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Title:
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American Gods
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Author:
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Neil Gaiman
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Genre:
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Fantasy/Mythology
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Synopsis:
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Released from jail after his wife's death, Shadow finds
himself cast adrift. When he is offered a job by the mysterious Wednesday, a
job that leads him into the path of strange and dangerous new people, he
doesn't realise the magnitude of events that will follow or the part he
himself will have to play in them as opposing forces face off for the very
soul of America.
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Verdict:
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I love this book. Absolutely love it. The rich depiction
of the various pantheons and their modern incarnations, the cutting between
the stories of arrival and the modern encounters, the hints, the revelations,
Shadow! Neil Gaiman is a master story teller and if I had to choose one book
to have when I was stranded on a deserted island, it would be this one.
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Pages:
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635
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Read:
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March 2012
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Disclaimer: Technically this isn't the first thing I've re-read since starting this Reading Journal but it's the first thing I've decided to record as such.
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