[ SECRET POST #3025 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3025 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

08. http://i.imgur.com/08flRlE.png

[(Anonymous)]

Eh. It is what it is. It's not ~Great Literature~ but it's a fun read, mostly funny, with well-described protagonists (the kids are a bit thin, but really, they're not exactly main characters, so), and an easy storyline that's engaging while you're reading it, but not so heavy that you need to keep track of where you are.

...it also helps if you've read great whacking chunks of the Book of Revelation on a regular basis through the years. Makes the satire 9000X funnier, IME.

[(Anonymous)]

Revelations is a comedy all in itself. It's crazy stuff. Pressing the earth in a grape press, and so on. When I was a kid I read all the Bible once through, just to give it a chance. I had to read Revelations twice, it was so bizarre.

It was the book of Revelation that went a long way to stopping me believing in God. There's a part where it names the exact amount of people who are allowed to enter heaven, for all time. The number is tiny and it would have been reached a long time ago. All those people today who have been "saved" and think they're going to heaven are in for a nasty shock. Heaven has an inflexible quota, according to the Bible. Unless it's one in, one out, in which case being good and going to heaven is the most evil thing you can do, since you're sending an innocent person to hell like that.

Good Omens makes a lot more sense after reading that book.

[(Anonymous)]

You mean the 144 000 virgin boys? It's been a while since I read John's Apocalypse. It's not a good book.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Hmmmm, sounds like you stopped a few chapters short of the end. It gets better (yeah, just like the trope), for everyone. Hint: Try chaps. 21-22. Once you get past the whole battle of Megiddo thing, everybody gets on the salvation train. Protip: No so-called "Christian" church, ever, anywhere, will preach this. Doesn't bring in nearly as many tithe dollars as the whole "Weeeeee are the only ones saaaaaaaaaaaaaved erryone else gonna BUUUUUURN" schtick. (There's no "Hell" in the Bible like is preached in churches. That's courtesy of Dante's "Divine Comedy.")

Which doesn't even get into the whole ball of wax the "It's only a metaphor, see" stuff-ology about the Revelation that tends to get preached from most pulpits these days.

TL;DR: Reading the Book of Revelation makes Good Omens way funnier.

[(Anonymous)]

I like you. Theology high-five!

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Well on the "no Hell" thing, I know at least one church who does say that, or at least I hope they're still saying it or something has gone majorly wrong since I got too lazy to go.

I find the whole idea of Hell rather gruesome, and still don't understand why people think it's better than annihilationism, as "eternal torment" implies, well, constant pain, forever.

op

[(Anonymous)]

I've read the Greek original and an English transtation

[(Anonymous)]

the two guys were fun enough. but the kid's part was hard to get through. the kid spelled everything out, instead of making it more subtle and effective.

[(Anonymous)]

While I liked the book overall, I found Shadwell's parts to be very boring, to be honest. Ditto Adam's.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm actually reading this now for the first time and I'm quite enjoying it. It reminds me of something Jasper Fforde might write (and I love his work).

[siofrabunnies]

There was a comment last week, saying that Good Omens is very much a product of the times. I think it came out in 1990, and it shows. It's very zeitgeist-y. I love the book, but I don't hold it up as some great masterpiece. It's just fun. Very likeable characters, funny quotes, mild British absurdism.

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[(Anonymous)]

Image: fanart of Aziriphale and Crowley (?)

Text: I found it tedious & unfunny.

Both the lot and the humor were too predictable. I wish I cold enjoy it more since I usually love stories like this.

bs: I disliked how the narrative tried to make Shadwell loveable

sb: Fans call it a brilliant masterpiece

[(Anonymous)]

predicAtable, op?
maybe long words are just not your thing =) try some books with more pictures in them maybe..

[(Anonymous)]

Looks like a typo to me, anon. Even if it wasn't, there's really no need to disparage anyone's intelligence over a misspelling. It doesn't make you look at all clever.

[(Anonymous)]

Some people don't like things you might like, anon. Their typos don't make your likes superior =) . FWIW, I couldn't even get through the darn thing. It sucks, because I'd never had an issue with Pratchett's books before (nor Gaiman's, though I tend to enjoy his a lot less).