I saw that Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods (#649) was going to be on Starz, so I decided to finally read something by him. It took me an awfully long time to get through American Gods. I should have known; my husband kept commenting as he read it first, "This is a really odd book."
The premise, according to the Starz trailers, is that the old gods are fading, new gods are rising, and that a war between them is coming. Odin is certainly trying to gin up his troops against the digital and media gods, using his hired lackey, Shadow to drive him around the country and run his errands, telling him that a war, is indeed, on its way. As Shadow learns in the end, not so much. We have all apparently been played by reading this book.
I know that Mr. Gaiman has a legion of avid fans. He has a vivid imagination and a curious bent of mind (where does he come up with some of his ideas?), but I will never be one of them. I regret the time I could have spent reading something else. At least now I know.
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