Good Omens is being made into a four-part tv movie.

By Terry Jones.

Yes, that Terry Jones. The one who was in Monty Python and is a medieval scholar and writes his own fairy tales ( Read more... )

the most important lasting impression the story left on me...


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stayed up till 3am last night finishing it. thought it was rather good.

overall: lovely premise, with some wickedly funny dry-british-humour lines. also, crowley and aziraphale are my new OTP. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

had big problems with the end, though. the ending was a bit...er...yeah. wasn't it? it was the same problem gaiman had with the climax in ( Read more... )

assorted giggles: happy chubby not!dead elvis flipping burgers. the readers being right about baby b and his prize-winning tropical fish. the descendents' wry footnotes to agnes's prophecies: 'i feel good agnes had drunk well this night.' just about anything involving crowley and aziraphale. which reminds me ( Read more... )

1. opening crowley/aziraphale scene = best. scene. EVER. (i started reading this book ages ago and stopped around the baby-swap, but remember loving the opening scene. still do)

2. i'm just going to take it as read that we're meant to be imagining hastur and ligur as peter cook and dudley moore. (hey, i called it when gaiman used them in shoggoth' ( Read more... )

...neil gaiman knows what slash is (scroll down to the good omens cover - and he's quite right; it is. a lot).

this knowledge may well keep me cheerful for several days.

Q
reason #438 for me to finally read good omens - this, plus mentally casting john simm and david tennant as crowley and aziraphale