Good Omens

Being that it's past midnight and I am not the least bit tired (thanks to a certain early evening nap I decided to up and make a new blog). Now I've made blogs before and like so many blogs in the blogosphere left by the wayside I left those projects due to lack of interest and all around forgetting they existed (which, by the way ladies, are similar problematic results I have envisioned for myself concerning my children someday). This blog should hopefully last a bit longer because It has the luxury of not having a particular theme. This may also be the reason I end up losing interest and forgetting it exists. We'll see. Let's start this off with

my review of Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett:

I just finished reading this book tonight. It's a humorous take on the end of the world with reference to Christian doctrine. The book reads much like a Douglas Adams novel (the brilliance behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), of which I know Gaiman is a fan. It's kind of been my stress reliever betwixt books for school and other projects I'm working on so I've really been reading small bits on and off for about two months now. It feels good having another fantastic work of Neil Gaiman under my belt. A belt that, thanks to a birthday weekend and 3 different (very tasty) cakes, barely fits anymore and for this reason had me on a two mile run immediately after the completion of Good Omens.

While running I saw three raccoons, one of which seemed to be running just slightly behind me. At first I felt it was a sign of my natural bond with nature but then I remembered raccoons are known to have the whole rabies thing going for them so I picked up pace as to not risk little Meko catching up with me. It turns out (s)he was a nice addition to my run as the little Englishman who lives in my phone and gives me updates on my run at one point told me I was going a whopping 8.5 mph.

Mind you none of this running business has anything to do with the novel. But you didn't really want me to tell you about it. Trust me, you should just read it on your own (or at least Wikipedia's summery). Still I feel compelled to share a few of my favorite lines:

"They'd been brought up to it and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in ti-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow."

"They'd come up with some stomach-churning idea that no demon could have thought of in a thousand years, some dark and mindless unpleasantness that only fully functioning human brain could conceive, then shout "The Devil Made Me Do It" and get the sympathy of the court when the whole point was the Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn't have to."

"The real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind."

"She felt she looked haunted and gaunt and romantic, and she would have, if she lost another thirty pounds. She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person."

"He couldn't see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn't. And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."

My Rating of Good Omens:

7 Angels and One of the Fallen/ 10 Heavenly Beings My Rating of Tonight's Run:

5.5 Rabid Animals