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[morwen]

Just finished reading American Gods. Very good book, though I wish now I had more background in the area.


I like the way that Shadow apparently never figures out who he is.

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[reddragdiva]

You don't need that much background because *pssssst* Gaiman just made a lot of it up from known fragments.

[drjane.livejournal.com]

freaky - i just finished it a couple of weeks ago too.

I was wondering if he'd made a bunch up cos i read it with a copy of the huge tome "dictionary of phrase and fable" "starlore handbook" "world mythology" and a bunch of other books of tims by my side. it was pretty cool to be able to read up on some of the gods, but like, bilquis was never in there. maybe traditionally she goes under a different name. even with all those books there you didn't get much info cos history of world faith and all that must be a massive topic, like, was more than a degree's worth - so even the biggest of the books had little more than a paragraph on each character.

[cwgerard.livejournal.com]

Terrifyingly, I finished it on the 2nd of July too. It's pretty awesome, but some of the American turns of phrase pissed me off, mostly because I'm a linguistic bigot.

Also, it was pretty fun trying to guess the gods before you were told their real names.

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

Wow, I never realised who Shadow was either. I thought he was just a person. I really have to re-read it - I'm waiting for a friend to finish.

Odin/Wednesday made it very easy for me to recognise Odin in another book (well, series) - Stephen Donaldson's Gap Series. I couldn't be sure of anyone else in it though.