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American Gods

American GodsAuthor: Neil Gaiman
Creator: Guidall George
Publisher: HarperAudio
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 807 reviews
Sales Rank: 171267

Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: MP3 CD
Edition: MP3 Una
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6

ISBN: 0060836253
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060836252
ASIN: 0060836253

Publication Date: September 1, 2005
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Amazon.com Review
American 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. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.

Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.

Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.

More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton

Product Description

Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America ... and they are in its direct path.

One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.

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1 out of 5 stars For modern fantasy readers only   September 4, 2010
Shivani
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I loved Good Omens. I think Neil Gaiman is also pretty cool. But I don't like his books including American Gods and Anansi Boys. American Gods, is a modern fantasy novel. It's gritty. If you like modern fantasy, you may like this book.

Admittedly, I do like the Percy Jackson series which is modern, kids fantasy. But it has a very strong theme of heroism. Of saving the day. Which is what I really like about fantasy.

Good fantasy is about the world crashing around, and then someone finding their own special way to save it. Of course the world must contain elements of, and generally the saving must be done in a way, that we can't explain using science through magic or some other medium. Fantasy should be immersive. Some philosophy, maybe even something dark or dichotomocially brilliant comedy, and immersive character transformation is what separates great fantasy, from good fantasy.

This isn't good fantasy.



1 out of 5 stars One star to many   August 27, 2010
D. Firtzgerald
This book had an interesting premise, that never got off the ground. You never even learn the main characters name. He spends the first 3/4 of the book blundering along aimlessly following a guy named `Wednesday' he spends the last 1/4 of the book in what seems to me a justifiable goal of just getting the thing to end.

I found it utterly boring and as compelling as toast. I finished it just on the hopes that some characters I didn't like would die.



4 out of 5 stars entertaining   August 25, 2010
Heywould (virginia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

a wonderful exploration of the back road travels across america while traveling with 10000 yr old Gods.


4 out of 5 stars Wonderful   August 19, 2010
motherconfessor
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I was reluctant to read this book at first, due to the lack of much of a description on the back. I usually like to know the general plot before I dive into a book. Nonetheless, I read it and thought it was quite good. If you like modern fantasy novels, you'll enjoy this book.

Quick description (possible spoiler alert): After being released from jail, Shadow meets a man named Mr. Wednesday. Mr. Wednesday contracts Shadow as his assistant and shadow comes to find out that Mr. Wednesday is a god. Mr. Wednesday is leading all the other old gods in America (gods that were brought from other nations when the immigrants came over) in a struggle against the new gods (technology, media, etc.).



5 out of 5 stars If Joseph Campbell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Jack Kerouac went on a road trip   August 18, 2010
Kelsey May Dangelo (Vermont)
Shadow is released from prison days early to attend the funeral of his wife. On the way, he is hired to work for Wednesday, a mysterious stranger that wants Shadow to help him recruit the old gods in a war against America's new gods. On a road trip through America and Americana, through cheesy tourist stops and cultural settings, Shadow must deal with his undead wife and the cast of gods, goddesses, and heroes that have immigrated to America in the souls of its people. Gaiman's mythological tale is one part American road trip, one part Joseph Campbell, one part Beatnik poetry, a fascinating and clever blending of the physical, psychological, sociological, cultural, metaphysical, and theological in the American identity. Gaiman's portrait of mythology in a very non-mythological setting perfectly blends the American psychology and the American reality into a brilliant, refreshing and new American Romance novel in the vein of Hawthorne or Melville. The idea that this country of immigrants became a country of immigrating gods and cultural heroes is not only absorbing and original, but beautifully and richly realized. Though not my favorite of Gaiman's novels (it does meander and can be slow at many points), American Gods cements him as one of my most beloved authors. Grade: A-

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