Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4774 in Books
• Published on: 1991-05-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Synopsis
Taking a cynical look at the horror genre, this book features Crowley and Aziraphale, two friends who attempt to prevent the prophesised Armageddon. When the Antichrist is born they divert him from his original home at the American Embassy to Tadfield, where he grows into an unkempt individual.

From the Back Cover
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...

About the Author
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie.

Customer Reviews

Occult Classic (Kinda like "A cult classic")
I wonder if my writing a review for this book is a waste of time. There are already so many giving this book and it's authours all of the praise they're due!
Bravo!

But I love this book so much I just have to talk about it!

Here we see a collaboration between Gaiman and Pratchett so cleverly written and elaborate. Many strands of story converging together in a well ordered and thought-ahead way. Something hard for one writer to convey on his/her own let alone having to confure with co-writer on a different continent.

Some obvious Pratchett style writing - obvious Gaiman Style and some, where the writers themselves are said to not know who wrote it.
As if the book wrote, grew and evolved all on its own.

I think one of the best ways to describe its content is to draw on its obvious paralells with the widely known Omen Trilogy (or quadrilogy if you want to recognise that awful 4th instalment made many years later) and even that assimily does not do it justice.
Another way would be to say it's the "Scary movie" of books, but where this is incredibly dry and witty and actully funny!!

I whole heartedly unreservedly recommend you buy this book NOW!!

A bit of a let down
It starts off really well with very funny lines and then drags on a bit.

I love Good Omens
When I first came across this book I read it because I had enjoyed Terry Pratchetts Discworld series. I found it a little too funny, since I do most of my reading on the bus or in public and kept laughing out loud, but the embarrassment was worth it. I have insisted my friends read it and have actually missed this book while I had lent it to them. Good Omens was also my introduction to Neil Gaiman whose books I have also loved and I think that this book is the perfect blend of the two authors. Everyone I know has found it hilarious, even those who I didn't think would. It is a fantastic read and I wish I could find fault with it