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A review by zo277
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
3.0
This really should have been three books, or three volumes. The lives of gods currently, the impending war and the Midwestern showdown. Each plot or arc tends to be interrupted by the other arcs and it is really distracting. Everytime I would finally get into a portion of the book it would end for some random parallel part to begin and this was really irritating.
The premise of the book is actually really interesting and I felt like there was so much left on the table with what could have been done in this idea of old vs new gods. What I read here was mid, lackluster, mediocre perhaps (again, could have been remedied in a proportional volume).
There are some odd romance scenes that just seemed unnecessary and really made for a more awkward reading experience, This leads to my last thought.
Lastly, this book is in a style of writing that I really am not a fan of. There would be pages that would ramble on about driving somewhere, but then truly important information would be mentioned in passing. This book should be a TV show on TBS or HBO, for 500+ pages of writing there's really not a great deal of analysis one has to put into understanding the plot. This book is not a grand piece of literature that reveals something about the human condition. This seems like a notch above Dean Koontz but maybe not much better than Stephen King, no offense to either author.
The premise of the book is actually really interesting and I felt like there was so much left on the table with what could have been done in this idea of old vs new gods. What I read here was mid, lackluster, mediocre perhaps (again, could have been remedied in a proportional volume).
There are some odd romance scenes that just seemed unnecessary and really made for a more awkward reading experience, This leads to my last thought.
Lastly, this book is in a style of writing that I really am not a fan of. There would be pages that would ramble on about driving somewhere, but then truly important information would be mentioned in passing. This book should be a TV show on TBS or HBO, for 500+ pages of writing there's really not a great deal of analysis one has to put into understanding the plot. This book is not a grand piece of literature that reveals something about the human condition. This seems like a notch above Dean Koontz but maybe not much better than Stephen King, no offense to either author.