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Loading... Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witchby Neil Gaiman
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I love this book. I had lent it to someone and when I got it back decided to re-read it myself. It's funny and original and it's one I try to make everyone read. (  ) chicamimi | Jan 2, 2010 |  Two wierd minds contributed to this book. As a result, the finished article is completely mad, and the lunacy is of such a high order that the joins between the two author's work is seamless. The Anti-CVhrist gets swapped at birth with another child by accident. Part of this book (probably Pratchett's) is a Richmal Crompton 'Just William' pastiche; other parts are just lunatic, such as the prophecies of the sub-title, which are unique for being totally accurate, and therefore incomprehensible except under very special circumstances. What, after all, would anyone make of a 16th Century prophecy that simply said "Don't buy Betamaxx"? ( ) RobertDay | Dec 21, 2009 | What to say that hasn't already been said a hundred times better by those more articulate than I. ( ) foxface | Dec 19, 2009 | Wonderful fun, in the way you'd expect a Gaiman/Pratchet to be wonderful fun. A fun and dirty allegory about the apocalypse, I can hardly remember anything about it but I'd recommend it to anyone in an instant. (  ) circumspice | Dec 9, 2009 | I picked this up off the donations table at the library, expecting to find it a mildly amusing quick read that I'd put back on the table when I was done. And that is exactly what happened. I'm not really into reading humor; I just don't find it particularly engaging. That said, the book was really witty and fast-moving, had some great characters and some real tension. I still put it back on the donations pile when I was done. ( ) codyne | Nov 19, 2009 | 
 ''Good Omens'' is a direct descendant of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,'' a vastly overpraised book or radio program or industry or something that became quite popular in Britain a decade ago when it became apparent that Margaret Thatcher would be in office for some time and that laughs were going to be hard to come by. Just as Douglas Adams worked his joke to death by juxtaposing the tedious lives of ordinary people with events of cosmic significance, so Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, two former journalists, go on and on for 354 pages with their schoolboy wisecracks about Good, Evil, the Meaning of Life and people who drink Perrier... Obviously, it would be difficult to write a 354-page satirical novel without getting off a few good lines. I counted four.
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According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.
So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.
And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .
(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400)
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