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American Gods
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☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣
Hold my tea while I puke....

Each time I read an NG's novel the 1st time around, it is unexplicably lovely and incredibly insightful and full of lovely passages that I just want to gobble up and can't have enough of.

Whenever I do the 2nd read, his books turn out to be full of ultimate crap: incoherent, nasty to the brim and full of characters that need mushroom-induced piss to drink are seriously fucked up (not in a good way).

And it's giving me a whiplash.

What the crab is going on? Someone switc
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Ian
Jun 07, 2017 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fantasy
I was prompted to read this novel by the recent tv series, and I am glad that I was. A slow read, which I read in two days. A great deal of detail, but none that bores. Depth, and so forth. The story of an ordinary man, who gets mixed with the all too real gods, suffers, but comes out ahead, barely. Or at least he knows who he is. I do recommend.
Kristina Masone
Nov 04, 2022 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: audiobook
3.5/5🌟
Fenley Grant
May 22, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: sci-fi-fantasy
I love everything Neil Gaiman writes, and American Gods is no exception. The interweaving of old gods and new gods is a clever metaphor for the immigrant experience and interesting way to represent what American's pray to. Found the book hard to put down. ...more
Jules
Oct 10, 2016 rated it really liked it
I heard about the television show and I knew I had to read it. so it was on my to read list for awhile. then I finally got the audio book to listen to at work. it was fantastic and I now have a new favorite author
Barbara
Nov 02, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
SSBSMS
Nov 08, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shay Leigh
Jan 15, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Melissa
Feb 12, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Z
Mar 23, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Jodi
May 10, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Jennifer
Apr 25, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Jessie Coad
Jul 04, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Emily B
Nov 25, 2017 marked it as to-read
Kandace
Jun 02, 2018 marked it as 2022-reading-list
Shelves: have
Mike Hitchcock
Sep 18, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Melissa
Feb 18, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Julia
Feb 24, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: on-hold
Sheila
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Maria Itliong
Aug 23, 2020 rated it it was amazing