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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Five Stars for Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.


Summary:


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.

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