Adrian Buck’s Reviews > American Gods > Status Update

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief that makes things happen. - True story

"There are clouds, between us and them," pointed out Isten of the Hungarians. He had a fine black moustache, a large dusty black, and the grin of a man who makes his living selling aluminum sidings and roofs and gutters to senior citizens but who always leaves town the day after... - Apart from the obvious racism, isn't it poorly researched? Isn't Isten another name for Jehovah?

"It's still true. Jesus. His death did in an instant what he'd spent the last few months trying to do." - this novel's blind spot, you can't write a novel about beings that are sustained by our faith in them, a novel that is set in America, without mentioning the number one American God. Europe however...

"The best thing about Robbie was that he was SOMEBODY" - I'm bored with colourless protagonists. Does this mean Gaiman is too?

So, yeah, Jesus does pretty good over here. But I met a guy who said he saw him by the side of the road in Afghanistan and nobody was stopping to give him a ride.

So according to your theory...Walt Disney World would be the holiest place In America.

They say this was built by Frank Lloyd Wright's evil twin...Frank Lloyd Wrong.

This is the only country that worries about what it is.

He sang of the nine days that the all-father hung from the world tree, his side pierced and dripping... Odin/Christ

Tell him we have fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam.