Lucy's Reviews > Good Omens

It’s not often I laugh while reading books. I remember last time I laughed aloud while reading. I was eleven years old, nose jammed between the pages of ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’ and I was in a silent library. The rest of the class were perfectly silent. I, on the other hand, had tears running down my face and I was laughing hysterically like a mule. My English teacher, a stern and austere woman came over and had words. I spent the rest of the lesson in silence, not reading.

Good Omens was a far superior experience. No scary English teacher breathing down my neck, and more laughs per minute. I even read it super slowly to conserve the specialness. This is without a doubt the funniest book I’ve ever read. I often scan my book shelf, and find it void of comedy – and mostly full of sad books. I’m not a sad person but I often find ‘comedy’ or ‘funny’ books to be drastically unfunny. The genius of Sir Terry and Neil Gaiman is fucking amazing. ‘Good Omens’ is a laugh out loud book, with fabulous characters such as Anathema Device, Adam, Crowley and Aziraphale. It is so cleverly told, you don’t realise two people wrote this book together. It reads like one person wrote it. There’s no jarring, off putting difference between Gaiman and Pratchett’s styles.

Good Omens is a fantastic, hilarious book.