American Gods
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Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a stranger offers him a job and Shadow, with nothing to lose, accepts. But a storm is coming. Beneath the placid surface of everyday life, a war is being fought – and the prize is the very soul of America.
An inspired combination of mythology, adventure, and illusion, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.
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American Gods is a 4-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by Neil Gaiman and R. Scarlett.
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Overall a good book, very well written. However, not my kind of story. I read it with a science fiction / fantasy mindset, and it has very little of that. The whole gods plot was pretty much a background for the true story of the book.
Basically it's a story about an ex-con walking around the USA. It's more of a travel, sight seeing and ‘small town getting to know', kind of book.
Interesting characters, good dialogs, but lack of a climax and exciting scenes.
One of the best books I have ever read. A gripping story weaving Norse mythology into the American landscape. Wonderful.
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