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A review by cle_hobbit
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
5.0
I picked this book up on a whim. I’ve only ever read “The Colour of Magic” by Terry Pratchett and “The Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman, and I thought this sounded intriguing.
I laughed my way throughout the entire book, including the introduction and the commentary at the end by both authors. I wanted to highlight a quote or passage from seemingly every other page! It’s classic British parody and satire and its grandest.
What amazed me most, however, is how seamlessly Pratchett and Gaiman can go from satirizing everyday sociopolitical society at an adult level, to evoking the sense of exploration and wonder that we all had as youth.
Adam and company at times made the story for me. They talk and BS in a mood very reminiscent of the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Imagine those two classic American coming of age stories as a series of interludes in a British satire, and you’ll appreciate the injections of youthfulness into the story that come precisely when needed.
I wanted to reread this book immediately after finishing it, and I will no doubt make this title a part of my permanent physical collection. Reading Good Omens is like sitting on your back as a child in the grass under a blue sky, watching the occasional clouds go by while sipping a cool lemonade, pondering the odd world of grown-ups and their grown-up things, laughing at the absurdity of it all, catching your mind wandering to wherever it may, occasionally picking up the thread of the grown-up absurdity again, until you’re refreshed completely and have made up your mind to never grow up.
I laughed my way throughout the entire book, including the introduction and the commentary at the end by both authors. I wanted to highlight a quote or passage from seemingly every other page! It’s classic British parody and satire and its grandest.
What amazed me most, however, is how seamlessly Pratchett and Gaiman can go from satirizing everyday sociopolitical society at an adult level, to evoking the sense of exploration and wonder that we all had as youth.
Adam and company at times made the story for me. They talk and BS in a mood very reminiscent of the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Imagine those two classic American coming of age stories as a series of interludes in a British satire, and you’ll appreciate the injections of youthfulness into the story that come precisely when needed.
I wanted to reread this book immediately after finishing it, and I will no doubt make this title a part of my permanent physical collection. Reading Good Omens is like sitting on your back as a child in the grass under a blue sky, watching the occasional clouds go by while sipping a cool lemonade, pondering the odd world of grown-ups and their grown-up things, laughing at the absurdity of it all, catching your mind wandering to wherever it may, occasionally picking up the thread of the grown-up absurdity again, until you’re refreshed completely and have made up your mind to never grow up.