{"id":2406,"date":"2021-03-10T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2021-01-13T21:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T04:00:51","slug":"book-good-omens-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/10\/book-good-omens-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Good Omens (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GoodGood Omens<\/u><\/strong>
\nYear: 1990
\nAuthor: Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
\nLength: 753 minutes \/ 12.55 hours<\/p>\n

Perhaps I\u2019m in the minority here, but I only thought Good Omens<\/em> was just OK. You\u2019d think that the combination of two of the best British writers would create an incredible story, but I felt it was mostly disjointed, un-climatic, and full of that British humor that tends to be more random than based in actual jokes. Granted, most books by Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman that I\u2019ve read have been hit or miss, depending on how peculiarly random the subject might be. Sure, there are elements of a great story here; it just felt distracted from its main purpose half of the time.<\/p>\n

The core of Good Omens<\/em> is split into two parts: following the actual Antichrist who is unaware of his theological significance\/role in the end of the world and the journey of an angel and a demon who happened to lose said Antichrist. This idea’s strength is enough to give the story some merit, but the execution seemed flawed to me. Too much time was spent in random and meaningless interactions that didn\u2019t add to the story other than to be \u201chumorous\u201d for their pure obscurity. If anything, this type of humor is standard for Pratchett, so I\u2019m not surprised it was there, just disappointed that it seemed to play such a large part of the story.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure most people loved the relationship between the angel and the demon, but I almost found the actions of the unaware Antichrist to be much more interesting and would have liked that those parts of the book played more in the plot than just being a side story. I know Amazon made a television show of this book, so maybe I just missed something that the show might be able to reveal to me as to why this book was so popular. As for me, it was just kind of \u201cmeh.\u201d<\/p>\n

An interesting plot that suffers from British humor, I give Good Omens<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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