Pratchetts omens are all good. (Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman)

Member Name: kylecoare

Product:	Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Date:	18/04/05 (586 review reads)
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Advantages: Fantastic humourous fantasy writing

Disadvantages: None really, Trees cut down for paper?

Terry Pratchett And Neil Gaiman

Good Omens

Well I was thinking of writing another music review but couldnt think of any albums to write about so instead we are going to lean over and pick up a nicely sized novel by a certain Mr T. Pratchett and his friend Mr N. Gaiman, entitled Good Omens, which was realeased upon the world in the grand year of 1990.

Terry Pratchett started writing a fair few years ago, back in the 60’s whilst still in school, over the years his talents increased and he found himself working for various newspapers etc.
He then went on to write a series of fairly successful books, which you may have heard about, the Diskworld books, pretty much always in the top ten charts.

Neil Gaiman on the other hand is pretty unknown in this country, he is a comic book writer, but has also had a hand in various books and tv films and series.

So anyway you take these two writers and stick them in a pot, bring to the boil, let simmer for a few months and what do you get, well that’s the interesting part and also what most of you would have looked at this review for, so I suppose id better let you have the gory details.

THE BOOK

The first thing a lot of people like to know about books is how long is it, am I going to be reading the same novel for the next five years ala Tom Clancy, or is it going to be a waste of money, well fear not this novel rests right in the centre its not too long and its not too short basically its almost perfect.

The story revolves around the oncoming Armegeddon (end of the world, Battle between Hell and Heaven, blood guts and a very strange little child who call Satan daddy)

Basically the Anti Christ has been brought upon our fine earth to do what he is meant to do, ultimately end all existence, the thing is that the Demon that is supposedly helping these matters forward,Crowley, doesn’t really want the earth to end, in fact he quite likes it here, so along with his friend the angel Aziraphale they go about trying to stop the end of all existence.

The anti Christ himself starts unsurprisingly as a newborn baby, who over the course of eleven years grows into an eleven year old boy, so far so good, in fact its almost how it should be, except for one minor detail, the anti Christ really should be raised by evil people, but unfortunately there was a slight mix up at the hospital, and he was brought up by a nice quiet god fearing family in middle England.

Anyone that has read a Terry Pratchett book before will be on fairly familiour ground here, although this book is a little darker and is set in the real world, in the end its trademark Pratchett, which makes me wonder what Mr Gaiman actually put towards the novel.

There is a lot of clever jokes that use references from various other sources such as a book called the bible, certain movies like E.T, the Omen and the Excorsist, the list goes on as is really expected from a pratchett novel.

The book is one of the funniest of Pratchetts offerings to date, it just blends perfectly, and I also enjoy humour that makes fun of the bible and the early days of the world, not because I don’t believe in god, but because I can see the funny side in the bible.

This book is well worth reading, if you don’t think youll get the references don’t worry, the story is funny without all of them.
Its easily near the top of my favourite comedy style books, alongside Douglas Adams that is!

The storyline should keep you interested over each of its near 400 pages and there are a few little plot twist that will keep you turning the pages.
The story brings fair few charactures into play all of which bring their own personalities and twists into the story, these include a few biblical references such as the Metatron or the voice of god as he/she is also known.
The story also has a guest appearance by none other than one of Pratchetts most loved charatures, Death, who really reminds you that this is one of Pratchetts books.

Im going to leave it a that for now, if youd like to know more about the novel please leave a comment and ill add more to this review, but really I think you should just get out and either borrow or buy a copy(£5.99), then you will see how good it is!

Thanks for reading and hopefully my next few reviews wont be as bad as this one!

Kyle

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