Neil Gaiman

Terry Pratchett

Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right' According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Judgement Day is almost upon us and the world's going to end in a week . . . Now people have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it's only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea? You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax. Or you could just try to do something about it. It's a predicament that Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon now finds themselves in. They've been living amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and, truth be told, have grown rather fond of the lifestyle and, in all honesty, are not actually looking forward to the coming Apocalypse. And then there's the small matter that someone appears to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .

Good Omens

mateo

“Funny thing is,” said Crawly, “I keep wondering whether the apple thing wasn’t the right thing to do, as well. A demon can get into real trouble, doing the right thing.” He nudged the angel. “Funny if we both got it wrong, eh? Funny if I did the good thing and you did the bad one, eh?”

“No,” he said, sobering up. “I suppose not.”

might have jumped off a building after reading that idk

megumi

In the background, Crowleg and Aziraphale met on top of buses, and in art galleries, and at concerts, compared notes, and smiled.

The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

(Bre)anne✨

Crowley (An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards)

____________________ COMING TO AMAZON PRIME ON 31ST MAY - STARRING DAVID TENNANT, MICHAEL SHEEN AND BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Marvellously benign, ridiculously inventive and gloriously funny' Guardian ____________________ 'Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right' According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Judgement Day is almost upon us and the world's going to end in a week . . . Now people have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it's only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea? You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax. Or you could just try to do something about it. It's a predicament that Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon now finds themselves in. They've been living amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and, truth be told, have grown rather fond of the lifestyle and, in all honesty, are not actually looking forward to the coming Apocalypse. And then there's the small matter that someone appears to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .

Alesha Clifford

It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers.

The internal combustion engine had been a godse – a blessi – a windfall for Crowley.

sandra

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men. 

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 . . .

Jessica Geddis 

“If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.  And if you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot… no, imagine a sneaker, laces trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into insensibility; imagine a figure, a half angel, half devil, all human… Slouching hopefully towards Tadfield. …for ever.”

Pippa 

And just when you'd think they were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they could occasionally show more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of. Often the same individual was involved. It was this free-will thing, of course.

There had been times, over the past millennium, when he'd felt like sending a message back Below saying, Look, we may as well give up right now, we might as well shut down Dis and Pandemonium and everywhere and move up here, there's nothing we can do to them that they don't do themselves and they do things we've never even thought of...

One of them had written it, hadn't he..."Hell is empty, and all the devils are here."

That's how it goes, you think you're on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you. The Great War, the Last Battle. Heaven versus Hell, three rounds, one Fall, no submission.

"You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction," said the angel. "It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion."

De Bons Presages (French Edition)

Andre

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.

‘I don’t see what’s so t’riffic about creating people as people and then gettin’ upset ’cos they act like people,’ said Adam severely. ‘Anyway, if you stopped tellin’ people it’s all sorted out after they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive. If I was in charge, I’d try makin’ people live a lot longer, like ole Methuselah. It’d be a lot more interestin’ and they might start thinkin’ about the sort of things they’re doing to all the enviroment and ecology, because they’ll still be around in a hundred years’ time.’

‘There's no theatres in Heaven,' said Crowley. 'And very few films.’

‘Don't you try to tempt me,’ said Aziraphale wretchedly. ‘I know you, you old serpent.’

The door of the building swung open and the Four stepped out. There was no more than a hint of human about three of them now — they seemed to be humanoid shapes made up of all the things they were or represented. They made Death seem positively homely. His leather greatcoat and dark-visored helmet had become a cowled robe, but these were mere details. A skeleton, even a walking one, is at least human; Death of a sort lurks inside every living creature.

He had even been entertaining the idea of inviting her out for a meal, but he hated the idea of some three Cromwellian witch sitting in her cottage three centuries earlier and watching him eat. 

He was in the mood in which people burned witches. His life was quite complicated enough without it being manipulated across the centuries by some crazed old woman. 

A thump in the grate sounded like part of the chimney stack coming down. 

And then he thought: my life isn't complicated at all. I can see it as clearly as Agnes might. It stretches all the way to early retirement, a whip-round from the people in the office, a bright little neat flat somewhere, a neat little empty death. Except now I'm going to die under the ruins of a cottage during what might just possibly be the end of the world.

Far below, the tree burst the walls of its brushed concrete prison and rose like an express train. Jaime had never realized that trees made a sound when they grew, and no one else had realized it either, because the sound is made over hundreds of years in waves of twenty-four hours from peak to peak. 

But there were times when you needed trees, and the shame of it, Jaime thought, was that his children were growing up thinking of trees as firewood and his grandchildren would think of trees as history. 

But what could you do? Where there were trees now there were big farms, where there were small farms now there were plazas, and where there were plazas there were still plazas, and that's how it went. 

vairë randir

There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So 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. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. . . . Right. 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. . . . First published in 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind's final judgment is back -- and just in time -- in a new hardcover edition (which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort) that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things.

Iveta Frolíková 

Leslie Huffington 

Sarah Sammis

Agnes Nutter probably prophesied this but it's still worth celebrating; Good Omens is my 365th review for the year!

Good Omens is the brilliant novel collaboration between Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett with a guest appearance by Death. See, it's the coming apocalypse and Death is one of the Four Horsemen except that Pestilence has quit in a huff and Pollution is filling in for him.

At the center of the world's destruction is the 12 year old Antichrist. He should be living in the United States but he's apparently not. Can the forces of good and evil find him and set things right before they go completely pear shaped?

Good Omens is an enjoyable book with humor similar to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Gaiman and Pratchett play off of each other well although the pacing of the ending does stutter a bit. I'll forgive the book the last thirty pages since I enjoyed the rest of it so much.

Vicky  Nuñez 

This was just a joy to read. I can't believe this book took me this long to read, but it was just a delight.

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 Saturday.

C. D’Orsay 

Humourous, irreverent and clever... That pretty much sums the book up.  It's not often that I laugh out loud when reading, but this book coaxed a few.

Deepika Ramesh

'Good Omens' makes me remember why I love Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, and PG Wodehouse. This book is charming, funny, and moves my heart every now and then. :) And, the book tells me that some angels are angels, and some devils are angels.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

4.5 stars rounded up! my only criticism is that i didn't get to see enough of the characters i cared about the most. i wish the book focused more on crowley and aziraphale but i enjoyed it nonetheless!!!

Jensyn Ronca

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.”

anita

3.5
me hubiera gustado más si no se hablaba tanto de personajes que no me importaban :*

yaya

favourite book & show of all time!!!!!!! i've read this and listened to the audiobook more times than i can count and i often forget how accurate & well done the tv show adaptation actually is until i read or hear the Actual book chapters. it's freaking perfect

sammy

garnet

hilarious. never knew what was going to happen next but i was just happy to be involved. crowley supremacy

Lionel

From two delightful imaginations comes a comic masterpiece in which the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, the hound of the devil chases sticks, and the end of the world is subject to Murphy's Law.

Laura Mauler

Perfect book for waiting out a super typhoon, especially if there is a beer vending machine three floors below you.

Neil Gaiman + Terry Pratchett reads like of Kurt Vonnegut was slightly younger and more frivolous. I think if I was handed a page from this book I could tell you if it was Gaiman or Pratchett simply based on the number of references and footnotes.

Eli Alvah Huckabee

Neil Gaiman + Terry Pratchett reads like of Kurt Vonnegut was slightly younger and more frivolous. I think if I was handed a page from this book I could tell you if it was Gaiman or Pratchett simply based on the number of references and footnotes.

I’m still looking for my Anathema :(

Folks, there’s a reason why this book is a cult classic. It’s so nice to read this after reading books by both Terry and Neil, and realizing how much of this book is a beautiful combination of both of their styles (with probably more Pratchett thrown in, as I know Neil was a fan — but both wrote whimsically, as we know!). If you’ve watched the show, you need to read this book. I loved the touches of Death being similar to the Death of Discworld (especially considering that Neil once said Death was his favorite character, hence Terry writing Mort). Anyway, a must, must, must read for anyone. 

TW to be added later

Folks, there’s a reason why this book is a cult classic. It’s so nice to read this after reading books by both Terry and Neil, and realizing how much of this book is a beautiful combination of both of their styles (with probably more Pratchett thrown in, as I know Neil was a fan — but both wrote whimsically, as we know!). If you’ve watched the show, you need to read this book. I loved the touches of Death being similar to the Death of Discworld (especially considering that Neil once said Death was his favorite character, hence Terry writing Mort). Anyway, a must, must, must read for anyone. 

Lara Engle

So, what would happen if those responsible for the apocalypse didn't want it to happen? Angel, demon, and antichrist all more interested in humanity than divinity? That's what we discover in Good Omens. Plus, it's funny.

Side note: I think the TV show Supernatural owes an awful lot to this book. I'd be shocked to hear the people in charge of it had never read this.

Really really good - I've already watched the show and was a little worried the show was gonna outperform the book but they are identical!! Such a good plot and I adore the characters and the little British in jokes!

Soph

one of my favorite books of all time, so funny, so charming, and I needed to revisit the story after what I experienced in season 2 :’)

fris🐝

Cindy McKee

Finally got around to reading this so that I could be ready when the show comes out! What a delight! Just an absolute delight!

*This round of Good Omens was a full cast recording with David Tennant and Michael Sheen reprising their roles. So much fun!

Danielle McHale

Listened to the audio book version...found it quite enjoyable; however, I think I would find it stick more in my mind if I were to have actually read it myself.

Traci Wilbanks

Big fan of both writers, so this collaboration was a dream. I really enjoyed the story and the characters. I listened to parts of the book while reading other parts; the audio book was much easier to catch some of the jokes/cultural references. I think I missed out on a few things not growing up in the British culture. I was happy that there was a section at the end that went into how the writers collaborated as well as sections by each writer about the other writer.

Briar's Reviews

Good Omens has been recommended to me SO many times, it's unbelievable. My close friends and family have been suggesting I pick up this book for YEARS (quite literally, 5 to 10 years depending on the friend). My partner convinced me to start watching the television show (fantastic show, can be found on Amazon Prime) and I instantly knew that this was the kind of book I needed to read. If the show was this good, the book had to be just as good, right? Well, for one of those few rare instances the tv show is better than the book for me. Hard to believe, but it's true!

This book follows an angel and a demon, a group of kids, a witch, and a very small, basically one man army. The Antichrist is born, but as it goes... the angel and the demon who were following him accidentally lost him. The world goes into chaos the year the boy is old enough to reach his full powers, but maybe good and evil aren't as black and white as we think...

This was a super interesting read that is hilarious, fun to dive into, and has a lot of great commentary on religion and the way of the world. Aziraphale and Crowley are a hilarious pair who I now can only picture as the actors who played them in the television show (spot on casting, by the way). Seeing them deal with the chaos of the world, but also clearly have their own issues with being good and bad was a real delight.

I did find the last quarter of the book to be a little dull. It moved almost too quickly and I didn't feel like I had my feet on the ground while I was running through the pages. While it was a very good read, the end just kind of... happened. I didn't enjoy it all that much, but it was still very well written and I can see how people love it. I don't know what that ending would have needed to make me like it better, but it just didn't work with me.

Overall, it's a book I highly recommend. It will brings smiles and laughs from many.

3 out of 5 stars.

vincent osvald

** spoiler alert **
           the book is simultaneously funny and irritating. the prolonged chapters of the children sometimes made me want to rip out my hair. the parts with crowley and aziraphale are obviously my favourites

Joy Bush

Wish it had been funnier and more climatic.
Looking forward to the show soon!!

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