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Summary: Top notch irreverent fun!
Review: ...I have read Good Omens a good many times and have found it to be a wonderful ride. I actually need to purchase a new copy since I've about worn out my old one. This book is everything the movie Dogma wishes it could be. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Two Heads are Better than One
Review: I have just recently entered into Neil Gaiman's Sandman works, and have truly loved the experience of the graphic novel, although it is still newto me. I have also just read the first of Terry Pratchett's Disc World, The Color of Magic, which I found a bit hard to follow in both the language and narrative, but enjoyed none the less. But I truly believe these two authors hit a goldmine in working together. Their ideas are beautifully executed in prose that is British, but not too British for the average American. And it's damn funny, this stuff, too! I laughed out loud in public places while reading this story about the impending doom of the planet. Now I'm not so scared of the apocolypse! I must say, if you are very religious, this could be a bit "blasphemous" but I find that sort of humor refreshing. Let's not take all this life stuff too seriously. If you need a good laugh at the expense of a Catholic-school-upbringing, enjoy this one! (Also, for blasphemous humor in the same tone, watch Kevin Smith's film,Dogma. In which, God is played by Alanis Morisette.)
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Summary: Hardly funny.
Review: A very ill advised descision by the authors to include such done to death concepts as from the point of view of angels in the modern world. That's why I hated the RPG "In Nomine."About the only main attempt at humor would "Ha Ha look at these supposedly celestial beings, and they're holding up ordinary jobs, ha ha ha. How twisted is that?" If you want to see a funny parody of the apocalypse, check out the website: Apocamon the Final Judgement. It's no where near complete, but its free and its illistrated, and it's far more amusing.
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Summary: Boooooo-riiiiiing!
Review: This book tries too hard to be funny and zany and "wicked." But the humor is lame, and its satirical targets are so old. No, it's not like Monty Python. Story concerns a child antichrist who doesn't want to start Armagedon. Instead, he wants to play with his dog. That's wicked? That's sacreligious? That's nothing! The old theme of a reluctant Christ/antichrist was much better handled in Hal Hartley's indie film, Book Of Life. There's one good line in this book, about Ygor "clocking overtime" because there's no thunderstorm. That's it. As an example of "trying too hard" to be funny, near the end of the book, a character flies through the air on a scooter, wearing a pink helmet. Why pink? I guess because it's zanier that way. An authority figure whose helmet is pink! Ha, ha! How subversive! Zzzzzzz.
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Summary: Perhaps the funniest book ever written
Review: I knew nothing of Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman when my husband handed me GOOD OMENS to read. Once I finished the first chapter I was hooked forever. This is one deliciously warped view of the apolcapyse, complete with a devil who scares plants into growing, four "horsmen" who ride Harleys, and some of the most brilliant puns in the English language. Don't miss Death, who is the best character in the book: all irony, sarcasm and speaks in capital letters. After all the belly laughs, I became a devoted Pratchett fan, and I highly recommend his Discworld books. Gaiman, is a much darker writer, and appeals to me even more. If you are in any sort of blue mood, pick up this book and you'll be instantly transferred to humor heaven.
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Summary: Good Omens
Review: This book is a great piece of literary work. I couldn't put it down. It will lift your spirits to a new level.
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Summary: Funniest book about the Apocalypse that you will ever read.
Review: This is a great book. It is witty and intelligent. I've bought many copies of this book and given them out as "presents" because once you loan it to a friend they don't want to give it back. I only wish they made this book in a hardcover!
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Summary: Definately good for a laugh
Review: Good Omens is about the coming apocalypse, but things go drastically wrong. I won't say much more about the plot because I'm sure the 300+ reviews will say it for me, but I will say it's worth your time to read. Don't take it seriously and just enjoy the humour and the events that take place.
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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read. Seriously.
Review: God, this was intelligent. God, this was funny. God, this was well-plotted. God, this was the Apocalypse. I suppose I should say more. Here goes: Crowley, the snake who initially tempts Eve in the Garden of Eden, decides, along with the angel who initially watched over them, that the human race isn't all that bad. Though the Apocalypse is on them, complete with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse riding Harleys and a switched-at-birth Antichrist who doesn't realize that he's the Antichrist, perhaps the world shouldn't end after all. Crowley is an intensely cool character, neither completely bad nor completely good. He takes his job of condemning souls to Hell not too seriously, for he realized a couple centuries ago that human beings faced with enough daily aggravations could condemn themselves. The angel Arizaphale, I believe his name was, runs a bookstore collecting rare books and, most aptly, prophecy Bibles. (This and the footnotes in the book are the funniest, most "Hitchhiker's Guide" moments in it.) Arizaphale realized that human beings should be allowed to continue on in order to keep making art. So the two team up with witches, parents and other veddy British personalities to save the world from its supposed end. This is very funny.
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Summary: Monty Python and the Apocalypse
Review: Laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish. If you love Monty Python, if you love "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and if you love "The Omen", (and people are always telling you to lighten the hell up) - DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK!!! Word is that cinematic genius Terry Gilliam has been trying to get a film version of this off the ground - this could easily end up as his best film yet. Gilliam is the only filmmaker capable of capturing and translating this inspired lunacy to the big screen.
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