What passage(s) do you particularly like in the book? (Copy parts of them in your journal and then write your answer to these questions) Why?

When Crowley thought that Adam was the Antichrist, he sent him a satanical hellhound suitable for 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." However, Adam wasn't nearly as evil as Crowley and the rest of the underworld had hoped, and while Adam was supposed to name his pet something ominous like Killer, he instead named him Dog, a name suitable for a dog. And instead of being huge, black, and bloodthirsty, Dog was small, scruffy, and had one crooked ear, as Adam wished. The following passage is about Dog's slide from satanical hellhound to beloved family pet.

"Dog slouched along dutifully behind his Master. This wasn't, insofar as the hell-hound had any expectations, what he had imagined life would be like in the last days before Armageddon, but despite himself he was beginning to enjoy it....

Form shapes nature. There are certain ways of behavior appropriate to small scruffy dogs which are in fact welded into the genes. You can't just become small-dog-shaped and hope to stay the same person; a certain intrinsic small-dogness begins to permeate your very Being.

He'd already chased a rat. It had been the most enjoyable experience of his life....

And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, which had always worked on the damned in the past This time they earned him a whack on the nose that had made his eyes water. Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls, He was looking forward to a further cat experiment, which he'd planned would consist of jumping around and yapping excitedly at it. It was a long shot, but it might just work."

The last sentence of this passage caught me slightly off guard, then I bursted out laughing. I think it was the randomness yet predictability of it that I enjoyed so much. I wasn't expecting it, and yet everyone knows that that is what small dogs do around cats. It's just so simple.