Good omens

This novel can be described as The Apocalypse as a complicated farce. The anti-Chist isn't quite who anybody thinks he is since he's not being raised by the parents chosen for him. War is getting along as a war correspondent who can cause bar fights with the blink of her eyelashes, and Famine's been busy making a line of diet meals for that waif-thin at-death's-door look models so adore. Meanwhile, the descendant of a witch finds out more about what those prophecies handed down to her actually might mean, and and angel and a devil plot to try to keep existence on earth going a little longer than originally planned. Wickedly funny, sometimes touching, all excellent. This is one of my all time favorite books ever, that I recommend to anyone I think might be remotely interested.