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(4.08) | 12 / 1440 | Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever he the same.… (mais) |
▾Recomendações do LibraryThing  ▾Recomendações de membros  26 0Utilizador anónimo: It's a great collection all around but the kicker is this collection includes a novella about Shadow a couple years after the events of American Gods moonstormer: Fragile Things contains a short story with the same character as is in American Gods. Both are highly recommended. 252 Neverwhere por Neil Gaiman (WilliamPascoe)WilliamPascoe: Phenominally brilliant fantasy . 232 Anansi Boys por Neil Gaiman (infiniteletters)100 Fables, Vol. 01: Legends in Exile por Bill Willingham (sbuehrle)111 Night Watch por Sergei Lukyanenko (citygirl)citygirl: When the supernatural collides with modern life. One in Moscow, one in the US. 177 Small Gods por Terry Pratchett (MyriadBooks)MyriadBooks: For the necessity of belief. 102 The Master and Margarita por Mikhail Bulgakov (klarusu)klarusu: The same sense of unreality layered over a real-world setting, the same undercurrent of humour but this time it's the Devil that lands in Moscow 81 Last Call por Tim Powers (grizzly.anderson, MyriadBooks)grizzly.anderson: Both are about old world gods making their place in the new world. MyriadBooks: For aspiring to win in a bargain with gods. 94 The Stand {1978} por Stephen King (clif_hiker)72 Un Lun Dun por China Miéville (bertyboy)bertyboy: Alternative London for alternative fantasy. Have a go! 61 King Rat por China Miéville (Runkst)117 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul por Douglas Adams (WoodsieGirl)62 Eight Days of Luke por Diana Wynne Jones (guyalice)guyalice: Neil Gaiman was surprised to discover that the concept of Eight Days of Luke was very similar to what he had initially planned for the plot of American Gods. He dropped the day-theme to avoid too many similarities and gave props to Wynne Jones. 40 The Wood Wife por Terri Windling (Larkken)30 Someplace to be Flying por Charles de Lint (MyriadBooks)52 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal por Christopher Moore (andomck)andomck: Religion, realism, fantasy, humor, low brow, etc. Makes sense to me. 30 The Bone Clocks por David Mitchell (sturlington)sturlington: The Bone Clocks reminded me strongly of Neil Gaiman and David Mitchell has said that Gaiman was an influence. 30 Angelmaker por Nick Harkaway (BookshelfMonstrosity)41 Rivers of London por Ben Aaronovitch (Chricke)52 The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America por Bill Bryson (rockhopper_penguin)rockhopper_penguin: I read these two books one after another. It wasn't a deliberate decision, but the two did seem to work well together. The books visit a few of the same places, and it's interesting to note how differently they are portrayed in each.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua. One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies, Norwegian-Americans the nisser, Greek-Americans the vryókolas, but only in relation to events remembered in the Old Country. When I once asked why such demons were not seen in America, my informants giggled confusedly and said, "They're scared to pass the ocean, it's too far," pointing out that Christ and the apostles never came to America.
—Richard Dorson, "A Theory For American Folklore", American Folklore and the Historian  The boundaries of our country sir? Why sir, on the north we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis, on the east we are bounded by the rising sun, on the south we are bounded by the procession of the Equinoxes, and on the west by the Day of Judgement
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"A town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but without a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul." When people came to America they brought us with them. They brought me, and Loki, and Thor, Anansi and the Lion-God, Leprechauns and Kobalds and Banshees, Kubera and Frau Holle and Ashtaroth, and they brought you. We rode here in their minds, and we took root. We travelled with the settlers to the new lands across the ocean.
The land is vast. Soon enough, our people abandoned us, remembered us only as creatures of the old land, as things that had not come with them to the new. Our true believers passed on, or stopped believing, and we were left, lost and scared and dispossessed, only what little smidgens of worship or belief we could find. And to get by as best we could.
'So that's what we've done, gotten by, out on the edges of things, where no-one was watching us too closely.' Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end. All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end. There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous. * There is a secret that the casinos possess, a secret they hold and guard and prize, the holiest of their mysteries. For most people do not gamble to win money, after all, although that is what is advertised, sold, claimed, and dreamed. But that is merely the easy lie that gets them through the enormous, ever-open, welcoming doors.
The secret is this: people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and turn with the cards and lose themselves, with the coins, in the slots. They may brag about the nights they won, the money they took from the casino, but they treasure, secretly treasure, the times they lost. It's a sacrifice, of sorts. People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen. “Gods are great,” said Atsula, slowly, as if she were comprehending a great secret. “But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return…” | |
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I'm pretty sure anyone going into this book expecting a regular story with a simple, or even an intricate, plot will be fairly confused and disappointed. Luckily, just about the only thing I knew about it was that it was not a regular story.
For me, the best parts of the book were not the main storyline, but all the other stories within. How different waves of immigrants came to America, how their gods came with them, and how they fared in their new country. (