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Summary: Amazing
Review: This Gaiman guy knows how to tell a story. Don't hesitate to pick this one up. This book expertly combines world mythology, mystery, humor and adventure. This one will stay with you.
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Summary: pretty fun and lasting entertainment
Review: a highly amusing and insightful look inside mystical America.Written in a language that is engaging, thoughtful, and balanced, you are pulled into an interweaving story laced with unforeseen roadtricks and loops that tapdance on your neurons and make you awake to the magic of modern life. Unlike many of you, I am not a Gaiman enthusiast, but after the dramatic effects of this book, I think I'll do something about that. Fun and enjoyable reading!
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Summary: A wonderfully woven web of complex aligorical storytelling
Review: This is a story about a man searching for answers and peace after a few rocky years and numerous horrendous situations. He finds mythology and intreage in his journey around America and is changed forever. It is a wonderfully developed metaphore on life and belief, as the author drives you down many roads at the same time yet ending up at a decisive destination. At times reading like poetry, the writing is descriptive and beatiful, and at times descriptive and disturbing. A brilliantly moving story that left me bitter when I had finnished it-I wanted to read more. Very entertaining and edifying.
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Summary: Almost
Review: I have to say first, that I admire Gaiman as a writer. Second, I have to say that this novel was decent, I really loved the short stories every so often in the book, they were so involving that I became annoyed when the "main" story continued. I do agree with other reviewers when they said that the characters had no depth - this is true. Shadow was like an empty shell, nothing inside. There were moments during the story that I became enraged because none of the characters offered any explanations to him - they would drag him someplace and he would ask, "Where are we going? why are we going there?" and he would get these vague answers, and what's worse is that, he didn't care! Shadow, the character didn't care, and this, as a reader, made me feel cheated of a REAL character. The entire book felt like a huge tease! Everything was so vague, and I feel like Gaiman purposely made everything vague to try and push a mystery, but all I got was a vision of Gaiman sitting at his desk repeating to himself, "I need 100 more pages to fill this book before the end...hmmmm..I know! I'll just write a bunch of meaningless conversations, that will fool the readers into to believing something is happening, yeah!" oh well..maybe I'm being to hard on the guy, or maybe Gaiman is not for me. I also read Stardust, which was very good, but also didn't convince me with character building - there was nothing - no feeling - ...
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Summary: Wow...
Review: I've only read one other book by Neil Gaiman, and I didn't really like it. However, I'm glad I decided to give him another chance, because this book was great! Granted, it's probably more enjoyable to read if you know a little about "the old gods" ahead of time, but I thought the whole idea for the book was both clever and fascinating. The idea that technological gadgets are North America's new "gods" isn't necessarily original, but this is the first time I've seen them represented as physical characters in a novel. If you're weird like me and have wondered what Odin would be like if you met him in the street, this book is for you.
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Summary: Not a memorable read
Review: The book starts out with the anticipation that this will be an entertaining read but after the first five pages, it falls apart and doesn't capture the reader again until the last four pages. Everything else between the beginning and end are just words to take up space and add thickness between the covers. Character development is practically non-existent and most of the characters are really just a profusion of names that only make the theme of the book distracting and chaotic. It is not clearly and understandably recognized that the name of the character Wednesday derived itself from the Norse word 'Wodinstag' which was the day honoring the Norse god Wodin (or Odin). The book rambles from page to page without any continuity of meaning about the idea of what the author is presenting and each page becomes a struggle to finish.
In summary, the author was certainly not thinking of what the reader would like to enjoy.
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Summary: something for everyone
Review: Gaiman really did his homework when researching religions. I was really impressed with the way the story unfolded.
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Summary: Go to the library for it.
Review: I wanted to give this 5 stars and say that it was fantastic but the truth of the matter is that Gaiman took a geat idea and didn't do much with it. I was waiting for it to pick up and it never did. Some of the character were interesting but he could have done so much more with it (almost anything could have been done with these characters)....I don't know , I am confused by what he wanted to say. I have read tons of fantasy and sci-fi but this is better taken out of the library than bought. Many people gave it 5 stars but it truly is not a 5 star book. Neverwhere was much better.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This was my first Gaiman novel and my favorite to this point. More in depth then Neverwhere, American Gods is another excellent journey, this time through America. I read mostly sci-fi but Gaiman is an all around well crafted author who bridges a gap between many genres. Many Many more great works to come from this amazing storyteller.
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Summary: An amazing read!
Review: "American Gods" is one of the most intriguing fantasy novels I've read in years. Its the story of a man named Shadow who is released from prison only to find his wife and best friend had been killed and a strange man offering him a job. From this point, the book takes the path of a fantasy and horror novel introducing you to a wide variety of gods, old and new. This is just the beginning and for such a large book, it never bores. This book takes you through idyllic small towns, interesting characters, a walking dead woman, little out of the way tourist traps which are made very interesting through Gaiman's wonderful writing and a world in which nothing is as it seems. I won't give away too much of the plot, but I will say that the gods were presented in very interesting, sinister and humorous ways. After reading this, I found myself looking around at the people wishing there were gods around me. All in all, this book is a magical journey into a strange and perilous world. It took me three days to read it and it left me thinking about it long after I finished. Its funny, its frightening, sad and phenomenal. A great read.
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