This note contains spoilers for the book.

One thing my booknotes scripts doesn't handle decently is joint authorship. Good Omens is actually by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. It's interesting to note the order of the names -- Terry was much better known when this was published than Neil was, so normal wisdom would have said the best strategy was to list his name first.

I fell in love with this book the first time I read it, and have reread it several times since then. It has, for me, the perfect blend of serious and humorous.

It also has a nice "English" feel, but modern. A lot of my reading set in England is relatively old, pre-WWII at least. This book has a very nice feel of being set in a modern place that developed from that older place, if you see what I mean. (I've visited there myself many times, in the 60's and then a new batch in the 80's and 90's.)

The overall plot, which I like a lot, is that the world "corrupts" an angel, a demon, and the antichrist, thus allowing them to avert armageddon and allow the world to continue to exist. I like this on all sorts of levels.