Good Omens

A collaboration of two authors, one I have read before and will read again, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett write a witty (high-brow wit) fantasy book called Good Omens.  I will be reading one of Gaiman’s other book (Anansi Boys soon) and read Marvel 1602.  Well, Satan decides to have a child and he will be born on earth!  Guess who is working together on earth, the good angel and the bad angel (Good and Evil {Aziraphale & Crowley} – how does that happen?) Complacency and they actually like each other, plus they think living on Earth is better than the two other options.  When they are looking for the antichrist they are surprised on whom it is supposed to be, ahhh… ever hear of baby switching at birth?  A technique used often on soap operas, is actually used here.  Aziraphale & Crowley think it is Warlock who is the antichrist, but no, it is Adam Young, growing up in a perfectly nice English home.  Adam doesn’t know at 11 years old the powers he has to potentially begin the Apocalypse.  Enter the four horsemen, plus the two angels looking for the antichrist.  Following the prophecies of Agnes Nutter (burned at the stake in the 17^th century) though her prophecies live on in book form in the hands of her great-great-great-great (you get the idea) lost descendant,  Anathema Device.  Anathema and her new friend, Newton Pulsifer, whose great-great-great-great (you get the idea) actually burned Agnes, also join the hunt for Adam. Will they stop the Armageddon?  All I know is that the ending has the “friends” Crowley and Aziraphale at lunch at the Ritz. There are side-plots and secondary stories as well, and a very nice dog! Funny tale, but overall not for me.  This book has a major cult following.  I guess I’m just not a funny guy!