Book Review: American Gods June 30, 2006
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I finished Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” which I would have underlined but that is one of the actual formatting abilities this thing doesn’t give me. It’s a large read, around 600 pages that took me quite a while to get through. Mostly because around page 350ish it just really starts to feel long where it doesn’t need to be. There were alot of moments that I just stopped caring about the little side stories he tells about the different Gods and their coming to America that I would just skip at length after reading several of them since they didn’t really give me much more thought into the God’s themselves since he gives so many different one’s to consider and only focuses on a few. I enjoyed it though, despite it feeling long in some sections, it was still able to compel me to finish and write this. My only other complaint other then it’s overall length is that… well no it’s just the fact that it’s so very long and I don’t see why alot of it couldn’t have been cut down to fit aroudn 400 pages or less. If you are interested in the content of the book a brief synopsis would go like this: Shadow, an ex-convict recently paroled from Jail to tend to his recently deceased wife, is employed by a strange man he meets on a plane ride back home. This guy turns out to be a God, and throughout he learns about the many American God’s and their struggle versus the “new” gods created from our current societies values. I enjoyed the idea he presented but not the overly intense look at so many different God’s and the overall time it took to move the plot through the several plot lines he wanted to develop, they do tie together if you can make it to the end but if you want a more put together/ ties up all it’s lose ends very perfectly tale of his, I suggest “Anansi Boys” instead. It was written after this but is in the same vein of “god’s are among us” and a better presentation of the story he had in mind.
And the story there after… June 9, 2006
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God I can't believe I am watching "The Hills". Grammatically I think that period back there is wrong but… it just feels so right. I have a Tivo and the only good things to watch are all on Hiatus for the Summer, Scrubs, The Office… hmm maybe that was it actually.
I'm sure I have alot of media I could be consuming right now that I've accumulated over the past few years but I just feel so lost. The overwhelming freedom I have is deafening. I'm rather WoW'ed out, been playing alot lately doing not much. Tried Oblivion but I haven't really gotten hooked yet, need to get a few beers and sit down in front of that for a few hours. When you can do anything why is it so hard to do anything at all? Started tweaking the Resume and looking at Jobs. Jen thought I was jumping the gun a bit since I have an easy okay paying job through September, but most would think I'm behind since I could have used this quarter to be looking at jobs… I suppose. But I was at school to be there, not to be looking for a job at the same time or doing much of anything else at the same time. Fucking, this Heidi chick gets a job like that… good I need to stop watching this.
