Good Omens

Yes.

Pratchett is the creator of the massive 41 book Discworld series, and he co-authored Good Omens.

He completely revolutionized the genre by blending laugh-out-loud, surreal comedy with deeply profound philosophical insight.

His method of deconstruction was satirical humor and sharp social commentary.

It sounds awful.

It does, which by the way, segues perfectly into book four, which is a comedic absolute classic that takes bureaucracy to a cosmic level, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

A legendary collaboration.

A-

You want escapism.

Exactly.

If you make magic this mundane, like if it is heavily regulated by the police budget in Rivers of London or bogged down by heavenly paperwork and HR complaints in Good Omens, hasn't the author just recreated the most boring part of my Tuesday?

That's a valid point.

no it's not disc world it's the one he did with um the guy who wrote american gods

Oh, Good Omens.

Good Omens,

yes.

One of my favorite quotes from Good Omens is, you know, books about witchcraft claim that women dance naked under the moon.

This is because most books about witchcraft are written by men.

Yeah.

It grounds the fairy tale in emotional realism, and you see that exact same humanistic subversion applied to Christian theology in his 1990 collaboration with Terry Pratchett.

Good Omens.

Good Omens.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, which it is a legendary text.

It really is.

And it wasn't just a division of labor where one wrote the plot and the other wrote the jokes.

They are depicted as massive, incompetent corporate bureaucracies.

That's so funny.

Um, have you read anything by Terry Pratchett?

I don't s- oh, um, I read Good Omens, right? He co-wrote that with Neil Gaiman.

He wrote that with Neil Gaiman, the, the-

Perfect guy

Um, yeah.

I read the...

I read the book Good Omens.

Is that a series? I, I, I read that.

Excellent.

To segue from our Discworld Delight, let us bring up Good Omens.

Let's bring it up, Mary.

Now that one is all about religion.

Good Omen? Do you mean Hogfather? No, I mean Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

It's not a Discworld book, but it's by Terry Pratchett.

Sorry, I was thinking of books we've covered.