Good Omens: A Full Cast Production

Amazing story well performed by a great cast. Highly recommended!

This was a surprisingly interesting and very good book, well thought out and cleverly put together. Thank you to the authors for teaming up on this one. I don't know if they will be writing another one together but if they did I would definitely read it.

This is one of my favorite books. It's so good.

Whimsical and amazing. Enjoyed every part and had many audible laughs.

Very good performances. The story feels very dated to 1990, but it is light and funny.

Wonderful voice acting and great writing. Loved every second. Absolutely hilarious and very engaging.

Funny and satisfying. Neil Gaiman is one of my favorites but this one is not one of my favorites from him, yet I don't mind re-reading this later in the future.

This book was by two authors. It was Neil Gaiman's original idea and Terry Pratchett offered to either buy it from him or co-author it. The combination works. In an interview Neil Gaiman said before it was published he did not have any feeling for how popular it would be, or even if it would get published and has been happily surprised at how popular it is. He said it is a mistake to think he wrote the dark bits and Terry Pratchett wrote the funny parts. It is much more intermixed than that. In the interview he said he couldn't say all of which parts were whose but did say that he wrote the end part about the 4 motorcyclists of the Apocalypse and that Terry Pratchett wrote Agnes Nutter's burning scene. The combined effort is brilliant, high comedy, meaningful and well written.

Funny and satisfying. Neil Gaiman is one of my favorites but this one is not one of my favorites from him, yet I don't mind re-reading this later in the future.

Several friends of mine found this very funny, but truthfully I found it on the verge of boring. Much silliness, yes, but none of it really laugh-out-loud funny, or really even all that clever. Felt very 1990s to me for some reason.

I first read this two years ago and loved it. I was working a crappy job and read a torrented ebook copy at the desk while at work. It made life just that much more bearable. For that I thank Messers Gaiman and Pratchett. This is also the reason I chose to reread it with my book club. Good Omens is a tale of the Apocalypse. The end is drawing near and yet the Anti-Christ has gone missing, been misplaced, is more accurate. It's up to an angel and a demon, who are as close to friends as two beings who work for opposing teams can be, to find the Anti-Christ and try to end this messy end of the world business, since both of them have rather grown used to life on earth and have no real desire to return to their respective places of origin. As one can expect from Pratchett and Gaiman, the story contains a myriad of confounding and endearing characters who make things as insane as possible so that the reader has to set the book aside for a few moments just to take a breath. I love this sort of book.About a week before the date of the book club, one of the ladies said to me, "Well, I read your Good Omens . . . Let's just say that I've read better books." Two days before the book club, my coworker tells me that at least three ladies have told her that they hated the book. Damn. So I got all paranoid and neurotic over it for the next two days, thinking that they must have found the topic offensive and therefore not at all funny. I hadn't thought that would be a problem when I chose the book, since I'd been doing this book club for almost a year and knew these ladies' tastes to a certain degree by now. Day of the book club: The religious aspect had nothing to do with their dislike of the book. They both simply found it hard to read. One even stated that for a comedy, the humor was too subtle. Alright, I got it now. This was okay; this was something I could understand. They didn't dig the writing style, no biggie. Pratchett's style is a little confusing with so many characters and subplots that it just builds and builds and can be a bit overwhelming. I tend to like this, but I had read quite a lot of Pratchett before I ever got to Good Omens, so I was used to his style. This was the first Gaiman novel I had ever read, though I've read a few others since.It's always fun rereading a book. I found a few things that I had not noticed the first time around. For instance, one of the aliens is a robot shaped like a pepper pot that is an obvious reference to the Daleks from Doctor Who, but I never watched or knew anything about that show until last summer, so I didn't catch the reference my first time around. I wonder what else I'll find the next time I read it, because it's pretty certain that I'll want to read this book again and again.I think Daddy will be wanting to borrow this book from me sometime in the near future. Perhaps I'll simply take it home with me next time I go to visit the parentals. Verdict: I still love the book, though I agree with the ladies that the ending left something wanting and wasn't wholly satisfying. All the laughs make up for this in my mind, but they didn't get the laughs out of it that I did, so they felt it discolored what few good points they found in the book.*Lesson: Never ask a book club to read a favorite book again, because I will consider their judgement of the book a judgement of me, even though I know damn well that that isn't the case.* They thought the footnotes were often the funniest parts. Can't argue there.

This is not the Discworld. No Rincewind, no nightwatch, no witches.. only the 'real' world, with 'real' problems, like end of the world and war between heaven and hell that shall begin in just a few days. Antichrist, the son of Satan, was born 11 years ago and his duty is to win the war in favor of hell. Or isn't it so?

This is the book that got me hooked on both Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. It is also easily the single most hilarious book I have ever read in my life, and I continue to return to it anytime I'm in need of a good laugh.This is one of those books that people are forced to buy multiple times, because if you let someone borrow it you'll never get it back and you're bound to read it so many times the pages fall out. I know I have.Terry Pratchett is one of the best satirists working today, a talent on the level of Jonathan Swift. Neil Gaiman has elevated the graphic novel to an art form worthy of induction into the literary canon. Put the two together, and they create a novel that will literally have you laughing so hard it hurts.

Didn't find it laugh-out-loud funny, but still funny nevertheless. Clever references. Footnotes were sometimes the best part.

Great book. But chapter 3 of the audio book is duplicated. The chapter plays twice in a row.

10 audio discs4 ★Prachett and Gaiman take us on a quirky mind-bending ride.Narration by Martin Jarvis is excellent (less)

Far better than the series (& I enjoyed that, too). So lovely to hear Pratchett’s voice in the writing.

Fantastic! This was an excellent listen. Great story; good narration and just fun. An Angel and Demon living through the ages of the world and becoming best friends while doing it. And together they help avert the apocalypse. It was simply brilliant.

I've read so many raves about Gaiman and Pratchett on LT that I really wanted to read some of their books, and this is the first one I've read (I know they don't generally write together). I thought it was pretty good--amusing, well-plotted, etc., but it didn't make me want to rush out and buy their other books. Some of the satire was a little too obvious or too cute, and that's just not as funny as it could be.

I really liked this book. It was fun to read, and I'm a sucker for humorous footnotes. Pratchett and Gaiman are both awesome, and you wouldn't think their writing styles would mess all that well, but the effect is something like Douglas Adams. Funny. Blasphemous. Smart. Plausible in the most impossible ways. A little dark if you think too much about it. But really fun to read.

Good Omens is the story of the end of the world, and the mistakes and blunders that complicate things for both Heaven and Hell. Oh, and there's this book with really specific accurate predictions that are coming true. And there's an awesome frenemy relationship between an angel and a demon. Cool. There are witches and witch hunters and delinquent kids and Horsemen and talking cars. It's fun.

I don't know why this book took me so long to finish, except that maybe there were too many little plots it took a while to digest. When you have angels, demons, their respective superiors and partners, multiple human main characters and their support, and random related events, you have to take your time.

If you're looking for a weird, funny, complicated, somewhat blasphemous take on the end of the world, Good Omens is a good place to start.

Gets a little dull and long by the end, but a lot of fun before it starts to drag. The ending feels a bit tacked on too. However, the characters are interesting and it has that Neil Gaiman magic for quite a while. I haven't read Pratchett before, so I have no idea if it lives up to Pratchett standards.

I didn't laugh out loud but I enjoyed this book. It was entertaining, captivating, and I like that an angel and a demon were friends. Great storytelling, I hardly cared about the writing at all.

This is simply wonderful! Having the full cast voices from the show made it even better for me!

It's been a while since I read Good Omens, since I rather overread it when I was about seventeen. It kept my spirits up during boring free periods at school, and let me feel like I was really cool by reading it (as cool as I ever got at school, which wasn't very, because I read too much and answered questions in class -- you know the type). It was fun returning to it now: the jokes and puns are familiar by now, and I greeted each character like an old friend. I still adore Aziraphale and would now like to crochet him a sweater, and perhaps I would give Crowley a pot plant to terrify.

Generally, this is an inventive and funny novel, and I love the way they choose to portray angels, demons, and the general struggle between them. I also love the way they choose to wrap things up: Adam's moment of choice is perfect, his decision, the small ways the world changes afterward. The two authors worked well together, for my money, and created something that is more than either of them would be apart. Some parts are obviously one or the other, but not many.

In the latest ebook edition, there's also a short interview with them and a piece from each about how they met the other. They didn't write those blind, without talking to the other, and so somehow those bits still have a bit of the style of the other, and they tend to agree on events. I love the image it gives of them, though, ringing each other up excitedly to contribute bits of the story -- there's a kind of joy in creation here that I find it impossible not to appreciate.

Maybe one thing I could do without is the constant harping on Aziraphale being 'a Southern pansy' and the like. It might be funny once or twice, illustrative of the type of person (angel) Aziraphale is, but this time through I started rolling my eyes at the gay jokes. Particularly as I recall Gaiman and Pratchett kind of denying the undercurrent between Crowley and Aziraphale that becomes completely apparent if you start taking notice of how often everyone assumes it.

It's like someone said to me in university: "You know when people keep saying, 'oh, if we keep doing this people will think we're a couple?' Most of the time, it really means, 'I wish we were a couple and I want people to think that'." Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship is highlighted so many times that that's the effect, for me.

I know many will disagree with me however, I did not enjoy this book. I found it to lack any real prose, plot, and natural flow. The author's rambled on and on and on never really progressing the story.
I did find some humor but most humor seemed forced than natural. You can tell the different writing styles of both authors and the book did one thing for me. I know I will not read another Gaiman book. I attempted American Gods and he rambles way too much for me. Pratchett on the other hand I will have to give him an honest read. To sum it up, the story's undertone is very much Deist. I give the rating a mere two stars because there was some snippets of good humor but you had to read several rambling pages of text in between. A 2 star for me would be just a good entertaining read.

So glad the series fixed so many of the things in the book that bugged me. Also, missing Pratchett a lot right now.

When I first read this book, in 1991, I found it gripping, but I came out of it feeling drained, and not sure what to make of the experience. Not a good aftertaste.

I didn’t try it again until I saw the 6-episode Amazon Prime miniseries of it in 2019; I still wasn’t really keen on the story, but I thought it was a great production, and entertaining overall.

So I tried reading the book again, and I find that I gradually like it better; I get some laughs out of it every time, it’s funny in patches. But it’s an odd sort of story. It builds up to a climax and then fails to achieve one; most of the main characters have little effect on the main story; and the most important character seems like an incidental character for much of the time.

The authors were trying to make a point, and I think they probably succeeded in making it. However, from a dramatic point of view, it seems a story with a rather weak ending, to which the adventures of the characters make little or no contribution.

What do I like about this book? I love Adam and his gang (the Them), who are wonderful and pure Pratchett; he made a superb job of them. I quite like Crowley and Aziraphale, and Agnes and Anathema, although they’re almost irrelevant to the plot.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse probably ought to be there, so they are there, but they don’t have much to do. The other four motorbikers are just a pointless waste of time. Shadwell and Madame Tracy are irrelevant; Madame Tracy is mildly diverting, but I could do without Shadwell. Newton Pulsifer seems to become somewhat relevant, but his part in the plot wasn’t really necessary, Adam could have dealt with it.

Despite my reservations, I’ll raise the book from 3 to 4 stars, because it’s all readable, parts of it are really funny, and I sympathize with the moral of the story—although its moral seems a bit fuzzy to me, and I’m not sure that my understanding of it is 100% accurate.

Taken a while to get to and takes a second to get into the style if you’re not familiar, but this is a very witty apocalypse with memorable characters and a lot of poking fun. I listened to it as audiobook and was definitely more in a space of wanting to continue, appreciating the levity wrapped around a lot of serious topics that remain relevant.

I thought I might like this book. While listening to it with my siblings on out short road trip I was laughing, but I realized later I was laughing because my siblings were laughing. Once I started listening to it on my own to finish it, it got less interesting. Too many unimportant characters to keep track of. Not bad, but overall not my cup of tea. Sorry Gaiman & Pratchett.

Good Omens is good fun! A hilarious look at the idea of Armageddon.