American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition

from justabookreader

Shadow is doing his time in prison but the end is in sight. A few days before his release, he finds out his wife has died in a car accident, and due to her death, he's being released early. In shock, he heads home to the funeral only to find out his wife died in a precarious situation involving a...

from ElectricRay

The premise is brilliant: America, the immigrant nation, where old Gods had to be imported by the poor huddled masses because there were none already here, finds it has grown new Gods after all - styled after the new Americans' "worship" of their gadgets, media and consumerist lifestyle. The peop...

from Dorritt

It's possible that I embarked upon this novel with some prejudice aforethought. It's just that recently Neil Gaiman's been all over the place - book lists, book groups, even an episode of The Simpsons - and hipster celebrities always make me a little suspicious. By the end of American Gods, howev...

from spounds

It took me nearly 2 months to make my way through this book and I'm still trying to decide if it was worth the effort. In the Introduction of the book, Gaiman says that he wanted it to be "big and odd and meandering." It certainly is that. I did find the premise of the book to be original. When p...

from klarusu

This was a slow-burner of a book for me. Neil Gaiman has been on my 'must read' list for quite a while. From what I'd heard, I guessed I was going to love his work so it was one of those treats you save for later. I was initially disappointed - OK, but not a revelation. Then, about 100 pages in I...