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When I started reading this book, I found it rather boring because I like my books straightforward, no experiments with words or ideas etc. I like to know what I'm reading. It's just like with art - I like to know what I'm looking at. But I think that I made a huge mistake at the very beginning - I tried to find some sense in the book, to order the content neatly. With Gaiman, it's not possible. Though once I stopped doing that, I found the book surprisingly enjoyable.
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Lots of fun concepts here, but the book was darker than I was hoping it would be. I was hoping for something a little closer to Anansi Boys, some humor to lighten the bleak world of forgotten and lonely gods. Still, like everything of Gaiman's that I've read, a really captivating story.
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Very untypically for me when it comes to Gaiman, it took me awhile to really get into this novel. Not that it wasn't interesting with Gaiman's usual array of mythological references, just that I didn't really find it captivating - and it was long. This probably pays re-reading.
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Completely brilliant; the latter part of this book hits like a punch in the mouth. You expect dark elements from Neil Gaiman, and in this book, you get them in spades.
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Jun 18, 2007
William
marked it as to-read
Jun 21, 2007
Sarah Sammis
rated it
it was ok
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Sep 02, 2007
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