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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
3.0

I read this a number of years ago and remember walking away thinking it was kind of just okay, and I sort of feel that way about it again. It has Pratchett Tone all over it, which I don't mind, but also wow parts stuck out as... more racist than I remember. Pratchett does this thing in Discworld too sometimes, where a character says some pretty racist shit, but it's excused because he's a misanthrope who hates everyone, and like uh maybe in 1990 but not really now. (This is not to aim all blame at Pratchett, Gaiman also clearly has responsibility, but it's a trend I've noticed as I've been reading Also I'm not sure if it's because this was an audiobook, but there's a part where the narrator went ahead and used a fairly racist "Asian" accent and I'd love it if we didn't.

Also the Crowley and Aziraphale parts were... not that interesting to me? Frankly this book should have been 12 beautiful hours of Adam and Them doing things and talking, they were the best part and the most interesting to me. This could be because I had a hard time distinguishing between the voices the narrator used for Crowley and Aziraphale, but I just found the parts they were in to be uh not as interesting as other parts.

Overall, I found this like. Kind of disappointing. Again. So just not for me!