I seem to have misplaced it :/ or perhaps the gods have deemed I should not read it..or the monster under my bed ate it.

This book was okay. I liked the clever premise, and the idea of what a god really is, but I found it hard to really stay sucked into the plot. This is contrary to most people, I think, since people generally seem to like this book. One think I did like was one character saying that a town isn’t a real town unless it has a library. Or was it bookstore? Either way, that was a good line.

This is a compelling tale of what happens to the gods when they’re no longer loved and honoured.

In Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, Shadow, gets out of prison the day he finds out his wife died in a mysterious car crash.

In short order, as an ex-con with few options, he finds himself getting entangled with incarnations of all manner of god, goddess and magical creature. And boy do they take the piss out of him.

The story, while it doesn’t lead to a whole lot of gasping when the story twists and turns, instead creates a compelling and believeable picture of the reality of ancient gods living among the living, and weaves the magical, profane, sacred and real together in a lovely stew. Gaiman’s storytelling ability is excellent, and the tale bobs and weaves with the best of them, without losing one inch of suspense or for that matter, without suspending belief one iota.

I could not put the book down and found myself reading into the wee hours of the morning, eyes burning me with the boulders in them, determined to continue reading.

Excellent read!

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for some reason i got it in my head that i was going to find this book at the used bookstore. finally, i did. i hope it’s as good as i want it to be!

Highly readable but somehow unsatisfying

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decent enuff fantasier – starts out with the promise of an exam of the battle between spirituality and consumerism in the American psyche, then the ‘con-trick’ plot device takes hold and robs the conclusion of any real impact

:-O

Fabulous.