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Ep 155 - Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

There are the four horsemen of the apocalypse who are actually personified or at least three of them are personified in this book. War is a war correspondent who like wherever she goes war follows within days. Famine is a dietitian who encourages people to eat a ton of super empty calories and encourage people to diet themselves to death. Pestilence took over for pestilence when we invented penicillin. And then there's death who's just a big scary figure who talks in all caps and is not explicitly personified.

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