Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Nov 16, 2018 Lucinda rated it really liked it

Just as good the 2nd time around :)

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Nov 21, 2021 Shannon rated it it was amazing

4.5 stars. I read a hardcopy as well as listened to the newly released audiobook narrated by Rebecca Front and performed by a marvelous cast including David Tennant and Michael Sheen. I'm a fan of both British humor and fantasy so I found it to be a really fun, delightful, chaotic yet philosophical romp. It's an ambitious story with loads of characters and told from an omniscient perspective. This at times makes the story a bit overly wrought, but I appreciated the effect of having an all- knowi ...more

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Jul 12, 2017 Ama rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017, fantasy, fiction-adult, ez-rat

The world is going to end. On Saturday. This has been long in the making, and was foretold centuries ago by an eccentric woman named Agnes Nutter. You would have known this if you had read her book. Of course, you would have to find a copy of the elusive tome, as only one is still in existence.

An angel from heaven and an angel from Hell – kind of … friends? … since back in the day when the one from Hell talked Eve into taking a bite of that apple. Both trying to stop the world ending once the an ...more

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Jan 20, 2014 Gayle rated it did not like it

....not my cup of tea. :D

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Feb 05, 2022 Chris Friend rated it liked it · review of another edition

This very much has a Hitchhiker's Guide vibe to it, sort of like a supernatural, rather than science-fiction, take on similar storytelling style. That's not at all a complaint or a disparagement. It's a sort of mentality one needs to go into the story with.

I tried to read this one several years back, and I just couldn't. I wasn't in the right mindset or in the mood for the particular flavor of un-seriousness that this book rather requires of its readers. This time, though, I was ready for someth ...more

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