Good Omens by Terri Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Title
Good Omens

Author
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman

Copyright
1990



This is another book for the weird and wild mind of Sayshana. I read it, I liked it, although was vaguely aware that reading it just might be sacriligious, and for some bizarre reason that vaguely bothered me. So here's the premise of the book, an angel and a demon have been living in the same area for so long that they've more or less become friends. They do drink together regularly, though, and have typical "we're drunk, yet philosophical" discussions that pretty much everyone has on a good friday night.

Our friendly little demon (named Crowley, haha writers so clever), has been given the job of delivering the AntiChrist to an evil nunnery where it is quickly switched with a regular baby and is switched with a wealthy Brittish family, or so they think. Azizraphale (i'm not sure on the spelling, but he's the angel) and Crowley make a little deal, they're both going to try and influence baby Warlock's growth and see what happens.

When little Warlock turns twelve and doesn't have any evil powers of mass destruction and mayhem, it becomes apparent that there might have been a mistake. As the time of the Apocalypse grows nearer, our heroes desperately try to locate the real AntiChrist and to prevent the end of everything.

In this story we are presented with a horde of interesting characters. They are all so bizarre and odd that on some level they seem to compete for your attention on the page. Perhaps what I found most pleasurable about reading this book was the descriptions and hyper-active descriptions that the authors use. An example of this would be the passage "gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide". Just brilliant and just brilliantly weird.

I reccommend reading it, but I personally didn't find it a fast read. It took me a week to get through it, mainly because the mass of characters are introduced all at roughly the same time and it does take a while to figure out who is who and what their relevance to the story is. Take your time reading it so you don't get lost, and remember, its supposed to be weird and funny!