September 1, 2002
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Good Omens

A famous economist (and a very old friend) recommended Gaiman and Pratchett's Good Omens over coffee at Sharples, where we had coffee together some decades ago.

She was right. It's a hilariously British account of the final days, replete with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, riding down the highway on their Harleys pursued by the real Hell's Angels while the angel Aziraphale enjoys a glass of thin, vinegary Beaujolais that he transforms into a perfectly acceptable (albeit astonished) Bordeaux.