Good Omens

Good Omens
by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman


Blurb:

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 . . .

My Reaction:
Donald and I wanted to read the book before watching the recent miniseries based on it-- so this is a continuation of the unplanned, unintentional "tradition" that I only read Pratchett with him and never on my own.  It's also the first thing I've read of Neil Gaiman's, but since it was a joint effort, I'm not sure which aspects were contributed by each author... However, the fact that we enjoyed the book may mean that we (or just I) should try something he wrote on his own, at some point.

As is usually the case with shared reads, I don't really have any specific observations to make.  It's pretty simple: We enjoyed the book, and now I'm looking forward to seeing the adaptation.

...Okay, I thought of one specific observation.  I didn't enjoy the parts with Adam and the Them that much. Occasionally "their sections" of the book would offer up something truly amusing (and I did like Dog), but generally, I found their discussions a bit wearing, and I was glad when the story left them again. I could have done with less of the Them, to be honest.