Wow.. Just, wow. The wit. The satire. The cynicism. Amazing. It. Causes. Me. To. Speak. In. One. Word. Sentences. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman are gawds(1). Being a rather sarcastic being myself(2), I enjoyed this hilarious decline to the apocalypse immensely.
An Angel and a Demon, realizing that they both rather like their existence on the current earth, team up to try and circumvent the end of the world. Sister Mary Loquacious, a nun of the Satanic Chattering Order of St. Beryl, switches the cute little tike of the Antichrist for the wrong baby. The Antichrist raises the sunken city of Atlantis from beneath the sea. The Four Horsemen ride Harley's, and a certain Witch Finder, Sergeant Shadwell, is seen on the back of a flying pink scooter, wearing a green helmet and holding on to a possessed, middle-aged woman for dear life.
As you can see, this book has pretty much got it all. From a book entitled The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, foretelling either events leading up to the end of the world, or just the burning of a bean soup in Russia, to a nuclear power plant's fuel source being transformed into a small lemon drop.
Threats are exchanged, points are proven, and nearly everything is described as ineffable.
(1) - See "School" post for use of W's
(2) - Blame my father
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