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One year for Christmas, a good friend gave me a paperback copy of this book. At the time, I had never heard of it, nor the author, and knowing my taste in books is not really in-line with his (He's a history buff and also a huge fan of Raymond E. Feist), I was admittedly not excited by it. But one day with nothing to read, I started it. And I never put it down. I have since read everything I can get my hands on by Neil Gaiman, as well as seeing MirrorMask (for which he wrote the screenplay). While nothing has lived up to American Gods, everything he has written has been great. If only everyone involved in the arts -- television, movies -- was as imaginative as Gaiman! If I could do it over, I'd start off reading Neverwhere, easing slowly into Gaiman's style, before taking on the more epic American Gods. Update: I decided to listen to the full-cast audio of the author's preferred edition of the book, and I highly recommend it. I had forgotten exactly how much I loved this book, and this audio production made it very easy to fall in love all over again.

2022-11-14 16:47