Staff Pick
The quick-witted humor of Terry Pratchett, driven by the nonsense of the mundane, collides seamlessly with the picturesque darkness of Neil Gaiman, where the mundane reveals itself to be secretly fantastic, in this modern comedic fantasy about a demon, an angel, and the antichrist — who is an 11-year-old boy named Adam — and his loyal hellhound, Dog. Recommended By Lonnan R., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
According to
The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter,
Witch (the world's only
completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.
So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.
And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .
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"What's so funny about Armageddon? More than you'd think...Good Omens has arrived just in time!" Detroit Free Press
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"The Apocalypse has never been funnier." Clive Barker
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"A steamroller of silliness that made me giggle out loud." San Diego Tribune
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"An utter delight -- fresh, exciting, uproariously funny." Poul Anderson
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"Outrageous...read it for a riotous good laugh!" Orlando Sentinel
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"Wacky and irreverent." Booklist
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“A direct descendant of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.” New York Times
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“One Hell of a funny book.” Gene Wolfe
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“Hilarious!” Locus
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“It could be called The Hitchhikers Guide to Armargeddon.” Palm Beach Post
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“Something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated.” Washington Post
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“Irreverently funny and unexpectedly wise . . . Highly recommended.” Library Journal
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“From beginning to end, GOOD OMENS is side-splittingly funny . . . a ripping good time.” Rave Reviews
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“[L]ittle asides, quirky observations, simple puns and parody eventually add up to snorts, chortles and outright laughs.” San Diego Union-Tribune
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“Huge fun.” Sunday Express (London)
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"If you've never read [GOOD OMENS], don't miss it now.
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“Fiendishly funny.” New Orleans Times-Picayune
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“I whooped . . . I laughed . . . I was in near hysterics.: New York Review of Science Fiction
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“A slapstick Apocalypse, a grinning grimoire, a comic Necronomicon, a hitchhikers guide to the netherworld.” James Morrow, author of Only Begotten Daughter
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“Hilariously naughty.” Kirkus Reviews
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“Reads like the Book of Revelation, rewritten by Monty Python.” San Francisco Chronicle
Synopsis
We hear the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.
Unfortunately, Sister Mary Loquacious of the Chattering Order has misplaced the Antichrist. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles. And the representatives from Heaven and Hell have decided they actually like the human race...
About the Author
For those who really need to know, Terry Pratchett was born in Buckinghamshire, England, in 1948. He has managed to avoid all the really interesting jobs authors take in order to look good in this kind of biography. In his search for a quiet life he got a job as a Press Officer with the Central Electricity Generating Board just after Three Mile Island, which shows his unerring sense of timing. Now a full-time writer, he lives in Somerset with his wife and daughter. He likes people to buy him banana daiquiris (he knows people don't read author biographies, but feels this might be worth a try).
Neil Gaiman used to be a journalist, but gave it all up to write comics, which he claims are a totally valid late-twentieth-century art form, and he's even won awards for them, so that's all right. He's 5'11" tall, owns a number of black T-shirts, and although he's not overly keen on banana daiquiris, is always very flattered when appreciative fans send him money (he's read Terry Pratchett's biography, and, although he doubts that this will have any effect, figures what the hell).