A review by vaum
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

1.0

This book tried so hard to be funny but for me the witticisms that two white males wrote in the nineties didn't really work. I personally am not a big Queen fan so I fthought it funny that all music metamorphed to Queen cd's in the demons car. But that was about the only thing I smiled about in the whole book. My least favourite part was this:
She felt she looked haunted and gaunt and romantic, and she would have , if she had lost another thirty pounds. She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

I could write quite a bit only about that paragraph but I don't have the time right now.

A good plot might have saved something but there was't any. The form didn't work out for me either. I would liked to have concentrated on one thing for a bit more than just a couple of pages or paragraphs.

I liked the eco-critisism. But when that came mostly from the mouths of children and aliens that left a bad feeling that it was meant to not to be taken so seriously. Only simple people where worried about the environment. But that could be just me assuming the worst because I was so tired of this book.

Can't really recommend this book to anyone who reads it as a first time now and not in the nineties.
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