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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)
midnightbex: Dealing with a similar end of the world theme, The Gates tells an entirely different but equally hilarious story about the apocalypse. As an added bonus, there is also the occasional amusing and often diverting foot note to look forward to.
ChillnND: I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman style comedy fantasy and I found Barking Mad to be not dissimilar in its level of wit and humor combined with the supernatural/fantasy genre. Barking aims a bit more at good-natured parody of Agatha Christie and similarly styled mysteries. I looked forward to every minute of reading it and hope the author gives us some more Spiffington mysteries.… (més)
Good Omens written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman back when they weren't New York Times best selling authors, could be considered a direct descendant of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Monty Python's The Life of Brian. In fact, I wholeheartedly agree with the Phoenix New Times: It does read like the Book of Revelation as penned by Monty Python's Flying Circus. Its farcical and satirical nature, whereby the storytellers poke fun at Christianity, reminds me of The Life of Brian. Like that film, Good Omens uses elements of Christianity to slyly critique human nature, and it did make me giggle out loud a bit (but not as often as predicted, some jokes weren't that funny). It also gave me some things to really think about and chew on....mainly the fact that Hieronymous Bosch (one of my favorite artists) was a weirdo. huh. Never thought about that before!
Whats it about? ''Good Omens'' is a novel that deals with the efforts of a London-based angel named Aziraphale and a demon named Crowley trying to prevent Armageddon from taking place on the following weekend, as predicted in a book written by a 17th-century witch. Its a fun romp whose central theme deals with the question of humanity's capability to deal with the distinction between right and wrong. Oh and it deals with two kids, one of which, might just be the Antichrist.
For fans of: Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, The Book of Genesis, The Book of Revelation.
Not for: Fundamentalists Christians, fans of The Book of Genesis, The Book of Revelation, folks without a sense of humor regarding issues of morality/Christianity, and perhaps, Buddhists.
P.S.- I'm very much looking forward to the TV show in 2019. ( )
I liked it. It was entertaining, funny and thoughtful. It was a bit heavy handed in places, and nearly lost me in the very long and cheesy wrap up chapters. I got a few good laughs out of it and would recommend it to anyone with a sense of humor about the metaphysical. ( )
Such a fun read! Comical, absurd, and even left me with some deeper questions to think about as the story came to a close. It is pretty complex for what it is. The best way I can describe it is... at times I felt I was in the middle of a Monty Python sketch, and at times a Sam Raimi horror film.
Fans of either author are sure to love this book. I personally have read very little Pratchett, but am a big fan of Gaiman. After reading this I have decided to bump Pratchett up on my list of "escape" literature.
I still have not watched the show, but think I will at some point now that I have read the book. It is a very visual story and I look forward to seeing how well it translates to other mediums. ( )
I've read this book several times, but am disappointed. [return][return]I had read a lot of Pratchett when I read it first, had found Neil Gaiman to be witty and wonderful in real life before reading again. As such, I had high hopes for this, but each time came away in a bad mood and wondering what i'd missed.[return][return]It starts with the delivery of the Antichrist to a surburban couple by accident, and the things that happen when he starts growing up and people realise that he shouldnt be doing that......
Having completely forgotten I had read this I picked it up again. Excellent, I love being able to take a step back and enjoy the ridiculousness of heaven and hell theology through these characters. My only complaint is there really isn't enough Crawley and Azerafale here. ( )
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.
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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CAVEAT
Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
Dedicatòria
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The authors would like to join the demon Crowley in dedicating this book to the memory of
G. K. CHESTERTON
A man who knew what was going on.
Primeres paraules
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It was a nice day.
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It'd be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.
And there was never an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
In one sense there was just clear air overhead. In another, stretching off to infinity, were the hosts of Heaven and Hell, wingtip to wingtip. If you looked really closely, and had been specially trained, you could tell the difference.
The book was commonly known as the Buggre Alle This Bible. The lengthy compositor's error, if such it may be called, occurs in the book of Ezekiel, chapter 48, verse five....
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@;!*
The Buggre Alle This Bible was also noteworthy for having twenty-seven verses in the third chapter of Genesis, instead of the more usual twenty-four.
They followed verse 24, which in the King James version reads:
"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.
A man threw himself through the window, a knife between his teeth, a Kalashnikov automatic rifle in one hand, a grenade in the other.
“I glaim gis otegi id der gaing og der—” he paused. He took the knife out of his mouth and began again. “I claim this hotel in the name of the pro-Turkish Liberation Faction!”
The last two holidaymakers remaining on the island* climbed underneath their table. Red unconcernedly withdrew the maraschino cherry from her drink, put it to her scarlet lips, and sucked it slowly off its stick in a way that made several men in the room break into a cold sweat.
The pianist stood up, reached into his piano, and pulled out a vintage sub-machine gun. “This hotel has already been claimed by the pro-Greek Territorial Brigade!” he screamed. “Make one false move, and I shoot out your living daylight!”
There was a motion at the door. A huge, black-bearded individual with a golden smile and a genuine antique Gatling gun stood there., with a cohort of equally huge although less impressively armed men behind him. “This strategically important hotel, for years a symbol of the fascist imperialist Turko-Greek running dog tourist trade, is now the property of the Italo-Maltese Freedom Fighters!” he boomed affably. “Now we kill everybody!”
*Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Threlfall, of 9 The Elms, Paignton. They always maintained that one of the nice things about going on holiday was not having to read the newspapers or listen to the news, just getting away from it all really.
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Imagine a figure, half angel, half devil, all human . . . Slouching hopefully towards Tadfield. . . . . . .forever.
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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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Whats it about? ''Good Omens'' is a novel that deals with the efforts of a London-based angel named Aziraphale and a demon named Crowley trying to prevent Armageddon from taking place on the following weekend, as predicted in a book written by a 17th-century witch. Its a fun romp whose central theme deals with the question of humanity's capability to deal with the distinction between right and wrong. Oh and it deals with two kids, one of which, might just be the Antichrist.
For fans of: Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, The Book of Genesis, The Book of Revelation.
Not for: Fundamentalists Christians, fans of The Book of Genesis, The Book of Revelation,
folks without a sense of humor regarding issues of morality/Christianity, and perhaps, Buddhists.
P.S.- I'm very much looking forward to the TV show in 2019. (