My parents gave me this book for my birthday. I think they bought it because it has gotten very good reviews, which cover the front and back cover. It is about the Armaggedon, and Good and Evil's struggle to make sure that everything goes according to Divine Plan, which was accurately prophesied by Agnes Nutter in 1655. This book is hilarious. Aziraphale, a book-collecting angel, and Crowley, a demon who "did not so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards", while being on opposite sides of the eternal struggle between Good and Evil, admit that fighting with each other for over 10,000 years has brought them to be reluctant friends. Pratchett and Gaiman have written very believable characters and the interplay between them is a lot of fun to read. Currently, they have just realized that a plan they carried out from opposite sides eleven years ago went dreadfully wrong. "Someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist" says the back of the book. There was a mix up at the hospital run by Satanic nuns and the "Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness" was accidently adopted, while a harmless boy was raised by an American family while Crowley and Aziraphale sent in their Satanic tutors and holy gardeners, respectively, to raise the boy right.
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