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21.8k reviews for:
Buenos Presagios: las buenas y ajustadas profecías de Agnes La Chalada
Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
4.2 AVERAGE
21.8k reviews for:
Buenos Presagios: las buenas y ajustadas profecías de Agnes La Chalada
Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
4.2 AVERAGE
Gosh I loved this books so much! Amazing characters and writing, but most of all amazing humour! I recommend this for everybody, especially if you’re in the mood for comedy, cus oh it’s hilarious. I still can’t believe it, but I keep loving Neil Gaiman more and more after everything I read by him, and that’s true even now! How could I give this less than five stars???
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Read as an audiobook, this was a full BBC 4 production so more like a radio play. I quite enjoyed it, although the cast listing at the end of each chapter was a bit annoying. I'd be interested to re-read in book form to see the difference since this was clearly a scripted play.
24 hours to Armageddon and one angel and one demon are trying to thwart it to preserve humanity and their 6,000-year friendship.
I read this in 2012 (review below) and re-read it again because this was made into an Amazon Originals series. It's free for prime members right now and you should definitely watch it. This is one of the very, very few books I will say the movie was as good as the book. But you should still read it. Another first - watch it first, then read the book. There is a lot going on and it is easier to follow in the movie but you really need to read it.
The Amazon Original series was awesome. It does have some language (notably one F-bomb each in episodes 4, 5, and 6). Some mild sexual humor. Some violence. Really, other than a bit of language it is pretty tame and you should really watch it because David Tennant and Martin Sheen are AWESOME!
==============2012 review
If I ever write the great American novel, I want Neil Gaiman to write the introduction. He writes the best introductions, including this one for the book he co-authored with Terry Pratchett. I read the introduction to Bill Friday evening, semi-intentionally starting a steal-the-book-from-your-spouse weekend. We had a great time talking about it as we read.
How to describe the book? Maybe The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy meets the Screwtape Letters?
Rated PG-13 for strong language (really, just one word, one time). A PG-rated sex scene.
I read this in 2012 (review below) and re-read it again because this was made into an Amazon Originals series. It's free for prime members right now and you should definitely watch it. This is one of the very, very few books I will say the movie was as good as the book. But you should still read it. Another first - watch it first, then read the book. There is a lot going on and it is easier to follow in the movie but you really need to read it.
The Amazon Original series was awesome. It does have some language (notably one F-bomb each in episodes 4, 5, and 6). Some mild sexual humor. Some violence. Really, other than a bit of language it is pretty tame and you should really watch it because David Tennant and Martin Sheen are AWESOME!
==============2012 review
If I ever write the great American novel, I want Neil Gaiman to write the introduction. He writes the best introductions, including this one for the book he co-authored with Terry Pratchett. I read the introduction to Bill Friday evening, semi-intentionally starting a steal-the-book-from-your-spouse weekend. We had a great time talking about it as we read.
How to describe the book? Maybe The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy meets the Screwtape Letters?
Rated PG-13 for strong language (really, just one word, one time). A PG-rated sex scene.
adventurous
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I feel like so much happened, but also like nothing happened. And the ending felt like a let down. I know I'm in the minority, but I didn't like this one. The full cast audiobook was good though, just didn't like the story.
Un libro escrito por dos amigos que se nota que lo pasaron bien al desarrollar el proyecto, y eso lo transmiten en sus páginas. Me he reído bastante con el humor sarcástico y muchas veces negro que nos dejan las aventuras de un ángel y un demonio, que no necesariamente están determinados en esencia por el bien y el mal, mientras intentan salvar al mundo del apocalipsis y el Anticristo.
La pluma de los autores se combina maravillosamente bien y la descripción de los escenarios es genial. La única pega que le pongo es que quizás hay demasiado personajes secundarios y cuando toca el turno de que ellos entren en escena, mientras los principales desaparecen un rato de la acción, se nota y la trama avanza más lento.
Mención aparte a los pies de página, que aportan algunos de los pasajes más divertidos e irónicos del libro, y a los increíbles textos de los autores que se encuentran al final.
La pluma de los autores se combina maravillosamente bien y la descripción de los escenarios es genial. La única pega que le pongo es que quizás hay demasiado personajes secundarios y cuando toca el turno de que ellos entren en escena, mientras los principales desaparecen un rato de la acción, se nota y la trama avanza más lento.
Mención aparte a los pies de página, que aportan algunos de los pasajes más divertidos e irónicos del libro, y a los increíbles textos de los autores que se encuentran al final.
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book describes the "end of the world" as a comedy of errors. An unlikely pair of friends, an angel and a demon, have lost the Anti-Christ, and now are trying to rectify the mistake, because they want to stop the end of the world. They kind of like the world, and they want to keep it going for a while.
I will say this is less a "funny book", but more that this is a silly book that has very funny quips. It does not take itself seriously, and is very much in the realm of Douglas Adams type humor - irreverent and silly. On that, it is definitely a good book. All while reading the book, I kept getting the sense that this is a very "80s-book". I look at the cover - published in 1990, so close enough.
The place that this falls on its face, hard, is when it stops being silly and starts getting sanctimonious. About halfway through the book, one of the "horsemen" - War - makes the off-hand comment that the humans are doing a wonderful job of killing themselves, that the horsemen aren't really needed. Okay, fair enough. But this comment keeps repeating itself throughout the later half of the book. Almost every single character says something like this, multiple times! Even the main characters! Guys, if you hate the world so much and think we humans so awful, why are you working so hard to save it?
I will say this is less a "funny book", but more that this is a silly book that has very funny quips. It does not take itself seriously, and is very much in the realm of Douglas Adams type humor - irreverent and silly. On that, it is definitely a good book. All while reading the book, I kept getting the sense that this is a very "80s-book". I look at the cover - published in 1990, so close enough.
The place that this falls on its face, hard, is when it stops being silly and starts getting sanctimonious. About halfway through the book, one of the "horsemen" - War - makes the off-hand comment that the humans are doing a wonderful job of killing themselves, that the horsemen aren't really needed. Okay, fair enough. But this comment keeps repeating itself throughout the later half of the book. Almost every single character says something like this, multiple times! Even the main characters! Guys, if you hate the world so much and think we humans so awful, why are you working so hard to save it?