at religion and any other topic that is sacred. (  ) bratell | Dec 25, 2020 | I liked this one quite a bit, but gave it only 3 stars due to the sheer length of this book. It really didn't need to be as long as it was. And as funny as it was as a whole, the end was so draggy that I kept making myself read to see how it all came together. The apocalypse shouldn't drag out as much as it did. heh. I'm also not entire impressed with how all of the loose ends came together - I didn't care about some of the story lines and some of the others were a bit too convenient. But overall, great concept and it made me giggle out loud. Gaimen and Pratchett fans will like this one. (  ) JustZelma | Dec 20, 2020 | Really enjoyed this story, although I questioned myself for starting a book about the apocalypse, during an apocalyptic time, in the end I thoroughly enjoyed the way the story played out, and the delightfully rich characters. I will have to watch the TV thing they made, now. (  ) Vividrogers | Dec 20, 2020 | I was expecting better. I was disappointed. ( ) Chica3000 | Dec 11, 2020 |
 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.  ''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. 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." Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsTé l'adaptacióAbreujat aÉs una resposta a
The world is preparing to come to an end according to the Divine Plan recorded in the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded 1655). Meanwhile, a fussy angel and a fast-living demon have grown fond of living among the earth's mortals for many millennia and are not looking forward to the apocalypse. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they must find and kill the Antichrist. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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And I’m delighted to report that I still adore it.
The basic plot concerns the end of the world, as per the bible. The antichrist has been born and the forces of heaven and hell are about to battle it out, destroying the earth and all its inhabitants at the same time. Only problem is that no one quite seems to know where the antichrist has gotten to.
And it is brilliant.
I can’t help but picture Adam as a Just William sort of character, updated a little as he is living in the 90s1 but he feels as though he comes from an earlier Britain. A fact that is even commented on by some of the characters in the book.
And the four horsepersons of the apocalypse as great, as are the Hells Angels bikers and their wonderful nicknames.
I do wonder quite how the technology of the 90s will translate into the adaptation if they set it in modern times. Although maybe they’ll leave the setting alone, who knows.
It is laugh out loud entertainment, and if you’ve enjoyed any of Pratchett or Gaiman’s work and haven’t given this a go you really need to. (