Comments on: ‘American Gods’ by Neil Gaiman

By: C

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:57:32 +0000

American Gods blew my mind.

By: Yoram Roth

Yoram Roth — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:05:18 +0000

I thought of the Anansi Boys as a light and fun read. Thanks @Fiona, I never even heard of Jonathan Carroll.

By: joshuasbones

joshuasbones — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:17:27 +0000

When you next need a Gaiman fix I’d definitely try Anansi Boys and The Sandman.

By: Julio

Julio — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:01:30 +0000

Yeah- and just to add something, Anansi’s Boys may be the sequel to American Gods, but don’t expect to follow it’s tone. It’s the same world with many of the characters playing returning roles, and it ponders on much of the same topics that Gods does. However it’s much, much light-hearted, so much in times it reads as a caricature of its predecessor.
I found this last thing to be it’s most significant triumph- a sequel that succesfully delivers a continuation of themes, however does it with its own new, voice and not merely an echoe.

By: Astro Boy

Astro Boy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:01 +0000

Neil Gaiman is awesome!
Do read more stuff he wrote, cause it is definetly worth it!
I have been reading The Road Cormac McCarthy and I find it McCarthy’s writing in many ways similiar to Gaiman’s.

American Gods is unique!

By: Fiona

Fiona — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:16:22 +0000

If you like Neil Gaiman’s work, you HAVE to read Jonathan Carroll. Carroll also happens to be Gaiman’s favorite novelist and he says so all the time. Start with SLEEPING IN FLAME or THE WOODEN SEA. Carroll is an American who has lived for years in Vienna, Austria. In Europe and Asia his work is huge, but it’s so sui generis (a kind of mixtape of Gaiman and Murakami) that American readers have been slow to embrace him although he has big fans like Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem and Stephen King who are always singing his praises.

By: Gideon

Gideon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:12:57 +0000

I second the Smoke and Mirrors, along with Fragile Things (I would add Anansi Boys but I haven’t finished it yet). Annddd, if you don’t mind children’s lit, Coraline and The Graveyard Book are quite lovely.

By: liz

liz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:03:41 +0000

that’s one of my favorite books. you should try anansi boys or smoke & mirrors (short stories). he’s such a great author, i’m currently on volume 5 of sandman and it’s one of the most beautiful things i’ve experienced.