From the Bookshelf of The Sword and Laser…

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

Terry Pratchett

Start date: January 11, 2011

Finish date: February 8, 2011

Discussion: 2011 Reads

Why we're reading this: As voted by our listeners!
[close] As voted by our listeners!

Find A Copy At

Group Discussions About This Book

Showing 2 of 315 topics — 4,558 comments total

2011 Reads

GO: Good Omens coming to TV
By Tom , Supreme Laser · 6 posts · 226 views

last updated Mar 06, 2019 08:32PM

Ready Player One Casting
By Kidsake · 27 posts · 669 views

last updated Sep 24, 2015 09:43AM

showing 10 of 91 topics view all »

What Members Thought

Jan 21, 2008 Sandi rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2008, fantasy, top-10, funny-stuff

What a funny, funny book this is. It's thought-provoking too. If I were a die-hard millennialist, I probably would have been extremely offended. I might have even tossed this book. But, I'm a Lutheran. We have a sense of humor about religion and can tell the difference between satire and bashing. I also grew up in the era of "The Omen", "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist." Many of the jokes requires a knowledge of these books/movies to make any sense. It also helps if you've actually read the l ...more

10 likes · Like · see review

Aug 28, 2008 Jon added it

Shelves: read-in-my-40s, fiction, loved-it, fantasy, kc-winter-reads

4 stars ...more

3 likes · Like · see review

Sep 03, 2008 Brenda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I listened to a full cast production of this for my second time read through and that was really fun. This is just a silly, fun story.

1 like · Like · see review

Feb 21, 2008 Turi Becker added it · review of another edition

This was a reread, one of my gym books - Good Omens, by two of my favorite authors - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. This has been one of my favorite books ever since Mich recommended it - I grabbed it as a last-minute substitute when I couldn't find our copy of something else I was looking for. In brief: It's the story of a hilariously botched Armageddon, with a misplaced Antichrist, an Angel and Demon who would rather work together, and a 400 year old prophetess and her descendants. Pratchett ...more

Like · see review

Jan 16, 2008 Matt rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: supernatural, fantasy, favourites, 2013

Thoroughly enjoyable and very different. I loved Good Omens, and although I felt it got a little awkward at the end I still thought it was pretty fantastic.

Like · see review