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

Amazing!!

I had heard about this book and thought i might try it out, and thank goodness i did! Its a wonderfully funny storyline and dramatic at the same time. And as some reviews say, "The Apocalypse couldnt be any funnier!" Heck, who wouldnt want the end of the world to be funny? Its fun, and a must read! I know that i'm going to have to buy more copies since i read it so much! *wink*

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

A classic

This is a great book seamlessly written by 2 authors in a way that you are unable to tell who has written what. The characters are interestingand fun, and the details are compelling and entertaining. I love this book so much that I have purchased 4 copies of it over the years and have had to repurchase because someone has borrowed it and has not returned it. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to read an offbeat book that does not talk down to the reader.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

I am thrilled to own this in eBook

I keep having to buy it again and again because it's so good I keep loaning it to my friends and I never get it back. They refuse to let it go! But now it gets to stay with me and be mine forever :)

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

The Funniest Mistake Ever

This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. It's one of those books that has you laughing so hard people start to stare at you. Gaiman and Pratchett together are unstopable!

One word of advice: Don't skip the footnotes!

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Quite possibly my favorite book. I've read it three times and pi

Quite possibly my favorite book. I've read it three times and pick up on new things with each read. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett have created something truly exceptional and wonderfully witty.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

The best book of al time

I'm a avid reader and have read plenty of books in my day but this one continues to be my favorite. Thos book not only makes you think but makes you laugh at nearly every page. The characters are just too likeable and this is book portrays a wonderful view of Armaggedon. If you don't believe me just look online and I guarentee you will find millions of people raving about this awesome book.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Not the best

The first half of this book was funny and really entertaining. But after a while it just didnt hold my interest. I finished it but felt the end was rather disappointing.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

You might want to scrible boring on some pages

There are things and really liked about this book and things I personally got annoyed with.

Things I didn't like were: Rambling, unfunny unnessesary whole pages of writing. Besides Aziraphael <3, Crowley <3, and the four horsepersons I didnt care at all for any of the other switching muiltiple and often random fleeting characters point of views with their rambling usually not quite funny and, except for a few key lines you might miss that add something to the plot, very skippable sceens. There were funny and interesting bits but overall an annotated version of this book would rock.

Only Aziraphale and Crowleys parts are worth reading all the way through. These two are interesting for being a not quite pure Angel and a not compleately evil in fact has a good side Demon. Besides them I wanted almost everyone elses part to be annotated for me.

Adam(a very central character) and his Them gang are a compleate bore. The author even admits through one of the characters saying it that their 'conversations' ramble (I cant use that word enough). Its more like 6 year old chatter chatter debate chatter, boring!

I guess it was a sort of a whos to say what some might find funny and others dont so they left all the rambling that would appeal to different people? I just did not like the 'voice' of the authors throughout this. But besides that, I was really into the plot and I wanted to know what was going on. I even stoped halfway and told myself to stop skipping and restarted the book so I could get it. And of course some of the characters were very very memorable and I want to hear more about. I picked mine you can pick yours.

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Quirky, cerebral, amusing, and damn funny

If it weren't for both authors' further writings and illustrious careers this would be a "one hit wonder" showing a "flash of brilliance." Alas, they went on to write copiously and sell obscenely (not vice versa!) so it is just a damn good start to a fine vocational pathway. Lucky us, the readers. There are pithy theological jests, and protracted post-modern diatribes that delight those who are comfortable challenging religious fundamentalism. Oh...and we finally get the answer to "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin." Brilliant and deceptively challenging while highly entertaining.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Fun read

Great book, high energy, fun read.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Brilliant, funny favorite

I first read this book when I was 13, much too young to appreciate every reference, and I liked it then. Every re-read has made me like it more. The fate of the world is at stake, and still I laugh at the humor, the absurdity, the *humanity* that shines through.

It's not a simple book - the language is smart and the plot has several lines that do tie together nicely. But it's enjoyable to read, not snooty or dense. The characters are fabulous and unique.

I've given this book as a gift for a huge range of people - my mom, my husband, my minister, my best friend's new girlfriend. They adored it. You should know, though, that any humorous book that takes on the anti-Christ, witches, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, angels, demons, and Armageddon is not going to appeal to everyone. Especially not those who have an extremely literal take on Biblical matters and an underdeveloped sense of humor. For everyone else, this is highly recommended.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Good Omens

You will never hear me complain about Neil Gaiman¿s imagination or creativity. I would not know much about Terry Pratchett, author of Discworld, because I have never really been interested in reading his stuff, but I simply had to give this book a try, based entirely on the irony of its subject.

For all intents and purposes, this book is an apocalyptic one, albeit shot up with a good amount of humor, where a satanic nun accidentally hands the antichrist to the wrong family and the kid ends up growing up as¿just a normal kid. The four riders of apocalypse are actually four motorcyclists (Hell¿s Angels), and a not always competent angels and demon are handed the task of keeping good and evil in balance until the end of days. With witches, witch finders, celestial and hellish creatures cut loose, this book counts down to the day that will end it all in a big war for which both Heaven and Hell have long been preparing for.

There is no question that this was a very fun read, the humor in it more than laugh out loud at points, however, it lacked the depth that Neil Gaiman¿s other books have had. Perhaps it is the fact that so many characters enter the story, from the Metatron (the voice of God) to Newt, a young man who thinks he is enlisting for the army, only to find out he has enlisted for an army of witchfinders composed of no more than two people¿and that is including himself. The characters are very colorful, but at the same time not very deep. The potential for greater exploration is there, but instead this book is kept light, meant to be much more comical than serious about its subject and that is not necessarily a bad thing, simply something you need to be aware of.

All in all, it was a fun read and would recommend it to anybody just looking for a good laugh and something to pass time with. But not to anybody looking for a serious read about the end of days.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Funny but not hilarious

When I got this book I was very excited at the prospect of reading a witty laugh-out-loud book that I had heard so much about. When I finished though, I was dissapointed. Although this book was marginally witty and funny the guffawing moments that I had expected were few and far between. Also, I did not understand many of the references in Omens- I had to look up the Dick Turpin reference on Wikipedia (FYI Dick Turpin was an English highwayman which was why Newt said 'wherever I go, I hold up traffic' HaHA). I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of Pratchett, Gaiman, or light humorous novels.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Great book

Nothing like a demon to make a story great

Highly recommended! A joy to read

One of my absolute favorites

Two of modern literature's best writers

I would be wasting your valuable time if I were less than direct. Good Omens is one of the funniest and most engaging books I have ever read. Now take the time you've saved by my brevity and use it to start reading this book that much sooner.

I Like Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett but I Didn't Like this Ti

I Like Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett but I Didn't Like this Title

I really wanted to like this title but after reading it I was disappointed. It was mildly funny, the scenes that involved Aziraphale, Crowley, and Warlock were laugh out loud funny. For example the angel saying the eff word or heaven and hell trying to influence Warlock in kick-starting the apocalypse. It's a shame there wasn't more with these characters because the other cast were lame as hell (or heaven, whichever side your routing for). Good Omens isn't all bad but it isn't very good either.

I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf for a good long whi

I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf for a good long while, but I never got around to reading it. I bought this book along with several other Gaiman novels several years ago, shortly after I read Neverwhere and realized how much I like his writing. Reading the excerpt of this book, I thought it sounded quite interesting, very absurd, and like it would be a book I would rather enjoy. So why did it take me so long to read it? I guess I just don’t read a lot of straight-up humor books. However, I decided to try something different after the heaping dose of angst I’d gotten from many of the other books I’d read recently.

I can’t say that I regret my decision — Good Omens is great fun. Within the first few pages, I found myself thinking that I had found Monty Python in book form. In short, Good Omens is a story an angel, Aziraphale and a demon, Crowley, unlikely friends since the incident in the Garden of Eden, who are none too eager for the coming apocalypse. Things go quite pear-shaped when an unwitting loquacious Satanic nun accidentally misplaces the Antichrist. Peppered with appreciable British humor, Good Omens is at once slyly funny and cleverly pokes at the mores of religion and society in general.

There were so many little touches in this book that I appreciated. However, it is not flawless. There were points in the middle of the novel where the humor slowed down almost to a stop. Some passages seemed a bit tedious, and others just didn’t make very much sense to me. I will admit, I have never read any Terry Pratchett before, so I am unsure if it is a symptom of me not liking or not being used to his writing, or if it is simply due to the fact that this is a collaboration of two (from what I understand) quite different authors. Overall, though, Good Omens is a rollicking good time, and I’d recommend it to fans of British humor that need a good cheering up.

One of the best books I have ever read!

I have read this book so many times that it shouldn't be good anymore, I have worn out 3 paperback copies and still enjoy it enough to buy it in ebook format, terry pratchett and Neil gaiman have created a masterpiece with this story, the wit and comedy is some of the best I have ver read from either author and I will continue to read this book over and over again, now with no fear of ruining the book!

Great!

Very enjoyable-exactly what you would expect from Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.