How did I miss making American Gods Book of the Week? It’s a great book! Any week! Maybe I just assumed that you all read it already? Anyway, if you haven’t read it it’s a book that assumes that all gods are real if you believe in them, and stay real even after you stop believing in them. …It’s an excellent example of a Neil Gaiman novel, in other words. You know how those go.
And so, adieu to The Last Centurion.
Hey Moe, did you get my email I sent you?
…It does not look like I did, no.
Okay, I will resend it then!
Great premise, skillful writing, well-executed. It’s Neil Gaiman, what did we expect?
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My grief with it is pretty much the same one I have with everything from the Dark Age of antiheroes. I neither empathized with or sympathized for any of the characters in the book. Why should I care about Wednesday when he’s a cosmic con man just because the modern deities rising against him might be…what, troublesome? More shallow? Depth is nice, but if you’re a deep jackwagon, that’s a lot of annoying. I should know. 😛
I never liked this book. Its full of neat ideas, but it never clicked with me. However, I loved the sequel “Anansi’s boys”.
Heh, I’m exactly the opposite. I liked American Gods quite a bit, but couldn’t manage to finish Anansi Boys. I disliked every character in AB.
I had to force myself to finish American Gods but I’ve read AB several times, and the audio book read by Lenny Henry really brings it alive.