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Summary: Good Omens by Gaimen and Pratchet
Review: All I can say is-"Oh my God!" This book is an incredible novel rich with wonderful charecters such as Crowley (demon and love of my life), Aziraphale (an angel and rare book collector) and Adam Young (the antichrist). Pratchet and Gaimen bring this controversial subject into the modern world with the help of hilariously dark humor and an old crazy prophetise who is always there to lend a helping prediction. This is my favorite book in the whole world!! It took me a while to finish it the first time, because of all the plots that eventualy come together in the end for a large blow out finale. Yet I have read it three more times and I just can't get enough. This is a great tale for the young, the old, and the imaginative.
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Summary: You must read this
Review: The only book of truly popular negative theology ever written. Let's hope Pratchett and Gaiman collaborate again soon.
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Summary: A great book by great authors
Review: Wow! I thoroughly enjoyed this book. For anyone who likes British humor, this is a book that will keep you laughing, and thinking.Crowley is a demon with a mission. He has been chosen to end the world by delivering the antichrist to a family. The only problem is, he and his angel friend (that's right, friend) Aziraphale aren't exactly sure they want the world to end just yet. But, ever dutiful, Crowley delivers the antichrist to a hospital, where an order of satanic nuns are to switch the antichrist with the mortal baby son of the American cultural attache (ala "The Omen"). But, due to the slip-up of a particularly confused satanic nun, the spawn of satan is sent home with the wrong family, unbeknownst to the spiritual powers involved. The antichrist is delievered to a nice, middle-class family from Tadfield. Meanwhile, the four horsemen of the apocolypse are firing up their motorcycles, and the powers that be are gathering up their weapons for the war that is to follow Armageddon, among other, more earthly matters. This book is very odd, very funny, and somewhat dark all at the same time. This is probably due to the fact that the authors (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett) are considered to be rather well-versed in these areas. If you are a Gaiman or a Pratchett fan already, then Good Omens is likely to increase your appriciation for the authors. However, if you haven't read Gaiman or Pratchett's books, Good Omens is a good introduction to both authors. In my case, it got me started reading the authors' individual works, and I haven't looked back since. Hopefully, this book will open new literary opportunities for the willing.
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Summary: Wow. Just wow.
Review: This is the best book ever. I never thought Daouglas Adams could be displaced of that title, but it's happened. I read it in less than I day, I couldn't get enough! Everyone on the face of the planet should read this, including you. Buy it, and be sure to heed the author bios. *nudge*
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Summary: Puns, puns, and more puns
Review: What a team! This book is so terrific it amazes me that Pratchett & Gaiman haven't done another, but I guess they're too busy on their own projects. I can't say anything that earlier reviewers haven't already said in praise of this hilarious and philosophically pointed novel--except to mention the wacky wordplay, very likely Terry Pratchett's. As it happened, the first time I read the book I was studying the Welsh language and when I came across the quite authentic-sounding name of a Welsh town, Pant-y-Gyrdl, I nearly drowned in tears brought on by excessive laughter. I suppose in our advanced era of Pant-y-Hos, that particular pun might go by without notice. Too bad, but it's far from the only bit of wordplay that will make you giggle. And sometimes stop and think, which is even nicer.
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Summary: Warning!
Review: Beware! This book will have you laughing so hard, you will, on many occasions, be utterly incapable of either speech or sight. I have read this gem at least six or seven times, and it has formed the basis of my attatchment to both Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, both of whom are now favorite authors of mine. I have had to buy the book numerous times, as it has been passed on and on and on among friends and strangers. I too have read passages from the book to complete strangers, often as explination for paroxyms of laughter. I have never had a one not laugh along with me. In typical Pratchett fashion, footnotes are plentiful and hilarious. Read, enjoy, and pass it along. The world could use more laughter.
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Summary: You will laugh out loud
Review: I was reccomended this by a friend a million years ago and thought it was so very funny then. I re read it this week and I gotta tell you it's still really very fresh. The charachters Aziraphale and Crowley are probably as good as anything in Discworld (which I have a thing for as well)and some of the scenes with them just stick in your head long after you read it. How all tapes left in a car for two week turn into "THe Best Of Queen" and as the Angel and the Demon who have started to really like the human race decide to prevent Armageddon and betray their respective sides as Crowleys tape player blares out "Beelzebub has a devil set aside for me". Very funny and well worth the read, I lhope you enjoy it.
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Summary: Ineffable!
Review: This book is so amazing it is beyond words. I was laughing, I was crying (from the laughing), and I was completley consumed with the book from cover to cover. I have little to no knowledge of the Bible, getting what I know from resources other than the good book itself. I have to admit there were only a couple of times I had to ask my friends what certain religious things meant, but other than that the book was great at expressing each stage of Armagedon without confusing me. The book is simply hilarious, as I've allready said. The characters are amazing, of course I have my favorites but each one does such amazing job of pulling you into the story and helping you to imagine their own little world. My favorite pair, Crowley and Aziraphale working for their bosses from both hell and heaven respectfully, yet they don't want the world to end. They enjoy it to much. You even learn to love the antichrist in this book, Adam, and his 3 other companions, no matter how much mischief they cause. And, the hilarious trio of Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell along with his new Private Newton Pulsifer and their interactions with Madame Tracy. Not to mention Sister Mary Loquacious the Satanic Nun of the Chattering Order of St. Beryl who make the whole story line pausible. The flow of the story is just so entertaining, and the wonderfully developed characters are the ones leading you on through the whole thing.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: I've let over 10 of my friends borrow this book over the last nine years, and have had to re-buy about 5 copies to be able to hold onto a copy of my own. It's simply one of the funniest, most moving, most exciting, most re-readable books ever. Put simply: Try and find another book that as deftly ponders the meaning of being human, having free will, and what choices we are told to make in our moral lives day after day and can still make you laugh so hard milk comes out your nose.
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Summary: Really funny
Review: All of the parts of this book do come together as good and evil must make a working agreement to accomplish their tasks. I enjoy Gaiman's work, thi sbeing his first work that I picked up.
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