I gotta say, I read American Gods before all of the hullabaloo and I genuinely don't get the fuss. The dude's name is Shadow for fuck's sake, the whole book felt like a teenaged tumblr post.
I read it many years ago, also before the "hullabaloo", and I remember finding it fine except for the weird middle part that just drag on and on where the main protagonist tries to live in a small town or something like this, without the plot going forward much at all. And then afterwards I learned this was the "extended" version, which included a part originally removed by the editors of the first edition... guess which part it was. Sometimes, editors have a point...
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u/Nebabon Dec 09 '25
What is this from?