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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Terry Pratchett

Start date: August 2, 2019

Finish date: August 31, 2019

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Jan 27, 2013 Jess rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-2013, tower-teams-team-c, owned

Good Omens is one of those books that when you’ve finished it, you have to sit down and honestly ask yourself why it took so long to get around to reading it. No excuse is really good enough, because this book is simply amazing.

I love both Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman as authors, and I’d heard a lot of good things about this particular book, so I suppose my expectations were quite high from the start. In a lot of cases this leaves room for only one thing: bitter disappointment, but this was n ...more

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Nov 28, 2014 Morgan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, humor, demons, geek-appeal, paranormal, witches-and-wizards, re-reads, angels, audiobook

Re-read for SRC, but listening to the audio this time around.

It's been awhile since I read the print version, but I feel like I enjoyed it more. Whether that was a format thing or the time when I read it, I don't know. Some books just resonate more at certain points or in specific moods.

The audio was good and the narrator did a great job with the different voices for each character.

Even though my rating went down a little, I'm still really glad I re-read it. ...more

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May 20, 2019 Sue rated it liked it

I loved the story and am looking forward to the mini series but I didn't enjoy reading it. This is the first time I have to say that about a book (at least partially) penned by Neil Gaiman. I think it might have been the mixed voices of Neil and Terry that made it more difficult but the visuals are fantastic and the story is hilarious.
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