Good Omens

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Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, explores themes of good vs. evil, free will, and the nature of humanity.

Summary:

Good Omens is a humorous and thought-provoking novel that tells the story of an angel and a demon who team up to prevent the apocalypse.

It is a comedy about the birth of the son of Satan and the coming of the End Times. There are attempts by the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley to sabotage the coming of the end times, having grown accustomed to their comfortable surroundings in England.

Famous Quotes:

″‘… it’s not enough to know what the future is. You have to know what it means.‘”

“You don’t have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.”

″‘I told you. On his eleventh birthday. At three o’clock in the afternoon. It’ll sort of home in on him. He’s supposed to name it himself.‘”

“The trouble with trying to find a brown-covered book among brown leaves and brown water at the bottom of a ditch of brown earth in the brown, well, grayish light of dawn, was that you couldn’t.”

″‘A demon can get into real trouble, doing the right thing.’ He nudged the angel. ‘Funny if we both got it wrong, eh? Funny if I did the good thing and you did the bad one, eh?‘”

″‘DON’T THINK OF IT AS DYING,’ said Death, ‘JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.‘”

Literary awards:

Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1991)
World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1991)
Audie Award Nominee for Audio Drama and for Fantasy (2023)

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