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Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Neil Gaiman

“Reads like the Book of Revelation, rewritten by Monty Python.” — According to

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Behind the Bastards

It was referenced during a discussion on the damaging potential of AI-generated books. The fast-food franchise run by Famine, one of the Four Horsemen, was used as a metaphor for such content's lack of substance.

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If you ever did you ever read Good Omens?

— Episode: Part Two: AI Is Coming for Your Children

Episode: Part Two: AI Is Coming for Your Children

It was referenced during a discussion on the damaging potential of AI-generated books. The fast-food franchise run by Famine, one of the Four Horsemen, was used as a metaphor for such content's lack of substance.

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If you ever did you ever read Good Omens?

Yes.

Yeah. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

One of the it's you know, it's a book. Antichrist is like the hero kind of and there's like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are our characters in it.

And one of them famine is like kind of a little counterintuitively at first. He's like his his big plot. He's like running this some fast food franchise.

That's right. The food has any nutrition in it. Like there's nothing. It's actually you can starve to death eating this food.

Monday Morning Podcast

He mentioned reading it in the past, and that he particularly enjoys Neil Gaiman's writing, and books that have a blend of humor and darkness.

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I've read Good Omens, and I've always dug Neil Gaiman's stuff. It's funny and dark, and I like that.

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 6-22-15

Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 6-22-15

He mentioned reading it in the past, and that he particularly enjoys Neil Gaiman's writing, and books that have a blend of humor and darkness.

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I've read Good Omens, and I've always dug Neil Gaiman's stuff. It's funny and dark, and I like that.

Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 6-22-15

Bill Burr mentioned the book in the context of his experience in Santa Rosa, where he saw the author's name on a building.

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I thought it was the name of the place, some bar or something called 'Good Omens' but then I looked up and it was just a building that Terry Pratchett's name was on it.

Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 6-22-15

Bill Burr mentioned 'Good Omens' as a book to make fun of the idea that he was reading it as a way to excuse himself for crying about a dead phone.

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I wish I could still cry like that the way a baby does just over little things. I think I wouldn't be angry anymore. He says you just get it out of you.

And just see how long I could sustain it. I don't even think I could cry once. You just be like what the fuck are you doing? You know anything and then I would just cry more Like you know a baby does when you yell at it.

I'm reading this new book on crying it out

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