Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry PratchettMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
So I just now read this, 30 years after its first publication. I think it would work well as a book to recommend to someone younger--the humor mostly holds up and you get a kind of aside look at what technology was like in 1990. Cell phones were an anomaly, requiring antennas on top of the cars. Most people didn't have computers. Traffic was awful, just as today.
And it's a nice fun romp of a book, plenty of visual possibilities in it, so it's kind of hard to say why it didn't get made into a show sooner.
If you think of angels and demons representing Good and Evil, then this book will confuse you. Pratchett and Gaiman treat them more as representatives of different political parties--different public positions but working together on the side to keep things going. Of course that's in well-functioning democracies, of which there are fewer and fewer.
Definitely worth reading, then and now.
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