American Gods
Days before his release from prison, Shadow s wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash Numbly, he makes his way back home On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America You ll be surprised by what and who it finds there This is the author s preferred text, never before published in the UK, and is about 12,000 words longer than the previous UK edition. Best Read American Gods By Neil Gaiman For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr In 2003, I walked away from my childhood religion a high control some would say abusive group with a tiny little worldview and a severe superiority complex This was my reality I believed with all my being that the things depicted above were real, and were just over the event horizon Leaving meant losing almost every friend I had ever made since childhood, it created a rift with my still devout family, and quite possibly saved my life Is it any wonder that fiction alternate realities, fa In 2003, I walked away from my childhood religion a high control some would say abusive group with a tiny little worldview and a severe superiority complex This was my reality I believed with all my being that the things depicted above were real, and were just over the event horizon Leaving meant losing almost every friend I had ever made since childhood, it created a rift with my still devout family, and quite possibly saved my life Is it...Anybody who tells you that the book is about old and new gods, or about a man named Shadow, or about coin tricks, or about having one s head smashed in for losing a game of checkers, is selling you a line, because those are just details, not the story itself.Much like any Neil Gaiman story, the devil is in the details, and you just have to resolve yourself to coming along for the ride or you ll miss it It s not one story, or two, it s many, and it s all completeand you have to just re...This is a tough review for me to write I m not exactly sure what it is about this book that I don t like I m not sure there even IS something I don t like Since I don t want to just leave you all with the ever popular I m just not that into it , I will try to explain.This book has all the elements of a book I would enjoy The creepiness factor is up there, the writing is brilliant, the main character is a big lug I couldn t help but love Also, I have always been fascinated by mythology, so This is a tough review for me to write I m not exactly sure what it is about this book that I don t like I m not sure there even IS something I don t like Since I don t want to just leave you all with the ever popular I m just not that into it , I will try to explain.This book has all the elements of a book I would enjoy The creepiness factor is up there, the writing is brilliant, the main character is a big lug I couldn t help but love Also, I have always been fascinated by mythology, so that s a plus.Shadow is our main character and he just got out of jail after doing his time of three years...Whenever we have a cold snap here in Wisconsin, I find myself thinking about one of my favorite pieces of American Gods I remember reading it back in 2002 or so This was back in the day Back when it was a bit of a secret that Gaiman lived in Wisconsin I read the following section of the book nodding to myself, thinking, Yup, that s exactly what it s like Then I had another thought I bet this comes from that really bad cold snap we had here in Wisconsin about six years ago It was prett Whe...Read Gaiman they say I can t believe you ve never read Gaiman You have GOT TO read Gaiman Gaiman is SUCH an important part of popular culture and one of the BEST contemporary writers You HAVE TO READ GAIMAN Well, I ve read Gaiman now.Hi Gaiman Bye Gaiman Let me quoteAmerican Gods is Neil Gaiman s best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit I agree with everything but the beginning a Read Gaiman they say I can t believe you ve never read Gaiman You have GOT TO read Gaiman Gaiman is SUCH an important part of popular culture and one of the BEST contemporary writers You HAVE TO READ GAIMAN Well, I ve read Gaiman now.Hi Gaiman Bye Gaiman Let me quoteAmerican Gods is Neil Gaiman s best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit I agree with ev...I find myself shocked at the awards this book has won and the praise heaped upon it How on Gods Earth could a book about Gods walking on the Earth among mortals be so pedestrian Somehow Gaiman managed to turn a potentially cool premise into something boring For those who love this book and I know it is many please forgive the sarcasm to follow as I blaspheme against the beloved Gaiman But Gods help me, theI read, theI hated American Gods.First off, while the premise sounds inter I find myself shocked at the awards this book has won and the praise heaped upon it How on Gods Earth could a book about Gods walking on the Earth among mortals be so pedestrian Somehow Gaiman managed to turn a potentially cool premise into something boring For those who love this book and I know it is many please forgive the sarcasm to follow as I blaspheme against the beloved Gaiman But Gods help me, theI read, theI hated American Gods.First off, while the premise sounds interesting theI thought about ...In this unique love letter to the United States, Gaiman manages to celebrate its underground spiritual traditions, glory in the magnificence of its landmarks, landscapes, and bizarre tourist traps, and most important both mourn and venerate its pagan often immigrant gods in decline, battered and diminished though they may be by the shallowness and speed of our technological world The gods are indeed the best part of this very good book degenerate and threadbare, yet still gods, capable of In this unique love letter to the United States, Gaiman manages to celebrate its underground spiritual traditions, glory in the magnificence of its landmarks, landscapes, and bizarre tourist traps, and most important both mourn and venerate its pagan often immigrant gods in decline, battered and diminished though they may be by the shallowness and speed of our technological world The gods are indeed the best part of this very good book degenerate an...My first thought on this book This is a 2.5 to 3 star book max for me I am pretty sure this will be my last Neil Gaiman book I have tried two others Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch and The Ocean at the End of the Lane and one of those was okay Omens and one of them I couldn t stand Ocean.I realize that my feelings on Gaiman and his books are contrary to popular opinion, but they are just not my cup of tea They are slow They seem intentionally odd and My first thought on this book This is a 2.5 to 3 star book max for me I am pretty sure this will be my last Neil Gaiman book I have tried two others Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch and The Ocean at the End of ...4.5 starsDo you ever read a book and become completely lost in the words and, ultimately, wonder what is actually happening Well, I do So, I go back and read the bits I may not have picked up or accidently skimmed over This allows me to actually understand the book I tried doing that with this, and I quickly realised that I still had no idea what was going on The plot of this felt completely random, drawn out to the point of ridiculousness and the events, themselves, felt incoherent I have no idea Do you ever read a book and become completely lost in the words and, ultimately, wonder what is actually happening Well, I do So, I go back and read the bits I may not have picked up or accidently skimmed over This allows me to actually understand the book I tried doing that with this, and I quickly realised that I still had no idea what was going on The plot of this felt completely random, drawn out to the point of ridiculousness and the events, themselves, felt incoherent I have no idea why most of the events actually happened in here, and at this point, I can honestly say that just I don t care any Did I miss something The book begins with the protagonist, Shadow, finishing his prison sentence On the day of release his wife is killed in a car accident What...
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- 24 July 2018 Neil Gaiman
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