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Fran
Jul 11, 2012 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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Barbara Harris Marshall
Nov 11, 2014 rated it really liked it
First - this cover is not the cover I read from. Mine is faded red with a big and proportionately perfect tree on it. Gotta admit, it took a long time until I found out why it was cover material. Also, mine was printed in the UK in 2005. Not until 2011 was it reprinted in the US as the 10th anniversary. That is to say, the edition I read was released here several years before and had his "preferred text" in it.

Gaiman writes literature that is prosaic, fantastical and a little smidge of science f ...more
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Bre
Dec 05, 2010 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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Lisa
Jul 21, 2010 rated it it was amazing
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Superduperawesome.
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Stacie
Feb 26, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Michael
Mar 19, 2010 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Apr 24, 2010 marked it as to-read
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Feb 14, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Chris Perry
Feb 14, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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Alice Oglesby
Feb 25, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Angya
Jun 01, 2012 rated it it was ok
Fran
Jun 01, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Nov 25, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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