Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Book Review: One of the best books I've ever read!
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book. Though I can't ever say that I've read anything by Gaiman, I am a die-hard Pratchett fan. i think the whole novel is a work of pure genius. And Crowley by far is my favorite character. Who says that demons are all evil?Book Review: wickedly funny!
Summary: 5 Stars
Discworld author Terry Pratchett and Neil "the Sandman" Gaimon have conspired to perpetrate the funniest novel I've ever read. Making such alledged "laff riots" as The Princess Bride and Confederacy of Dunces pale in comparison, Good Omens has the same wonderfully skewed British sensibility as the best of Monty Python. Insightful and inventive, chock-full of wonderful throwaway "bits", Good Omens made me realize the apocalypse could be a hoot. The only book I've ever bought multiple copies of...and the subject of my holy grail, the coveted hardcover edition.Book Review: A Sidesplitingly Hilarious Book
Summary: 5 Stars
I tell you this as one book lover to anouther. BUY THIS BOOK. BUY IT NOW. BUY COPIES OF IT FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. BUY THIS BOOK. I have a friend who has a copy of this book. She has lent it to half of our high school. There have been no complaints. This copy has been dubbed THE BOOK and is the official mascott of the class of 2000 by popular vote. BUY THIS BOOK!!!Book Review: Few things more ineffable than enjoyment of GOOD OMENS
Summary: 5 Stars
Having just read `Good Omens` for the third time in two years I was delighted to discover this collection of readers' reviews. There can't be many books capable of eliciting such uniformly effusive praise from so wide a variety of readers. Reading these diverse comments was almost as much fun as reading the book - each comment helping one to savour once more a different facet of the incredible craftmanship of Gaiman and Pratchett. What surprised me, though, was to discover that not a single reader's review so far has touched on what I consider the funniest aspect of the book - the fun the authors have with the word `ineffable'. Quite clearly, during one of their discussions prior to or during the writing of the book, one of them must have remarked on what a, well, ineffable word it was. The more they thought about it, the funnier it must have seemed until they decided they simply had to use the word at every turn in the book - to such hilarious effect that I cannot encounter the word without a chuckle or even a guffaw. My sons and I sing in an Anglican church choir, and it's ineffable how many hymns contain the word. We dare not catch each other's eye when it comes up. Another device the authors use to great effect is the footnote as part of the entertainment. In this they are almost as effective as George McDonald Fraser in his magnificent Flashman chronicles. Any author(s) who can turn the subject of Armageddon and the Anti-Christ into hilarious comedy and at the same time convey a gloriously positive affirmation of belief that the forces of good (or at least of common sense) will ultimately prevail over the forces of darkness, deserves something even better than the Nobel or Pulitzer.Book Review: A goldmine of ideas
Summary: 5 Stars
Good Omens is one of only two books I've read all the way through three times. It has at least one or two brilliant ideas on each page, sometimes more. It has more wonderful humor than you can shake a stick at, and more wonderful characters than you can shake anything at, including the four bikers of the Apocalypse; Death, War, Famine, and Pollution (Pestilence had given up in 1936, mumbling something about penicillin), all in fascinating modern versions.Without at any point being sappy or na?ve, this is somehow one of the warmest and most optimistic books I know. *And* funniest.
Getit. And then read Neil Gaiman's comic The Sandman.
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