Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I absolutely adore this book; I've read it at least three times, and it just gets better every time I read it. It's very funny but also contains some pretty insightful commentary on human nature and the possibility of the divine. For me, the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley is the heart of the book; I also love the Them. Every time I read it, I am amazed at seamlessly it reads; coauthoring is hard, yo!



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I have so many comments to answer, but I know you want to hear my thoughts on Fear the Walking Dead, Jane Eyre, and the Tiffany Aching series.

I'm not cutting this as I don't think any of what I'm about to say is especially spoilery, so be forewarned.

Re: FtWD--I just don't know that I buy the central thesis of this franchise, that when the world goes to shit, we instantly and collectively go to shit morally and ethically. I just don't know that I buy the premise that only the morally depraved survive, that the key to making it through the apocalypse is turning into something arguably worse than the apocalypse itself. Would we really turn on each other so quickly? Would everyone really become evil and/or evil adjacent so rapidly? I'm really interested in what you think about this. Does the nature of the apocalypse matter? Do monsters have different consequences than global natural disaster?

Re: Jane Eyre--Just finished this weekend. Loved it. The romance aspect of the novel seems incredibly modern to me. This is 19th century Moonlighting. The banter and the witty repartee (so utterly different from Wilde in character) is fantastic. The language is beautiful, Jane's interior world (particularly as a child) feels so real and interesting to me. I see why this has been an enduring classic.

Re: Tiffany Aching--I'm re-reading and Emma's reading these for the first time. We just read Wee Free Men and are someways into Hat Full of Sky. I've read Wintersmith but not the last two books. I think Tiffany Aching is the finest arc he's written. The descriptions of Granny Aching and the Chalk and the way the land is in Tiffany's bones--the prose is so fine, so beautiful. I despair of ever writing anything that gets anyone in the gut the way those passages affect me. I laugh out loud every three seconds in between wiping the tears from my eyes. I know that the final novel (*the* final novel) has reaped its share of criticism, but I am really crossing my fingers that it lives up its predecessors.