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

[Tami]

We are going to have one thread for each book as now Goodreads has made a spoiler tag that you can use to put before anything that is a spoiler. Use your discretion as to what would be a pretty big spoiler and label it. Please put up to what page the spoiler is for.

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*Take out the spaces in both of the spoiler tag.

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Discuss away....

[Heather]

Nullifidian wrote: "So when you finally get to the plot, in the hours and days leading up to what may be the Apocalypse, it seems to drag even as the action is picking up."

I read Good Omens a while ago, but just recently finished American Gods and I think this style you describe is a deliberate choice on Neil Gaiman's part, because I got the same feeling from American Gods. Nothing really happens until the last few chapters. It works decently in Good Omens because Terry Pratchett is so funny, but it makes American Gods really plodding and slow.

[Laarni]

Heather J wrote: "I read Good Omens a while ago, but just recently finished American Gods and I think this style you describe is a deliberate choice on Neil Gaiman's part"

I haven't read American Gods or other of his general fiction yet but I think if he wrote it as a children's book the same way he did The Graveyard Book and The Ocean at the End of the Lane, the story would have progressed faster and there wouldn't have been a need for R.P. Tylers or Marvin O. Bagmans (which resulted to me giving it 3 stars).