具体描述
There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world's last two remaining witch-finders are getting ready to fight the good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. . . . Right. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. </p>
Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon -- each of whom has lived among Earth's mortals for many millennia and has grown rather fond of the lifestyle -- are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they've got to find and kill the Antichrist (which is a shame, as he's a really nice kid). There's just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him. . . . </p>
First published in 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind's final judgment is back -- and just in time -- in a new hardcover edition (which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort) that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things. </p>
作者简介
Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe.
Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. In 1987, he turned to writing full time.
There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.
A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006).
In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. Terry published Snuff in October 2011.
Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Warwick in 1999, the University of Portsmouth in 2001, the University of Bath in 2003, the University of Bristol in 2004, Buckinghamshire New University in 2008, the University of Dublin in 2008, Bradford University in 2009, the University of Winchester in 2009, and The Open University in 2013 for his contribution to Public Service.
In Dec. of 2007, Pratchett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. On 18 Feb, 2009, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
He was awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2010.
Sir Terry Pratchett passed away on 12th March 2015.
About Neil Gaiman
I make things up and write them down. Which takes us from comics (like SANDMAN) to novels (like ANANSI BOYS and AMERICAN GODS) to short stories (some are collected in SMOKE AND MIRRORS) and to occasionally movies (like Dave McKean's MIRRORMASK or the NEVERWHERE TV series, or my own short film A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON).
In my spare time I read and sleep and eat and try to keep the blog at www.neilgaiman.com more or less up to date.
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读后感
在看这本书之前，我想我一定还是和大多数读者一样没有完全做好准备。 我认为在所有文字的前面，《好兆头》首页应该是一份注意事项：要提前做好心理准备，因为这是一本奇特的、有趣的、温暖的却出乎意料的书。 要知道，这可是大名鼎鼎的特里·普拉切特与尼尔·盖曼一些写出的书...
评分67, look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, If you're going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he wi...
评分67, look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, If you're going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he wi...
评分《圣经》故事里，亚当和夏娃受蛇引诱，吃下了“明辨善恶”的果子，被逐出了伊甸园。记得以前看到这里时，非常不理解，上帝造人，又不让他们“明辨善恶”，难道是要他们让永远“蒙昧无知”？那这样的上帝，有什么值得崇敬的？作为一个非基督徒，一个对《圣经》所知不多的现代人...
用户评价
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评分真是爱死Aziraphale和Crowley这一对活宝了！自从鹿鼎记的韦小宝之后，这两个大概是我最爱的小说角色了！／only at 22%, absolutely love the bickering of the angel(Aziraphale) and the fallen angel (Crowley). Hilarious! :)
评分好！很不错！两个人也能合作出很棒的文吧～
评分BBC广播剧，超赞。
评分原版好赞……冷死贱死还有被删掉的喇嘛看……
评分Some parts of the story were extremely enjoyable. There were, however, simply too many other things in it that I couldn't care less about. I see certain readers have commented on Gaiman's written portions being too dark to their liking. I, on the other hand, found Pratchett's overly lighthearted nuances mildly irritating.
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