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American Gods - Neil Gaiman

 
Description: ISBN 0755322819 / Author: Neil Gaiman / Genre: Fiction / After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the days, then the ... more
American Gods - Neil Gaiman ... hours, then the hours, then the seconds until his release tick away, he can feel a storm building. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in apparently adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.

Newest Review: ... of their former glory, living in impoverished squalor. Mr Wednesday is one of these Gods (and, if you know your mythology, ... more

 ... you'll know from his name which one) - not as diminished as some, nor as strong as the new "Gods" of America, those of mass media and fast money. He approaches Shadow and offers him employment as his errand-runner; our protagonist's main duty ostensibly being to track down the fallen Gods of America and convince them to join Wednesday's upcoming war on the new Gods. This, though, is only the central thread of a great, sprawling book which takes in a multitude of stories and legends. The narrative often v...more

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Crowned Review American Gods - Neil Gaiman: In the Lap of the Gods (996 words)
by - written on 29/05/09 (Very useful, 87 readings)
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Shadow is having one of those good news/bad news sort of days. He's being released from prison early, which is good. This is, though, only because his wife has just been killed in a car accident, which is bad. Shadow's best friend had offered him a good, steady job for when he got out of prison, which was good. He was also killed in the car crash, which is bad. What's more, the pair were engaged in an act of mutual pleasure at the time, causing the car to veer off the road. Again, quite bad. All in all, then, Shadow emerges from his incarceration a lost, near-broken man, which is perhaps why he accepts the first offer that comes his way without asking too many ...  Read the complete review

RedBen
Crowned Review Scrapheap of the Gods (854 words)
by - written on 22/01/09 (Very useful, 132 readings)
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Written by Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere, Sandman, Stardust) and first published in 2001, American Gods tells the story of Shadow, a quiet, taciturn man who, on his release from prison, finds the world - or at least his perception of it - irrevocably altered. Shadow's stay in prison is shortened by a few days when he learns that his wife has been killed in a car accident, one that has also claimed the life of his best friend. Numbed by the news - throughout the book, no matter what the revelation, Shadow is not a man prone to hysteria - his return flight home is interrupted by the mysterious Mr Wednesday (those with some knowledge of the etymology of our weekdays ...  Read the complete review

KingHerrod
Crowned Review American Gods - Neil Gaiman: What happens when you create a belief in your mind? (1245 words)
by - written on 03/06/02 (Very useful, 536 readings)
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Gods? How are they created? The traditional Church indoctrinated amongst you will tell me, there is one God and he (but it could be she) created everything on this planet. I would reply, well fine, but what about these ancient Greek Gods, or the Egyptian ones, even those of the African tribes, what did they do? You would scratch your head and probably wonder that yourself. Or am I being hard? Neil Gaiman, in his book American Gods has thought about the number of Gods that have been created by societies throughout history and across the globe - then added the twist that pretty much everybody, from anywhere at any time has visited the United States, oh yes we ...  Read the complete review

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Premium Review Old and angry gods (588 words)
by - written on 01/07/02 (Very useful, 940 readings)
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What happens to gods when no one believes in them any more? Do they just go away? Do they take up fortune teling, whoring or whatever was closest to their original calling? How do you know if you meet one? Hold those thoughts. Shadow seems like a fairly ordianry small time crook who has done his time and means to go straight, however, when his wife and best freind die in a car crash days before he was due to come out, he finds himself cast adrift in the world. He's offered work by a mysterious and slightly sinister man called Mr Wednesday and is soon travelling the country on a very peculiar and often life threatening set of jobs. Gaiman is a ...  Read the complete review

Ariel_uk
Premium Review American Gods - Neil Gaiman: A modern classic from a modern master (708 words)
by - written on 04/09/01 (Very useful, 403 readings)
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Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite authors, so when I heard he was about to publish an American noir novel, (one of my favourite genres) I could hardly wait to get my hands on it. Having devoured the 500-page hardback in a single sitting (it was too hot to sleep anyway!) I can report back that he has lost none of his storyteller's mastery. The flawed hero is Shadow, an ex con just released from his prison term. His wife just dead, his beast friend killed with her, exposing their affair, he is cast loose, and enters into the service of a mysterious Mr Wednesday. From there on in the story takes on the multi-layered mythic feel that is Gaiman's ...  Read the complete review

 

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