The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion: Your guide to Armageddon and the series based on the bestselling novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

My younger son is a great fan of [a:Terry Pratchett|1654|Terry Pratchett|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1235562205p2/1654.jpg], so I bought this book as a birthday present for him, and when he finished he passed it back to me to read. Terry Pratchett is not my cup of tea, and the only one of his Discworld books I've tried to read I never managedf to finish. But I have enjoyed books by [a:Neil Gaiman|1221698|Neil Gaiman|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1234150163p2/1221698.jpg], and I quite enjoyed this one.

It's about an angel and a demon, Aziraphale and Crowley, who are charged by their respective principals with some of the preparations for the battle of Armageddon, but make some serious errors, which they then together attempt to cover up.

The Antichrist, who was meant to be brought up by an American diplomat, and presumably to grow up in a position to be able to influence the statesment of the world, is instead entrusted to an accountant and his wife in a small English country town. Aziraphale and Crowley are desperate to get him to fulfil his destiny, but his middle-class upbringing and healthy country living seem to thwart them at every turn. In fact his life as a schoolboy with his friends seem to resemble that of [a:Richmal Crompton|95840|Richmal Crompton|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1225039204p2/95840.jpg]'s William Brown. In fact one possible alternative title for the book was William the Antichrist.

While it isn't the best book I've read, and not even the best end of the world book I've read, it certainly makes better reading than [b:The Late Great Planet Earth|899325|The Late Great Planet Earth|Hal Lindsey|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348728131s/899325.jpg|884511] by [a:Hal Lindsey|11197|Hal Lindsey|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66-e07624dc012f2cce49c7d9aa6500c6c0.jpg].