Rating: Summary: Recommend Good Omens to anyone who likes to laugh. Review: Good Omens takes elements of horror movies, and injects an incredible amount of lunacy. The outcome is incredibly funny. Portions of this book are so quotable that it helps to read it with a pen to underline the exceptionally funny bits. Although, it seemed to me like the book had more of Pratchett's style than Gaiman's.
Rating: Summary: You ought to be in pictures..... Review: Can some one please explain shy some one has not already put this story on film? Am I the only one that can see Jack Nicholson as Crowley?I am now ordering my third copy of this book, as I have totally ragged out the first two. By far the funniest book I have read. From the Chattering Nuns to the "Hellhound" to the four Horsemen (I especially liked Famine), this book has me laughing and giggling out loud each time I read it. Like a fine Monty Python skit, it just gets better and better each time.........
Rating: Summary: Hilarious Review: I have read the book several times and still start laughing on page one.
Rating: Summary: Read this book and laugh!!! Review: I've just read this book for the third time. Yes the third time and I cannot stop laughing. The characters that Pratchett & Gaiman have created are absolutlely some of best ever! This book will definitely give you an interesting outlook on the Apacolypse!
Rating: Summary: Majestic Setup for the Apocalyptic Fall Review: I finished the book a couple of months ago... and had since wanted to know what other readers thought of it because for me it felt like the above title for my review. I finally found the time to come and check... and i found all these gushing reviews with 10 marks all over the place. Now don't get me wrong. I am a great fan of both authors (I buy the Sandman and have most of the Discworld novels). Yes the book is hilarious. Absolutely side splitting. In fact 90 percent of the book warrants that full 10 marks. However I was totally devastated with the ending of the book. In one word : lame. The build up was absolutely stupendous... making me wish as i was approaching the end that it would not end. But when i got there... what a fall. It was like witnessing a bird in full graceful flight suddenly drop down to the ground dead. With a thud. What a let down. What a disappointing end. I can't help but wonder if they had let the plot unravel as they wrote ( tell me it ain't so, Terry ) but when they came to the ending they found it totally impossible to tie up all the brilliant work they have done before. They could have gone on and on for two more books wihout losing it... they were having fun doing it. But i am afraid they failed miserably to come up with an ending brilliant enough to match the approach. The lame ending drags down the whole book. It promised so so much. Visions of fiery showdowns of hellfire and brimstone... by God it's Heaven against Hell..... danced in my mind as the book raced towards its conclusion. I absolutely refuse to believe it can be resolved in a more wimpish manner. The forces of Evil blinked out with various contraptions someones kid brother wouldn't want to be associated with in fear of looking silly. Just standing there watching as one by one they are *destroyed*. The Final Apocalyptic Battle done with on a couple of pages. When the book ended my jaws were hanging and in my head was reverberating the words "what... is that it?!??" What a sorry ending to a! totally brilliant book. Sigh... there's always the next time.
Rating: Summary: All who like to read should read this book! Review: The book is wonderful. Each author, Pratchett and Gaiman, are great by themselves, and the combination is hilarious and spectacular. This book is one of my favourites of all time, and I reccomend it to everyone.
Rating: Summary: Apocalypse WOW! Review: If Armageddon really will be this funny, I hope that it's soon, like the crazy guy on the corner says. Aside from the big plot jokes, there are little jokes hidden like Easter eggs throughout the book. From Elvis flipping burgers in Des Moines to a Satanist nun who remembers that the Antichrist had "lovely little toesie-woesies," Good Omens reminds us that the world, and its end, are a lot more fun and funny than we realize. Oh, yeah, PS: I happen to be an obsessive Sandman fan, and I wouldn't be doing my duty if I didn't point out that the book "SANDMAN: WORLDS' END" deals with the end of all the worlds, after a fashion.
Rating: Summary: Run off another batch for me! Review: Well, I'm busy wearing out my third copy - when I can pry it out of my sister's grasp for a minute! What else can anyone say?
Rating: Summary: Laugh? I nearly ended the world myself! Review: This is the funniest book I have ever read! If the world is going to end, I hope it happens like this. Pratchett's humour mixed with Gaiman's darkness is a perfect combination. I have read it again and again and again. This is the best book I have
Rating: Summary: ARMAGEDDON - '90'S STYLE! Review: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... um, sorry, I have been laughing like this since I first reaad this book back in '92. You know about the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse, but did you know about their greasy biker henchmen? Pratchett & Gaiman wrote a winner with this book. I may be burned at the stake for saying this (but I could always stuff my pockets with gun powder and nails) but in my opionion this is even funnier than Hitchhikers Guide to the Galxay. Read this book, if for no other reason than to laugh about the end of the world!
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