Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Highly enjoyable

Bewertung aus Zürich am 08.03.2020
Bewertungsnummer: 1301759
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

The queer energy in this one is strong. It has its weaknesses but the shortcomings are ignorable since the characters are funny, lovable and entertaining (for the most part), the humour sharp and witty and the commentary on point as ever. The story is about Armaggedon. Aziraphel and Crowley, an angel and demon respectively, are tasked to do angelic and demonic things on Earth. But during all this time, they become friends and come to enjoy human things, like food and entertainment. Both decide that Armageddon kinda s*cks so they set out to stop the Antichrist, a child, so they can continue Earthly life. The result is a highly engaging story where two authors clearly went "F*ck it, let's throw in every and any idea we have" and just rolled with everything that popped into their head. They had fun writing and I had fun reading.

no proper plot

Bewertung aus Wien am 16.01.2021
Bewertungsnummer: 1238681
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

Good Omens suffers from the same problem as all the Pratchett books I've read (most of them early works) - it has no actual plot. Yes, there's the original idea, the typical charming style, the usual cast of quirky characters. But this promising base material is only felted into a fluffy ball of creative cotton wool instead of strung into narrative strands and knit into a tight story. One recurring flaw in Pratchett’s work seems to be a lack of strong, active antagonists, which in turn leads to undermotivated, passive protagonists, who mostly just float through a succession of loosely connected cute scenes. This becomes even more evident in the serial adaptation of Good Omens, which is by nature way less forgiving of structural shortcomings than a novel. I mean, you know there’s something not quite right if a telly show is kinda boring despite having David Tennant in it.