review: Good Omens

[Nessa]

reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=1484

[Fellfrosch]

I liked this book quite a bit, or perhaps I should say that I like half of it quite a bit: it's almost funny how you can read through it and tell which parts were written by Pratchett and which parts were written by Gaiman.

[Nessa]

But EUOL says that something Fell wrote is even funnier. When do the rest of us get to see it? Hrm?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I've read it.

[Fellfrosch]

The book EUOL is referring to is the one currently under review at Roc. The editor liked the first three chapters enough to request the whole thing, so cross your fingers and we'll hope to hear back in a few months.

[Chimera]

I was lucky enough to read that book, and I liked it a lot too. So I'll cross my fingers, my toes, my arms, my legs, and my eyes. (But then, when I hurt myself running into things and falling down stairs, you'll be sorry.) 

I thought Good Omens was very entertaining. I could at times tell that there were different writers, but I wasn't familiar enough with either author's style to make the distinction. I do remember that I liked the parts with Adam and the Them and the bikers of the Apocalypse (one of my all-time favorite quotes comes from them), and I got bored to the point of putting it down when we were dealing with the witchfinding agency.

Ah, here's the quote from the bikers! It was part of my TWG tag for awhile:

"Can I be Rubbish?" asked Skuzz. "Or Embarrassing Personal Problems?"

  Tee hee. I love that quote.