作者:
Neil Gaiman
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Terry Pratchett 出版社: William Morrow 副标题: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch 出版年: 2006-03-01 页数: 384 定价: USD 29.95 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780060853969
There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the...
There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world's last two remaining witch-finders are getting ready to fight the good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. . . . Right. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. </p>
Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon -- each of whom has lived among Earth's mortals for many millennia and has grown rather fond of the lifestyle -- are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they've got to find and kill the Antichrist (which is a shame, as he's a really nice kid). There's just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him. . . . </p>
First published in 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind's final judgment is back -- and just in time -- in a new hardcover edition (which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort) that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things. </p>
作者简介
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Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe.
Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a...
Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe.
Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. In 1987, he turned to writing full time.
There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.
A non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006).
In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. Terry published Snuff in October 2011.
Regarded as one of the most significant contemporary English-language satirists, Pratchett has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to literature” in 1998, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Warwick in 1999, the University of Portsmouth in 2001, the University of Bath in 2003, the University of Bristol in 2004, Buckinghamshire New University in 2008, the University of Dublin in 2008, Bradford University in 2009, the University of Winchester in 2009, and The Open University in 2013 for his contribution to Public Service.
In Dec. of 2007, Pratchett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. On 18 Feb, 2009, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
He was awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2010.
Sir Terry Pratchett passed away on 12th March 2015.
About Neil Gaiman
I make things up and write them down. Which takes us from comics (like SANDMAN) to novels (like ANANSI BOYS and AMERICAN GODS) to short stories (some are collected in SMOKE AND MIRRORS) and to occasionally movies (like Dave McKean's MIRRORMASK or the NEVERWHERE TV series, or my own short film A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON).
In my spare time I read and sleep and eat and try to keep the blog at www.neilgaiman.com more or less up to date.
Some parts of the story were extremely enjoyable. There were, however, simply too many other things in it that I couldn't care less about. I see certain readers have commented on Gaiman's written port...Some parts of the story were extremely enjoyable. There were, however, simply too many other things in it that I couldn't care less about. I see certain readers have commented on Gaiman's written portions being too dark to their liking. I, on the other hand, found Pratchett's overly lighthearted nuances mildly irritating.(展开)
One of the nice things about Time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century, the most bloody boring hundred years on God's.
2019-10-08 21:39
One of the nice things about Time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century, the most bloody boring hundred years on God's.
哈哈,有趣 “There were people who called themselves Satanists who made Crowley squirm. It wasn't just the things they did, it was the way they blamed it all on Hell. 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 a fully-functioning human brain could conceive, then shout "The Devil Made Me ...
2019-09-24 15:32
哈哈,有趣
“There were people who called themselves Satanists who made Crowley squirm. It wasn't just the things they did, it was the way they blamed it all on Hell. 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 a 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 that the Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn't have to. That was what some humans found hard to understand. Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.”
"I'd just like to say," he said, "if we don't get out of this, that . . . I'll have known, deep down inside,that there was a spark of goodness in you." "That's right," said Crowley bitterly. "Make my day." Aziraphale held out his hand. "Nice knowing you," he said. Crowley took it. "Here's to the next time," he said. "And . . . Aziraphale?" "Yes." "Just remember I'll have known that, deep down i...
2017-07-02 13:50
"I'd just like to say," he said, "if we don't get out of this, that . . . I'll have known, deep down inside,that there was a spark of goodness in you."
"That's right," said Crowley bitterly. "Make my day."
Aziraphale held out his hand.
"Nice knowing you," he said.
Crowley took it.
"Here's to the next time," he said. "And . . . Aziraphale?"
"Yes."
"Just remember I'll have known that, deep down inside, you were just enough of a bastard to beworth liking."
One of his aides took the calculation further and was able to announce triumphantly that the Earth were created on Sunday the 21st of October, 4004 BC, at exactly 9.00 a.m., because God likes to get work done early in the morning while he wa feeling fresh The utilisation of 'triumphantly' and 'incorrect' which is mentioned later in the passage ironically reflects the mysteriousness of God. The ...
2012-06-05 15:16
One of his aides took the calculation further and was able to announce triumphantly that the Earth were created on Sunday the 21st of October, 4004 BC, at exactly 9.00 a.m., because God likes to get work done early in the morning while he wa feeling fresh引自 Part 1 Chapter 1
The utilisation of 'triumphantly' and 'incorrect' which is mentioned later in the passage ironically reflects the mysteriousness of God.
The whole business with the fossilized finosaur skeleton was a joke the paleotologists haven't seen yet引自 Part 1 Chapter 1
Just because it's a mild night doesn't mean that dark forces aren't abroad. They are abroad all the time. They're everywhere Two of them lurked in the ruined graveyard. Two shadowy figures, one hunched and squat, the other lean and menacing, both of them Olympic-grade lurkers. If Bruce Springsteen had ever recorded 'Born to Lurk', these two would have been on the album cover. ↑这个梗。。。救命...
2012-06-05 17:00
Just because it's a mild night doesn't mean that dark forces aren't abroad. They are abroad all the time. They're everywhere
Two of them lurked in the ruined graveyard. Two shadowy figures, one hunched and squat, the other lean and menacing, both of them Olympic-grade lurkers. If Bruce Springsteen had ever recorded 'Born to Lurk', these two would have been on the album cover.引自 Part 1 Chapter 1
“Ho, so you’ve rumbled my hat trick,” he chuckled. The children stared at him impassively. “You’re rubbish,” said Warlock. “I wanted cartoons anyway.” “He’s right, you know,” agreed a small girl with a ponytail. “You are rubbish. And probably a faggot.” Aziraphale stared desperately at Crowley. As far as he was concerned young Warlock was obviously infernally tainted, and the soone...
2014-07-06 10:53
“Ho, so you’ve rumbled my hat trick,” he chuckled. The children stared at him impassively.
“You’re rubbish,” said Warlock. “I wanted cartoons anyway.”
“He’s right, you know,” agreed a small girl with a ponytail. “You are rubbish. And probably a faggot.”
Aziraphale stared desperately at Crowley. As far as he was concerned young Warlock was obviously infernally tainted, and the sooner the Black Dog turned up and they could get away from this place, the better.引自第85页
"I'd just like to say," he said, "if we don't get out of this, that . . . I'll have known, deep down inside,that there was a spark of goodness in you." "That's right," said Crowley bitterly. "Make my day." Aziraphale held out his hand. "Nice knowing you," he said. Crowley took it. "Here's to the next time," he said. "And . . . Aziraphale?" "Yes." "Just remember I'll have known that, deep down i...
2017-07-02 13:50
"I'd just like to say," he said, "if we don't get out of this, that . . . I'll have known, deep down inside,that there was a spark of goodness in you."
"That's right," said Crowley bitterly. "Make my day."
Aziraphale held out his hand.
"Nice knowing you," he said.
Crowley took it.
"Here's to the next time," he said. "And . . . Aziraphale?"
"Yes."
"Just remember I'll have known that, deep down inside, you were just enough of a bastard to beworth liking."
One of the nice things about Time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century, the most bloody boring hundred years on God's.
2019-10-08 21:39
One of the nice things about Time, Crowley always said, was that it was steadily taking him further away from the fourteenth century, the most bloody boring hundred years on God's.
哈哈,有趣 “There were people who called themselves Satanists who made Crowley squirm. It wasn't just the things they did, it was the way they blamed it all on Hell. 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 a fully-functioning human brain could conceive, then shout "The Devil Made Me ...
2019-09-24 15:32
哈哈,有趣
“There were people who called themselves Satanists who made Crowley squirm. It wasn't just the things they did, it was the way they blamed it all on Hell. 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 a 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 that the Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn't have to. That was what some humans found hard to understand. Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.”
"I'd just like to say," he said, "if we don't get out of this, that . . . I'll have known, deep down inside,that there was a spark of goodness in you." "That's right," said Crowley bitterly. "Make my day." Aziraphale held out his hand. "Nice knowing you," he said. Crowley took it. "Here's to the next time," he said. "And . . . Aziraphale?" "Yes." "Just remember I'll have known that, deep down i...
2017-07-02 13:50
"I'd just like to say," he said, "if we don't get out of this, that . . . I'll have known, deep down inside,that there was a spark of goodness in you."
"That's right," said Crowley bitterly. "Make my day."
Aziraphale held out his hand.
"Nice knowing you," he said.
Crowley took it.
"Here's to the next time," he said. "And . . . Aziraphale?"
"Yes."
"Just remember I'll have known that, deep down inside, you were just enough of a bastard to beworth liking."
2 有用 Dr.WizardLuna 2015-03-13
BBC广播剧,超赞。
5 有用 U京 2014-04-09
Some parts of the story were extremely enjoyable. There were, however, simply too many other things in it that I couldn't care less about. I see certain readers have commented on Gaiman's written port... Some parts of the story were extremely enjoyable. There were, however, simply too many other things in it that I couldn't care less about. I see certain readers have commented on Gaiman's written portions being too dark to their liking. I, on the other hand, found Pratchett's overly lighthearted nuances mildly irritating. (展开)
0 有用 黑五 2007-06-01
超超超超超棒
0 有用 乙酰水杨酸钠 2008-06-16
超赞!!!!!!!!!!!
1 有用 gseed12 2012-08-27
有的冷笑话果然只能在原版里发觉(翻译大大乃好猛啊
0 有用 硫随 2021-03-01
While one has a flair for ostentation,the other has a glib tongue.
0 有用 Fakeolive 2021-02-28
我水平不行 一大堆宗教术语看不懂 然后情节有点散跳来跳去的 但是还是能get到一些笑点的 嗯 过一段时间再翻一翻
0 有用 冲就完事了 2021-02-07
书比剧看着带感,每次看到结尾那里Crowley坐在着火的车里问路那段都要笑飞
1 有用 浮世清歌 2020-12-23
终于终于看完了,以为能像以前看别的英文小说那么快还真是高估了自己。虽然改编剧已经至少二刷,故事是怎么样发展的一清二楚,但因为作者那些弯弯绕的小小幽默,真是读得又吃力又不忍捧腹。还是很喜欢的,以后应该还会再翻翻。(◕ˇ~ˇ◕)
0 有用 珈琲貓少女 2020-12-01
好兆頭…📍12/1/20