Neil Gaiman
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| Original Title: | American Gods |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | American Gods #1 |
| Characters: | Shadow Moon, Mr. Wednesday, Spider, Laura Moon, Hinzelmann, Easter, Whiskey Jack, Loki, Odin, Mr. Ibis, Samantha Black Crow, Bilquis, Media, Mad Sweeney, Czernobog, Mr. Jacquel, Mr. Nancy, Chad Mulligan, Margaret Black Crow, Mr. Town, Mr. World, Technical Boy |
| Setting: | United States of America Chicago, Illinois(United States) Chattanooga, Tennessee(United States) …more Minnesota(United States) Wisconsin(United States) Illinois(United States) …less |
| Literary Awards: | Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2001), Hugo Award for Best Novel (2002), Nebula Award for Best Novel (2002), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2002), International Horror Guild Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001) World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2002), SFX Award for Best Novel (2002), Geffen Award (2003), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2002), British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001), Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nominee for Roman étranger (2003), Prix Bob Morane for roman traduit (2003), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (August Derlith Fantasy Award) (2002) |
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Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.
Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...
This is the author's preferred text, never before published in the UK, and is about 12,000 words longer than the previous UK edition.
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| Title | : | American Gods (American Gods #1) |
| Author | : | Neil Gaiman |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Tenth Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 635 pages |
| Published | : | June 21st 2011 by William Morrow (first published June 19th 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Young Adult. Childrens. Fantasy. Middle Grade |
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In 2003, I walked away from my childhood religion a high control (some would say abusive) group with a tiny little worldview and a severe superiority complex. This was my reality:I believed with all my being that the things depicted above were real, and were just over the event horizon. Leaving meant losing almost every friend I had ever made since childhood, it created a rift with my still devout family, and quite possibly saved my life. Is it any wonder that fiction alternate realities,A man was swallowed by a woman's vagina - so my mom wrote me a note and now I don't have to review this book anymore.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman, by the authors own description, is a work that has inspired strong emotions and little in between readers have either liked it a lot, or loathed it entirely. Reading some of the reviews bears witness to this dichotomy. I liked it, liked it a lot, but I can also understand why someone may dislike the work. Gaiman, in his storyteller way, has stepped over boundaries and stepped on toes. And not just religious or theological ideas, but nationalistic ideals as well.
This is an exceptional tale. And the idea of this tale, the central concept, might even be better than the tale itself. Yet, its still a masterfully-written, wonderful book, which tells you just how fantastic a concept it is. It was published in 2001 and won the 2002 Hugo and Nebula (and yes, Im just now reading it). I read the ten-year anniversary edition with the extra 12,000 words.Compared to Europe, America has no mythology and hardly a history. Norse mythology can be traced back to the 13th
My literary promiscuity being what it is, I have read and loved a lot of novels in many different genres. However, among the beau coup books that I have loved long time there are a select few that hold a special, hallowed place in my pantheon of favoritesAmerican Gods is one of these elite. Gaimans writing is both subdued and poetic. It is deeply emotional, but without a hint of melodrama. His descriptions are elaborate yet not drawn out. He tells a huge, complex, eternal story, one small tale
إن كنت مهتما بالأساطير والخرافات والأديان القديمةوالروايات الحديثة السريعة الإيقاع فإنك ستحب هذه الرواية "If you are to survive, you must believe." "Believe what?" asked Shadow. "What should I believe?" He stared at Shadow, the buffalo man, and he drew himself up huge, and his eyes filled with fire. He opened his spit-flecked buffalo mouth and it was red inside with the flames that burned inside him, under the earth. "Everything," roared the buffalo man!::::::::::::::هي ملحمة خرافية عن الآلهة
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