David Bryant's Reviews > Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

This is a wonderful story, but I won't do a full review -- there are already thousands of them.
But I will make a couple of comments about the book as it relates to the Amazon Prime TV series based upon the book. I had watched the TV series before reading the book, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I read that there were some differences between the book and the TV script, as there always are, so I read the book partly to satisfy my curiosity about those differences. In addition, I discovered that two of my children and one grandchild are big fans of Terry Prachett, so I figured I should read the original story.
As it turns out, the TV series is mostly very true to the book. Indeed, reading the first half or so of the book was a bit boring, because the script followed it so closely, and the book lacked the visual element I had already enjoyed. In a few places, book is just a tad longer in certain sequences, with a bit more dialog and so on. And then there are some differences.
The biggest differences in the plot and dialog are in the latter portions of the book. The big crisis at the end unfolds somewhat differently in the book. But I think the TV show did a fine job of telling the story, even though the show changed some things.
One interesting difference in characters is that the characters of the Archangel Michael and his cohorts do not appear throughout the story as they do in the TV show, so there is less of a sense that "Big Brother" is watching the angel Aziraphale. And unless I am mistaken, the demon Crowley also has fewer communications from his "head office" in the book. On the other hand, the chapter on Sunday, the day after the world didn't end, is not in the TV series. These differences are not really important to the pleasure of the TV series, though. (I think the TV series was extremely well-done and enjoyable.)
One advantage of the book is that we do get a bit more explanation of things at the end, and especially of Adam's thoughts as he decides how to handle his situation.
So, very enjoyable, well-written, and I recommend the TV series as well -- but maybe after you read the book rather than before.

PS: It occurs to me as I think about this book that neither the book nor the Amazon TV show address the notion that Christian organizations promote about Armageddon, namely that the "good souls" (i.e., the ones who have followed a particular form of the Christian religion and acted accordingly) will be "saved" whereas the others will not be saved. I wonder if that would fit this story, in which the world is first to be destroyed by man's own nuclear weapons. My guess is that part was left out because it was too particular to specific religions, and possibly would be too personal, too dreadful to contemplate.