Reviews
A slapstick Apocalypse, a grinning grimoire, a comic Necronomicon, a hitchhiker's guide to the netherworld., Something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated., What's So Funny about Armageddon? more than You'd Think . . . Good Omens Has Arrived Just in Time., [L]ittle asides, quirky observations, simple puns and parody eventually add up to snorts, chortles and outright laughs., "The Apocalypse has never been funnier." -- Clive Barker "Hilariously naughty." -- Kirkus Reviews "Wacky and irreverent." -- Booklist "Reads like the Book of Revelation, rewritten by Monty Python." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Fiendishly funny." -- New Orleans Times-Picayune "From beginning to end, GOOD OMENS is side-splittingly funny . . . a ripping good time." -- Rave Reviews "If you've never read [GOOD OMENS], don't miss it now. Grade: A." -- Rocky Mountain News "It could be called The Hitchhiker's Guide to Armargeddon." -- Palm Beach Post "[L]ittle asides, quirky observations, simple puns and parody eventually add up to snorts, chortles and outright laughs." -- San Diego Union-Tribune "What's so funny about Armageddon? More than you'd think . . . GOOD OMENS has arrived just in time." -- Detroit Free Press "Full-bore contemporary lunacy. A steamroller of silliness that made me giggle out loud." -- San Diego Union-Tribune "A direct descendant of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." -- New York Times "An utter delight--fresh, exciting, uproariously funny." -- Poul Anderson "Outrageous . . . read it for a riotous good laugh!" -- Orlando Sentinel "I whooped . . . I laughed . . . I was in near hysterics.: -- New York Review of Science Fiction "A slapstick Apocalypse, a grinning grimoire, a comic Necronomicon, a hitchhiker's guide to the netherworld." -- James Morrow, author of Only Begotten Daughter "One Hell of a funny book." -- Gene Wolfe "Hilarious!" -- Locus "Huge fun." -- Sunday Express (London) "Irreverently funny and unexpectedly wise . . . Highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated." -- Washington Post
