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A review by esqfanny
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
3.0
This is a very entertaining book... For the most part, especially the first 200 pages or, in other words, until Saturday. After that, too many things start happening at once, existential dilemmas are solved "very easily" and interesting characters are quickly thrown under the bus because, well, spoilers ahead, it's not really THE apocalypse.
Don't get me wrong, most of it is amazingly enjoyable, especially because the tone of existential absurdity that oozes from the first half of the novel is exhilarating: a true contender for the "let's laugh we'll all die" prize, a true heir of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's humor. But it doesn't last.
I'm still wondering what ever happened to the Duke of Hell after he got out of the answering machine.
I still don't understand how, narratively speaking, the mad witchfinder and the middle aged woman got the dialogue and scene time that could have been used for a better development of the 4 horsemen (especially Death). They are just... there, you know?
I'm still mad about Adam moving his hand and suddenly The Devil no longer cares, or exists, or remembers, turning the almost fight/sacrifice pointless. Not "oh life is devoid of actual meaning let's have fun with existential absurdity" pointless, just the rushed type of pointless.
But it was fun.
Don't get me wrong, most of it is amazingly enjoyable, especially because the tone of existential absurdity that oozes from the first half of the novel is exhilarating: a true contender for the "let's laugh we'll all die" prize, a true heir of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's humor. But it doesn't last.
I'm still wondering what ever happened to the Duke of Hell after he got out of the answering machine.
I still don't understand how, narratively speaking, the mad witchfinder and the middle aged woman got the dialogue and scene time that could have been used for a better development of the 4 horsemen (especially Death). They are just... there, you know?
I'm still mad about Adam moving his hand and suddenly The Devil no longer cares, or exists, or remembers, turning the almost fight/sacrifice pointless. Not "oh life is devoid of actual meaning let's have fun with existential absurdity" pointless, just the rushed type of pointless.
But it was fun.