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

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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Nov 11, 2014 Barbara Harris Marshall 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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Feb 03, 2012 Juan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A wonderful book on gods, legends and folk-heros set in the United States. At times dark other times fantasy, Neil Gaiman's American Gods is just more than just its protagonist Shadow finding himself in middle America, but the clash of the old and new beliefs in America. ...more

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Jul 26, 2012 B-zee rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, zee-s-library, favorites

This is brilliant. It's not just that long-bulky-book with long story, long journey or anything, it's a contain-everything-you-have-to-know masterpiece. Gaiman really worked on it, he put everything, EVERYTHING. That made this book so complicated.
I'll make a proper review soon. ...more

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