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

Terry Pratchett

Start date: March 1, 2019

Finish date: March 23, 2019

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Apr 13, 2018 Jim rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1audio, fantasy, humor, 2fiction

A fun trip to the Apocalypse & beyond. English humor which doesn't usually do too much for me, but this was pretty good. I'd have liked it better if it had been shorter by half, though. ...more

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Apr 08, 2019 Kivrin rated it liked it

I did enjoy this book, but it really, really jumps around a lot. From viewpoint to viewpoint until it just became annoying especially since I could have done without a couple of the characters completely. Still, it was funny, especially the explanations of English things for us poor Americans.

Fun read.

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Aug 02, 2011 Scot rated it it was amazing

Wonderful partnership between two excellent British SciFi/Fantasy authors. Pratchett brings the parody and Gaimen brings the mysterious. The story follows the hilarious final days before the apocalypse including the young anti-christ, an angel and demon who are not sure they want the world to end because they are having too much fun on Earth, two completely incompetent witch-hunters, the daughter of an old prophetess, and the modern incarnations of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Laugh out ...more

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May 13, 2010 Brian rated it really liked it

The Apocalypse. Well, get on with it already.. I felt as though I should have enjoyed this book more than I did. A collaboration between two distinguished sci-fi/fantasy writers, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens could have benefited from a third person: an editor.

All of the elements that I normally enjoy: satire on religion, dry British wit, and a bit of ridiculousness, seemed wasted as the narrative was disjointed, at best. Considered a cult classic, this may be a book that deserves ...more

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Jan 30, 2010 mina rated it it was amazing

Hilarious, as you can predicted from the name of the authors :D Gaiman and Pratchett is morbidly funny of their own, imagine how it turns out when they write together about Apocalypse. By the way, it was written in 1980s, when they were just Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, not THE Neil Gaiman and THE Terry Pratchett, the gods of all writers nowadays.

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