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American Gods gets off to a slow start. For the first fifty pages or so, I came close to abandoning it because nothing interesting seemed to happen and I was having a hard time getting involved with the characters and their predicaments. I found the Russian Gods particularly dreary and annoying.
But I stuck with it, and I was really glad I did because suddenly, the story comes alive; somewhere about the time Shadow’s dead wife appears, the story suddenly wakes up and everything starts to make sen ...more
But I stuck with it, and I was really glad I did because suddenly, the story comes alive; somewhere about the time Shadow’s dead wife appears, the story suddenly wakes up and everything starts to make sen ...more
Shadow! Dude! You're a demigod! Freakin' DO SOMETHING ALREADY!!
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Gods wage war against one another in a modern world where no one believes they exist. And trapped in the middle of it all is a man named Shadow. This is one of the first "big" novels I ever read and its awesome.
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Dec 13, 2008
Atlas
marked it as to-read
Jul 17, 2009
Shellie (Layers of Thought)
marked it as to-read
