swestrup | American Gods.

I finished reading "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman yesterday. It was a very good book, much better than I expected, as I had been somewhat dissappointed by Neverwhere and (as Gaiman readily admits) the whole 'modern life of the gods' has been done before, a lot. Still, Gaiman brought many new ideas into the mix and its quite clear that he's put much research and much imagination into his gods, both the traditional and the modern ones. I also enjoyed guessing who some of the gods were, who were only described in passing. Some I figured out correctly, some I just had to shrug about. I also enjoyed the fact that I didn't manage to figure out what was going on any faster than the hero, despite the clues being well-presented. I thought at first that wouldn't be the case because I figured out who the Hero's boss was the moment he was introduced, while it took the hero another chapter or two to work it out.

The only disconcerting element was that some sections in the middle were so reminiscent of