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When Shadow is released from prison early due to his wife's death, he just wants to move on with his life. Instead, he is asked by a strange man sitting next to him on the plane to go on a mysterious mission. Soon he is caught up in a conflict between the ancient gods and spirits that followed immigrants to America with the modern gods of technology. Shadow takes a journey across the country to the "sacred" places of American culture such as the House on the Rock in Wisconsin. (I think he should
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Gaiman is a master of in-between places, cultivating uncertainty and the unseen.
I think that having a background in folklore really added to my enjoyment of the book, and that you must be in the right place to find pleasure in the pages. The gods in the novel are ancient ones, doing battle with modern gods (media, computers, etc) and there is much that takes place in a dream time state.
Save this book for when you have time for meandering and you will appreciate it all the more. Think of it as ...more
I think that having a background in folklore really added to my enjoyment of the book, and that you must be in the right place to find pleasure in the pages. The gods in the novel are ancient ones, doing battle with modern gods (media, computers, etc) and there is much that takes place in a dream time state.
Save this book for when you have time for meandering and you will appreciate it all the more. Think of it as ...more
Different, interesting but a little disjointed.
