Status Check

Finished: Good Omens (great!  highly recommended!)
Now Reading: Cat's Eye (by Atwood) - so far liking it but am early in.
Next Book: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - I'm kind of procrastinating on this one cause it's big and because people get "so much out of it" that I'm worried it will be a let-down.

Good Omens Review

This was my book on the plane and I sped through it instead of sleeping.  It is hilarious and dead-on for tone.  Even the small, side-characters are well developed & seem right out of Monty Python. One identifies with the central hellish & heavenly (former) inhabitants, and can recognize in the eleven-year-old AntiChrist the boy you raced bikes with around the neighborhood when you rode a 10-speed. And that doesn't even cover what they (it's co-authored) did to the poor Hound of Hell! I've already laughed out loud several times and can't seem to stop revisiting passages in my head. Angel Aziraphale & demon Crowley are awesome and there are things to learn as well - particularly in the remarkable critiques of modern music.

My only real complaint might be the four horsepersons of the Apocolypse. War (a.k.a. Carmen, a.k.a Scarlett, a.k.a. "Red Zuigiber", Pollution a.k.a. "Pale" a.k.a. Chalky a.k.a. "White" & Death (no nicknames required) are all fairly one-dimensional. My favorite of the four is definitely Famine a.k.a. Raven Sable a.k.a. "Black" - who's creative means of starving humanity with his famous trademarked unfood products are British cheek at its best. All in all, I'm enjoying where this is leading (and as the Apocolypse nears, I'm getting further & further sucked in)!

One of the witticisms early on;
"IT IS SAID THAT THE DEVIL HAS ALL THE BEST TUNES.
This is broadly true. But Heaven has all the best choreographers."