Good Omens: A Full Cast Production

Written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Narrated by Rebecca Front, Michael Sheen, David Tennant and 15 more

A brand new full cast audiobook production of the classic collaboration from internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett starring Rebecca Front as the Narrator, Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, and David Tennant as Crowley!

""Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It’s a wow. It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick.""—Washington Post

According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.

So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .

Don’t miss Season 2 of the Prime original series!

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Supernatural Beings

Rebecca Front: Narrator

Michael Sheen: Aziraphale

David Tennant: Crowley

 

Humans

Katherine Kingsley: Anathema Device

Arthur Darvill: Newton Pulsifer

Peter Forbes: Shadwell

Gabrielle Glaister: Madame Tracy and Agnes Nutter

 

Them

Louis Davison: Adam

Pixie Davies: Pepper

Chris Nelson: Wensleydale

Ferdinand Frisby Williams: Brian

 

Ensemble

Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, John Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves, and Lemn Sissay

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperAudio
• Release date: Nov 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9780062896957

Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling and multi-award winning author and creator of many beloved books, graphic novels, short stories, film, television and theatre for all ages. He is the recipient of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and many Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner Awards. Neil has adapted many of his works to television series, including Good Omens (co-written with Terry Pratchett) and The Sandman. He is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR and Professor in the Arts at Bard College. For a lot more about his work, please visit: https://www.neilgaiman.com/

Reviews for Good Omens

[moniquesnyman-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Well, it's that time again... You know, the time when the end of the world is nigh and stuff. Yeah. But this time we have Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's version of it to enjoy, and boy is it an enjoyable, hilarious journey. I loved this book from beginning to end, reading snippets to my husband as I went to make him laugh, too.

Truthfully, I just wanted to read the book before the TV series started, but I simply can't believe why I hadn't picked up this gem before. It's really the best of two legendary authors captured in one book.

I LOVED IT!

[Chris · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great book. I would love to have follow ups on Crowley and azeraphael

[Harrison Tescher · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A wonderful story if you're a fan of either writers work

[debbie13410 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

A humorous tale of an Angel and Devil in partnership to save humanity from the antichrist. I didn't think it was funny. I understand why it has a cult following because the writing is very good. Except for a few clever remarks about modern life, I didn't like it at all. I tried to read the whole thing but I did a lot of skipping to the end, Thank God.

[eavans-914612 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Man, I really don't think I do comedy.

I didn't find this book funny. Most of the characters are annoying. Every section including the horsemen, the Them, and Anathema is dull. There isn't much sense in the physics of anything either. Basically, I blacked out halfway through and couldn't finish. Obviously though, I'm in the minority. (I did enjoy the Crowley/Aziraphale sections though. Should have been the whole book. Oh well.)

[Megan · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Loved having Tennant and Sheen for the audiobook. It's the next best thing to Gaiman himself narrating.

[jt4 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great book and its great for you to enjoy your time with the family and friends

[mooingzelda · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What a wonderful novel Good Omens is! It has everything: a very British sense of humour, a cast of mostly slightly inept but endearing characters who you can't help but root for (even when they're on Satan's side), and a ridiculous but gripping plot. I'm already a Terry Pratchett fan, but I went out and bought one Neil Gaiman's novels when I was partway through Good Omens because I thought it was probably criminal that I hadn't read anything of his previously.Honestly, this was exactly what I needed to get me through the political shambles of Brexit at the moment (now there's a topic that Gaiman and Pratchett would've excelled at skewering in a book!).

[Cheryl Lee · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved that there was a cast of characters reading this book. It was almost like watching it!

[Aurora Winter · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Amazing story well performed by a great cast. Highly recommended!

[Jack Black · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was a surprisingly interesting and very good book, well thought out and cleverly put together. Thank you to the authors for teaming up on this one. I don't know if they will be writing another one together but if they did I would definitely read it.

[Drew Dickinson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is one of my favorite books. It's so good.

[Orion Ferguson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Whimsical and amazing. Enjoyed every part and had many audible laughs.

[Andrew Wells · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Very good performances. The story feels very dated to 1990, but it is light and funny.

[Maria Carabana · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wonderful voice acting and great writing. Loved every second. Absolutely hilarious and very engaging.

[headinherbooks_27 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Funny and satisfying. Neil Gaiman is one of my favorites but this one is not one of my favorites from him, yet I don't mind re-reading this later in the future.

[nu5bibliophile · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Funny and satisfying. Neil Gaiman is one of my favorites but this one is not one of my favorites from him, yet I don't mind re-reading this later in the future.

[eurekas_5 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book was by two authors. It was Neil Gaiman's original idea and Terry Pratchett offered to either buy it from him or co-author it. The combination works. In an interview Neil Gaiman said before it was published he did not have any feeling for how popular it would be, or even if it would get published and has been happily surprised at how popular it is. He said it is a mistake to think he wrote the dark bits and Terry Pratchett wrote the funny parts. It is much more intermixed than that. In the interview he said he couldn't say all of which parts were whose but did say that he wrote the end part about the 4 motorcyclists of the Apocalypse and that Terry Pratchett wrote Agnes Nutter's burning scene. The combined effort is brilliant, high comedy, meaningful and well written.

[bfertig_2 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Several friends of mine found this very funny, but truthfully I found it on the verge of boring. Much silliness, yes, but none of it really laugh-out-loud funny, or really even all that clever. Felt very 1990s to me for some reason.

[jessiqa_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I first read this two years ago and loved it. I was working a crappy job and read a torrented ebook copy at the desk while at work. It made life just that much more bearable. For that I thank Messers Gaiman and Pratchett. This is also the reason I chose to reread it with my book club. Good Omens is a tale of the Apocalypse. The end is drawing near and yet the Anti-Christ has gone missing, been misplaced, is more accurate. It's up to an angel and a demon, who are as close to friends as two beings who work for opposing teams can be, to find the Anti-Christ and try to end this messy end of the world business, since both of them have rather grown used to life on earth and have no real desire to return to their respective places of origin. As one can expect from Pratchett and Gaiman, the story contains a myriad of confounding and endearing characters who make things as insane as possible so that the reader has to set the book aside for a few moments just to take a breath. I love this sort of book.About a week before the date of the book club, one of the ladies said to me, "Well, I read your Good Omens . . . Let's just say that I've read better books." Two days before the book club, my coworker tells me that at least three ladies have told her that they hated the book. Damn. So I got all paranoid and neurotic over it for the next two days, thinking that they must have found the topic offensive and therefore not at all funny. I hadn't thought that would be a problem when I chose the book, since I'd been doing this book club for almost a year and knew these ladies' tastes to a certain degree by now. Day of the book club: The religious aspect had nothing to do with their dislike of the book. They both simply found it hard to read. One even stated that for a comedy, the humor was too subtle. Alright, I got it now. This was okay; this was something I could understand. They didn't dig the writing style, no biggie. Pratchett's style is a little confusing with so many characters and subplots that it just builds and builds and can be a bit overwhelming. I tend to like this, but I had read quite a lot of Pratchett before I ever got to Good Omens, so I was used to his style. This was the first Gaiman novel I had ever read, though I've read a few others since.It's always fun rereading a book. I found a few things that I had not noticed the first time around. For instance, one of the aliens is a robot shaped like a pepper pot that is an obvious reference to the Daleks from Doctor Who, but I never watched or knew anything about that show until last summer, so I didn't catch the reference my first time around. I wonder what else I'll find the next time I read it, because it's pretty certain that I'll want to read this book again and again.I think Daddy will be wanting to borrow this book from me sometime in the near future. Perhaps I'll simply take it home with me next time I go to visit the parentals. Verdict: I still love the book, though I agree with the ladies that the ending left something wanting and wasn't wholly satisfying. All the laughs make up for this in my mind, but they didn't get the laughs out of it that I did, so they felt it discolored what few good points they found in the book.*Lesson: Never ask a book club to read a favorite book again, because I will consider their judgement of the book a judgement of me, even though I know damn well that that isn't the case.* They thought the footnotes were often the funniest parts. Can't argue there.

[5dan · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is not the Discworld. No Rincewind, no nightwatch, no witches.. only the 'real' world, with 'real' problems, like end of the world and war between heaven and hell that shall begin in just a few days. Antichrist, the son of Satan, was born 11 years ago and his duty is to win the war in favor of hell. Or isn't it so?

[meadhbh_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is the book that got me hooked on both Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. It is also easily the single most hilarious book I have ever read in my life, and I continue to return to it anytime I'm in need of a good laugh.This is one of those books that people are forced to buy multiple times, because if you let someone borrow it you'll never get it back and you're bound to read it so many times the pages fall out. I know I have.Terry Pratchett is one of the best satirists working today, a talent on the level of Jonathan Swift. Neil Gaiman has elevated the graphic novel to an art form worthy of induction into the literary canon. Put the two together, and they create a novel that will literally have you laughing so hard it hurts.

[ashcval · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Didn't find it laugh-out-loud funny, but still funny nevertheless. Clever references. Footnotes were sometimes the best part.

[Kelly · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great book. But chapter 3 of the audio book is duplicated. The chapter plays twice in a row.

[pennsylady · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

10 audio discs4 ★Prachett and Gaiman take us on a quirky mind-bending ride.Narration by Martin Jarvis is excellent (less)

[Annie Grieshop · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Far better than the series (& I enjoyed that, too). So lovely to hear Pratchett’s voice in the writing.

[virago77 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fantastic! This was an excellent listen. Great story; good narration and just fun. An Angel and Demon living through the ages of the world and becoming best friends while doing it. And together they help avert the apocalypse. It was simply brilliant.

[carlym_35 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I've read so many raves about Gaiman and Pratchett on LT that I really wanted to read some of their books, and this is the first one I've read (I know they don't generally write together). I thought it was pretty good--amusing, well-plotted, etc., but it didn't make me want to rush out and buy their other books. Some of the satire was a little too obvious or too cute, and that's just not as funny as it could be.

[jlharmon · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I really liked this book. It was fun to read, and I'm a sucker for humorous footnotes. Pratchett and Gaiman are both awesome, and you wouldn't think their writing styles would mess all that well, but the effect is something like Douglas Adams. Funny. Blasphemous. Smart. Plausible in the most impossible ways. A little dark if you think too much about it. But really fun to read.

Good Omens is the story of the end of the world, and the mistakes and blunders that complicate things for both Heaven and Hell. Oh, and there's this book with really specific accurate predictions that are coming true. And there's an awesome frenemy relationship between an angel and a demon. Cool. There are witches and witch hunters and delinquent kids and Horsemen and talking cars. It's fun.

I don't know why this book took me so long to finish, except that maybe there were too many little plots it took a while to digest. When you have angels, demons, their respective superiors and partners, multiple human main characters and their support, and random related events, you have to take your time.

If you're looking for a weird, funny, complicated, somewhat blasphemous take on the end of the world, Good Omens is a good place to start.

[valzi-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Gets a little dull and long by the end, but a lot of fun before it starts to drag. The ending feels a bit tacked on too. However, the characters are interesting and it has that Neil Gaiman magic for quite a while. I haven't read Pratchett before, so I have no idea if it lives up to Pratchett standards.