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his was my first Neil Gaiman book. He’s not highly recommended for nothing. What an amazing writer. What a way with words, and what a haunting writing voice. Gaiman weaves his great sense of myth and fairy tale, almost subconsciously, through his story. American Gods is about an ex-con, Shadow, who encounters gods brought by immigrants to America. The gods are going to war against the newer gods of technology. Caught up in the skirmishes of the war, Shadow finds out he’s more deeply tied to the
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Wow. Just wow. I read somewhere that Neil Gaiman felt he didn't quite execute to his satisfaction what he had in mind for this story...but my mind was blown by the sprawling and powerful story that he did write! He truly created an American mythological pantheon: a wild melting pot of gods and goddesses and creatures from all around the world, transformed by the minds of the settlers and immigrants. And interwoven with this mythology is the story of Shadow and his own unique hero journey. Just W
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