The armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four
Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road,
and the world's last two remaining witch-finders are getting ready to fight the
good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins.
Everything appears to be going according to Divine
Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon -- each of
whom has lived among Earth's mortals for many millennia and has grown rather
fond of the lifestyle -- are not particularly looking forward to the coming
Rapture.
If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from
happening, they've got to find and kill the Antichrist (which is a shame, as
he's a really nice kid). There's just one glitch: someone seems to have
misplaced him. . . .
Review:
Two indisputable
reasons to read Good Omens: 1.
Laughter 2. Supernatural.
Good Omens made me laugh out loud. This type of occurrence
happened with one other book: Confederacy
of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Good
Omens like Confederacy of Dunces
screams absurd stupidity. Picking up either of them on my own to read –
impossible, not happening and all that; however, Good Omens reminded me of the
TV show Supernatural, and I’m a huge fan, so maybe not so improbable.
Other reasons to read Good Omens:
1. “It’s not enough to know what the
future is, you have to know what it means.” In Good Omens the future is written
in the Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, but it doesn’t exactly give you
dates, times and places of the exact incidences. I was raised Southern
Baptist, and nothing is more annoying than what C.S. Lewis calls the watered
down Christian. The Christian who takes the biblical word at, well – its word.
2. Good Omens answers pertinent
questions like “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?”
3. Campy catch phrases: “That’s how it
goes, you think you’re on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon
on you.”
4. Because we are people …
“And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human
beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up
in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching
people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitar at people. Offer
people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow”
The fourth
reason can be attested to by Rick Springfield when
he played Lucifer on Supernatural. Those Springfield episodes bagged a lot of
souls.
