American Gods

I picked up this book after eying it twice. It was a large book so it was prefect for work( btw i sit at work for 11 hours straight, so i read....alot)

I am so glad I picked up this book. It's not the style of books I normal go for, but i couldn't put this book down. This is a great book, I think everyone should read this!

This book/author is amazing!! He weaves an intricate, spooky, thought provoking page-turner unlike anyone else I've ever read. I'm hooked. I'm now reading "Fragile Things".

Neil Gaiman, definetly this is by far his best work. I first read Anansi Boys, later I discovered that AB was a sequel to American Gods. No worries, the one who said that didn't read the books at all. Yes, both books share one particular character, but that's it. American Gods is original and dark. Gods of the new hunting and killing the old and long forgotten gods of the earth. Shadow, freshly out of jail, returns home to find out that his beloved wife died in a car crash (and what a crash it was) - of course, now she is a walking/talking corpse that re-appears to help our friend Shadow during his "quest?".

Somewhere down the road, specifically in a bar, Shadowis hired by an unusual man....for an unusual tasks, as a bodyguard of some sort. From there everything changes in this repented man. A true rollercoaster of dark humor, odd situations and some thrilling moments.

American Gods it's a well crafted novel. Hope Gaiman keeps on writting more dark humour + fantasy with some horror to it.

This one is a keeper.

Gaiman is a good, original writer, but this novel was a huge let down. Meandering,slow and fairly pointless as far as I'm concerned, with odd interludes that add nothing to the story. I suppose they are intended to add some kind of epic scope, but the main character is so frustratingly passive throughout that I had to really push myself to finish it, and then was sorry I'd wasted the effort.

I initially went to Barnes and Noble to pick up Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" after reading many positive reviews on Amazon. It was not in stock, but the sales clerk, who claimed to be a fan of Gaiman, said that "American Gods" was her favorite book of his.

This was the first novel of Gaiman's I have read and was very let down. At points it would peak my interest, but these were few and far between (and mostly occurred at the end).

I also believe there must have been at least 200 pages that could have been removed with no detrimental effect to the story being told. Lots of frivolous, too-much-information going on here. The book never felt cohesive to me, like the author never found proper direction in it and instead just zig-zagged through the whole story.

I have been on a hot streak of good books lately. For well over the past 6 months I have managed to find books that I found amazing and absorbing. That streak ended with "American Gods". .

Solid/interesting premise, poor execution, hard to relate to characters (even those who are not gods), and some down right annoying characters and dialog choices. I'm doubting whether or not to give any of his other books a try after this.