Jesse’s Reviews > Good Omens > Status Update

Yeah, like, I appreciate this book but it’s missing a certain something, either in how little agency any of its characters seem to have or how long the authors spend in soliloquizing satire.

I wonder how much of the meandering of the prose is a product of Gaiman trying Pratchett’s prose style on considering that he had only written short fiction and comic books up until this point.

how on earth did I end up on a book edition with zero pages :gonk:

OH. It took awhile to get to how exactly the meandering Adam gets to imagine Armageddon, but it’s good. The diversion about the witch finders and Agnes’s pyrrhic death is darkly humorous.

okay I wasn’t entirely sure how this story was gonna spin out of control but it seems that a lot of it right now is that lovable Adam, the 12 yr old antichrist, is unknowingly altering the world with his adventurous imagination. How this is aligned on a crash course with the four horsemen, idk. I am also eager to see how Good Omens Death compares with Discworld Death.

It’s been great fun so far. Pratchett skewering the contemporary as well as Christianity (kind of) has been a fun change from fantasy-setting-parody that occasionally grapples with Big Ideas. Azriphale and Crowley are a great odd couple.

on one hand I don’t doubt that Gaiman was involved with this book. I just think that so much of the prose style between the two is so complementary that you only get Gaiman from the bits that feel nastier than typical Discworld, like musing on the unknown future of Baby B or the rundown of the horseman (one horsewoman?) of the Apocalypse, particularly War.