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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Gaiman has an amazing sense of the surreal and how it relates to the real. A great urban fantasy that can be read as a clash between the old and the new. ( )Left me a little cool. I'm starting to understand the people who say Gaiman can't write.I mean, he can write, and very well indeed. But something... the characters didn't grab me.. something.Characters. Now that I think of it, none of his novels have really had characters, probably not the short stories either. They have a main character, and events happen to him. Interesting events, often, but. I need more relationship.And the book was called American Gods, but it didn't seem very American somehow. Not Un-American, or Anti-American, just sort of beside the point. http://leperdbunny.livejournal.com/28... Title: American Gods Author: Neil Gaiman Genre: Fiction, Fantasy # of pages: 461 Start date: 6/19 End date: 6/27 Borrowed/bought: borrowed My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: B+ Description of the book: Shadow spent three years in prison, and got out early on good behavior. When he gets out he meets a man he comes to know as Wednesday. Wednesday asks Shadow to work for him. Shadow, having lost his wife, has nothing left to lose. Shadow meets many strange people who are wanting him and the seat of America itself. Review: Good book and really interesting concept. Gaiman did a really good job at hinting at something, seemingly innocuous at the time, and then later does a great job revealing the secret. I don't think I was the target audience for this book but I enjoyed it nonetheless. The romantic in me would have liked to see Shadow with Sam at the end or somehow bring back his dead wife and be with her. I've just started reading this book as I am a big Neil Gaiman fan. I've been very pleased to find a character from another Gaiman book I've read and thoroughly enjoyed, Anansi Boys has appeared in this book. Well at first you wonder, this is fantasy? Yet it was still interesting, I like the subtle mix of our world and 'other'. Its been a while since I read it and remember the plot. I do remember that after reading it I was very excited to read more, but I dont remember why. Ill trust my self and say you really should pick it up sometime. 0.072 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0380973650, Hardcover)The storm was coming.... Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his scheduled release, he learns that his wife has been killed in an accident, and his world becomes a colder place. On the plane ride home to the funeral, Shadow meets a grizzled man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A self-styled grifter and rogue, Wednesday offers Shadow a job. And Shadow, a man with nothing to lose, accepts. But working for the enigmatic Wednesday is not without its price, and Shadow soon learns that his role in Wednesday's schemes will be far more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. Entangled in a world of secrets, he embarks on a wild road trip and encounters, among others, the murderous Czernobog, the impish Mr. Nancy, and the beautiful Easter -- all of whom seem to know more about Shadow than he himself does. Shadow will learn that the past does not die, that everyone, including his late wife, had secrets, and that the stakes are higher than anyone could have imagined. All around them a storm of epic proportions threatens to break. Soon Shadow and Wednesday will be swept up into a conflict as old as humanity itself. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being fought -- and the prize is the very soul of America. As unsettling as it is exhilarating, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. Magnificently told, this work of literary magic will haunt the reader far beyond the final page. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:02 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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