Thursday, October 18, 2018

Good Omens

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett  384 pp.

Every so often I have to read this book because it is one of my favorites. Without giving too much away, the anti-Christ is born and then misplaced. A bookstore owning angel and a demon who drives a vintage Bentley are trying to locate the child, who was swapped for the wrong baby at birth, to either stop the end of the world because they both rather like their lives on Earth. Of course there are the Four Horsemen. . . , um, Bikers of the Apocalypse. And a witch descended from Agnes Nutter. It is pretty well summed up in one quote:

"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."

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