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pitäisit paljon Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin, niin näet, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. This book is epic, suspenseful, sometimes humorous, and also happens to contain a scene that is quite possibly the most disturbing to attempt to visualize that I have ever read in my life. It also has prose that I want to find a way to crawl inside of, whatever it happens to be describing. A must read for everybody who isn't terminally allergic to the fantastic in their fiction, or possibly overly squeamish. (  ) EstelleChauvelin | Dec 21, 2009 |  Not my genre but wow, am I glad I read this. Amazing plotting and character development. I would have loved to take this apart with someone who has a better grounding in mythology than I do. A possible re-read. ( ) dlgoldie | Dec 21, 2009 | Old gods versus new gods, Shadow, ex-con is go- between. Don't remember plot, even after skimming again. (  ) mikent | Dec 11, 2009 | Gaiman som författare har mycket mer att bevisa än Gaiman Sandman scenartist. Jag håller med röster här som säger att koncept är inte originell. Ändå ger jag hög betyg för American Gods. Först därför att jag gillar stämningen i romanen och hur är den åstadkommen genom lek med ord, mytologi, karaktärer och humör. Jag gillar moderna varianter av Slaviska gudar. Jag gillar också korta referenser till Gaimans figurer från hans berömda Sandman. Gaiman är populär och mycket överskattad författare men den här romanen var glädje och njutning att läsa. (  ) Cvijaxo | Dec 3, 2009 | Gaiman's finest work. If only all fantasy were this smart, subtle, and gripping. Some of the images (Bilquis, Czernobog's hammer-blow, the funeral home) are unforgettable. (  ) schlimmbesserung | Nov 18, 2009 |  ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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The storm was coming....
Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his scheduled release, he learns that his wife has been killed in an accident, and his world becomes a colder place.
On the plane ride home to the funeral, Shadow meets a grizzled man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A self-styled grifter and rogue, Wednesday offers Shadow a job. And Shadow, a man with nothing to lose, accepts.
But working for the enigmatic Wednesday is not without its price, and Shadow soon learns that his role in Wednesday's schemes will be far more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. Entangled in a world of secrets, he embarks on a wild road trip and encounters, among others, the murderous Czernobog, the impish Mr. Nancy, and the beautiful Easter -- all of whom seem to know more about Shadow than he himself does.
Shadow will learn that the past does not die, that everyone, including his late wife, had secrets, and that the stakes are higher than anyone could have imagined.
All around them a storm of epic proportions threatens to break. Soon Shadow and Wednesday will be swept up into a conflict as old as humanity itself. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being fought -- and the prize is the very soul of America.
As unsettling as it is exhilarating, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. Magnificently told, this work of literary magic will haunt the reader far beyond the final page.
(haettu Amazonista Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:02 -0400)
Ensimmäinen testikierros on päättynyt. Käy ryhmässä Open Shelves Classification tutustumassa asiaan.
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