American Gods (American Gods, #1) in Ask Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman

Jun 17, 2011 🥀 Rose 🥀 rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy

Having just come off listening to the brilliant Neverwhere, I was super aware of how much American Gods was not on the same level as far as story goes. I felt there was something missing in this that I can't really put my finger on.. I never became attached to my characters, the digressing into all these side stories was terribly distracting and quite frankly bored me. Writing was great, but overall completely average.
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Jul 11, 2012 Fran rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I found the dates of when I first read American Gods, so I've added the book here along with selected snippets of my diary entries from the time that I read it. It's interesting that it was exactly 10 years ago that I read it (25th June-3rd July 2002/27th June-10th July 2012).

Only selecting a few short snippets for here, as I was v. young, wrote poorly, and clearly didn't understand parts of the book when I first read it!

Tue 25th June
I started reading American Gods, which I got from the lib. It' ...more

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Jul 04, 2013 Rebecca Eve rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013, books-i-own

This was an epic and fascinating tale. I feel like I needed an annotated version because there is just so much in here that I'm sure I missed. It was packed with references, myths, lore, history, geography, religion and all kinds of magic. I've been warned that this is a love it or hate it book and I've on the love it side for sure. In fact, I hope there is an annotated version some day (even though this book would have to be enormous) because I'd love to dive even deeper into it.

Fun fact: This ...more

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Jul 14, 2011 Jennifer rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011

10th Anniversary Edition.

Even with the extra 20,000 words, it's still hard to not be reading this book anymore. I want to keep hearing about what Shadow, Sam Black Crow, and the Gods are up to. I also want to take some more road trips.

The audiobook release with this is a very well done full cast recording. ...more

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Dec 05, 2010 Bre rated it really liked it

OK, I will never see a toaster the same thanks to this book. Hair irons, tv's and other appliacnes are now wirey, furious objects that want to be worshipped. Who knew? ...more

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