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Summary: Pee your pants funny!
Review: You don't need to be a fantasy or science fiction nut to love this book, just someone who appreciates a dry and twisted sense of humor. I would never have been interested in this book based on the description, but I'm so glad I gave it a try, because this is hands-down the funniest book I've ever picked up in my life! The jokes aren't slapstick-in-your-face; they're quick and inconspicuous, which makes them even funnier. Don't read this book in a library or on the bus; people will wonder why you keep bursting out laughing uncontrollably. For instance, picture a servant of Satan, threatening his plants to keep them alive. Or the biblical Famine running a fast food chain.I *will* warn that anyone who is offended by, let's says, "creative" interpretations of biblical events may not enjoy this book. If the idea of, say, an angel of Heaven uttering the "F" word under dire circumstances isn't your cup of tea, or the idea of Satan speaking through a Freddie Mercury tape upsets you, then you probably won't enjoy this book. Otherwise, settle into a comfy chair and get ready to laugh until you can't breathe!
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Summary: American Gods and Neverwhere are Better
Review: I was hoping this would be very good, given how much I liked American Gods, but it isn't. The angel characters are funny, as is the young Antichrist and his dog, but the world just doesn't come into focus very well. Too much of the plot hinges on way-out last-second magical intervention.
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Summary: The Apocalypse is coming!
Review: Who would have thought that the Apocalypse could be so funny and filled with such happenstance and errors!!! This book is very well written and incredibly funny. Also has one of my all time favorite lines... "all tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into _Best of Queen_ albums". If you like this I would also recomend Neil Gaiman's _American Gods_.
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Summary: *Damned if you do, damned if you don't*
Review: Good Omens is an interesting, though sometimes tough read by authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Overall the story is funny, original, and amusing. Most of the time the story moves along well. The best parts of the story involve angel Aziraphale and devil counterpart Crowley. The way the authors put these two eternal beings into modern human society is the funniest theme in the book. Both beings have grown so accustomed to human society, that they actually dread the day of reckoning long prophesized in every religion. They just want things to stay the way they are. Well, life staying the same as it had been will be difficult, since the anti-Christ has been growing up (in suburban England of course) for many years and is about to come of age. That is another humorous story in itself. See, there was a mix-up by the devil's agent at the time of birth, and ... This book would be an even stronger recommendation, if it didn't bog down at times. The story could have been faster paced. Never-the-less, the story rates at an enjoyable 3.75 out of 5.00 stars, rounded up to 4.00. The originality of the story-line, the many, very funnny characterizations, and the way the plot is amusingly wrapped up, make it worth the read. Especially good book to pick up while hanging around airports for the day.
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Summary: Good Omens, but.....
Review: I didn't like it. I felt like Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, being the excellent writers that they are, tried too hard and...sort of cancelled each other out. The whole story is just not very original, especially if you've read their work.
The characters and the jokes were either too obvious, not funny or too "typical" for me. I think I was expecting something so incredibly awesome. I am sorry to be a traitor, but it really takes a fire under my butt to read any more of it. Try ANYTHING else the two have written!
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Summary: Hallelujah!!!
Review: Fantastic book! One of the best I’ve read in a long time. This book was the first time I had read either Terry
Pratchett or Neil Gaiman, but I definitely will read more of them in the future. Hilarious from start to finish. Even
the Bios of the authors have jokes in them. For a book about the apocalypse its amazingly lighthearted and fun. The book is so great I had to make all my friends read it so they actually understand some of the fantastic
one-liners in it. My Favorites include the one describing Crowley: “An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter
Vaguely Downwards.†Who can forget the one about the Hellhound turned “cat-worrier†after attempting to turn a
cat into cowering jelly with his satanic gaze and earned a swat on the nose for it: “Cats, Dog considered, were
clearly a lot tougher than lost souls.†There’s an interesting and very insightful one in the end in which Crowley
describes the battle between good and evil as not being a “cosmic game of chess†between the God and the Devil
but instead “very complicated solitaire†that God is playing to make sure His creation works properly. This book left me with a good feeling, every time I’ve read it, and I sometimes read it when I’m in a bit a
slump because it is laugh out loud funny and has a happy ending too. Its a wonderful story with a fun cast of
characters and a off-beat message about humanity that I recommend anyone and everyone to read.
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Summary: Good Omens
Review: One of the most entertaining books i have ever read. It kept me laughing out loud throughout most of the book. No stopping hilarity...not for the weak of religious hearts.
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Summary: Absolutely, Positively Beautiful!!!!
Review: This is the most uplifting, fun, and recommendable to almost anyone book that I have read in ages. I finished it in 36 hours that were only interrupted by work. I couldn't bring myself to sleep I was to captivated. I found myself laughing out loud while sitting by myself in a coffee shop only to look up and see two older women staring at me as if I were crazed. I can honestly say that I was surprised by almost everything that happened in this book, and that it was so dissapointing when I finished the last page. I immediatly went and patronized one of my good friends into reading it the next day, and she finished almost as quickly as I did. It has been a few months, and we still make jokes to each other about the book. I am actually quite distraught I have been unable to convince any of my other friends to read it yet. I am now done rambling on like a 12 year old girl with a crush, my final words being: Please, read this book.
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Summary: Prophecy of Greatness
Review: Good Omens is one of the best books I have ever read. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet have stuck gold! Their combined talents have created both an ingeniously perfect author and a likewise ingenious book. Good Omens is a double edged sword, one which can inspire great fits of laughter and a deep thought process that will lead you from International Express deliverymen to angels to Satan. This book rivals Douglas Adams humor and improves upon his seemingly random, but actually well thought out story line. This book will make you want to read it again and again!
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Summary: Good Stuff!
Review: After reading Gaiman's "American Gods," I went on a buying spree and picked up a bunch of his books, and this is the first of them I've had time to read. It's definitely amusing (I love a good apocalypse story), chock-full of sly, British humor. The authors try to be Douglas Adams, and they occasionally fail, but usually they succeed. The book didn't have me in stitches the way "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" did, but it was definitely good for a laugh (and a bit of theological pondering). The characters are great, the writing is top-notch--definitely worth reading of you like Pratchett, Gaiman, comedy, Christian fictions, or just books in general.
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