Definitely held my interest. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who Well, that's the kind of humor that Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's 1990 release Good Omens brims with, and it is so damn good.Remember back when funny books were funny? In the end, it was this book done by two guys, who shared the money equally and did it for fun and wouldn't do it again for a big clock.In the French version, some characters were given French-sounding names. Remember when the words on the page didn't just make you smile wryly and shake your head in shame for humanity, but actually made you laugh out loud? Just as Adam's real father, the devil, seems set to come and force the end of the world, Adam twists everything so his human father shows up instead, and everything is restored. The book contains many extra footnotes as an explanation to some of the phrases that were translated more literally than usual and to add new jokes (for example the part where Anathema meets Adam and tells him she is an occultist, noting: "You were thinking 'Nothin' wrong with my eyes, they don't need examining,' weren't you?" After realizing that by embracing absolute power, he will not be able to continue to grow up as a child in Lower Tadfield, Adam decides to stop the apocalypse. That description doesn't really do the story justice, but that film definitely hits me in the same place as the book.I read this book before I tried to tackle Pratchett on his own merit, so I may have to retroactively skew this review based upon what I now know. Clever satire that’s harmlessly irreverent. At an educated guess, although neither of us ever counted, Terry probably wrote around 60,000 "raw" and I wrote 45,000 "raw" words of I think this is an honest account of the process of writing Welcome back. The incredibly accurate (yet so highly specific as to be useless) prophecies of Agnes Nutter, 17th-century prophetess, are rapidly coming to pass. However, in the talented minds of Pratchett and Gaiman, it’s the perfect setting. The rape itself is not the joke.I am just learning Spanish but I would like to say...I am just learning Spanish but I would like to say...Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, WitchI somehow ended up reading them both simultaneously. This has got to be one of the funniest satires I've ever read. Start by marking “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch” as Want to Read: A great story that moves along very nicely, as Good and Evil (as represented by the angel Aziraphale & the demon Crowley) join forces to try & avert the apocalypse. Initially, I did most of Adam and the Them and Neil did most of the Four Horsemen, and everything else kind of got done by whoever – by the end, large sections were being done by a composite creature called Terryandneil, whoever was actually hitting the keys. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled “DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. Gaiman and Pratchett had known each other since 1985. A great story that moves along very nicely, as Good and Evil (as represented by the angel Aziraphale & the demon Crowley) join forces to try & avert the apocalypse. They are gathered for a séance.I actually feel a little bad giving this 2 stars, since I see so many reviews of people who loved this book. I find if very difficult not to like a book about how plans for Armageddon hit a snag when a scatterbrained Satanic nun misplaces the Antichrist. So I wondered if maybe I shouldn't go back and check this one out. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.’The line is a reference to Ganghis Khan, who raped so many women that 1% of the population is said to be decendended from his gene pool. (That was exhausting though. Pratchett died in 2015. That's where I belong.) The book is enjoyable, but may suffer from the fact that it represents its two authors at what seems to be their most basic states.Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Terry Pratchett, Neil GaimanGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Terry Pratchett, Neil GaimanIn the beginning, there were a few words, and the words were with Neil Gaiman, and he saw that they were good words, so he passed them on to Terry Pratchett, so that he could make light of them. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.