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title = "American Gods - Neil Gaiman"
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date = 2015-04-04
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "neil gaiman", "reviews", "fiction", "american gods",
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"5 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods):
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Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a
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mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he
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encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a
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distant war, a former god and the king of America.
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Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the
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USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions
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threatens to break.
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{{ stars(stars=5) }}
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**A very hard book to read **
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When I was halfway through it, I though I'd give this book 4 stars; when I was
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3/4 through it, I though about giving it only 3 stars; then, in the very end,
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I decided to give 5 stars.
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Thing is, this is not an easy book to read. It's freaking hard, opening
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several threads at once, which give the feel that you're reading things that
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make absolutely nothing to the story. And then, in the very end, all threads
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are neatly closed. If you manage to keep up to the continuous words that feel
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worthless and read till the end, you'll get a nicely packaged story, worth
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your time.
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