Review: American Gods

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

American Gods tells a story about a man being hired as a chauffeur and eventually got stirred up in a war between the old gods and new gods. The premise of the story is crazily interesting and superficial in a good way. Add a sprinkle of magical realism and it exploded the whole dynamic of storytelling.

I love reading dialogues with deep, gripping double-meaning and Neil Gaiman did it so well in American Gods. Maybe most of the time I ain't very sure what's going on because there are too much going on but every line I read, I cherish so dearly. The story is without a doubt hard to digest, with many alienated glossaries and many unexplained myths of Gods.

"Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other."


Reading this is a little difficult but I do every reading the conversations, especially between Shadow and Wednesday.


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