https://blog.georgefabish.com/tags/american_gods/ Recent content in American_gods on George's Blog Hugo en-US Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/american-gods/ Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:21 -0500 https://blog.georgefabish.com/reviews/american-gods/ <p>Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.</p> <p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>A recently released prisoner named Shadow is on a return flight home when there is a mix up and his seat gets upgraded to first class. Waiting for him is a mysterious stranger with a job offer.</p> <p><strong>Thoughts</strong></p> <p>Unsurprisingly, I really enjoyed this book. A book that almost lives up to the hype, but would have been slightly better to have stumbled on without knowing anything about it. Neil Gaiman draws out scenes and situations so vividly that they became almost scars in my memory. In the age of pictures, it is difficult to make people see with just words. That is not a problem in this book, you will see what is happening, even if sometimes you didn&rsquo;t want to.</p>