[ SECRET POST #1642 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1642 ⌋


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 238 secrets from Secret Submission Post #235.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 1 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Give American Gods a whirl. It's awesome.

[(Anonymous)]

Or don't.
I read it, and it didn't change my mind - I still think he's criminally overrated.

[ell-de-gothia.livejournal.com]

Seconded. A lot of other things he's written are overrated (it's not bad, it's just impossible for it to live up to the hype), but American Gods is one of my favourite books ever.

[deadtree.livejournal.com]

I actually thought it was terribly dull. What got me (other than Good Omens, and half of that was Terry Pratchett) to believe in Gaiman's talent was The Graveyard Book.

[hikari87.livejournal.com]

Word. It's the only one of his books I genuinely LOVE (The Graveyard Book, I mean.) My one friend is batty about Gaiman and rhapsodized about Stardust to me till I finally read it, and quite frankly I found it boring. I just don't enjoy most of his stuff. Although if there is ever a sequel to TGB I'll be all over that thing.

[deadtree.livejournal.com]

I have a friend (with whom I almost always agree about things like books) who is batty about everything Gaiman's written, too :\ I think he's incredibly creative, but he doesn't use a writing style that really works with his ideas. His writing is usually so dry. He seems to describe the things that don't really require description, and skim over the parts that I want him to elaborate. TGB is brilliant though-- he leaves just the right amount to your imagination. I've also found his short stories really nice. But the novels of his that I've read have always seemed like wasted potential.

[fairhearing.livejournal.com]

American Gods is awful :(

[lies-unfurl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not as big a fan of his books for younger readers, but American Gods is one of my favorites.

[ketita.livejournal.com]

I wasn't so impressed by American Gods. The plot was unsurprising, to my mind, and there was just something a bit smug about it.

[poisontea.livejournal.com]

American Gods was okay! The two I'd definitely recommend to anybody are The Graveyard Book and Neverwhere, though.

And Good Omens, but that one almost goes without saying. :P

[(Anonymous)]

American Gods is good for the stories within the story and the beginning of the plot, but the climax and obligatory twist ending are standard fare. There are a lot of random sex scenes that are just fucking weird as hell and don't really seem to fit. (I'm no prude either, it's just some of them are really bizarre.)

It's a book I still recommend to people while warning that it's not "mind-blowing' like most people make it out to be.

If you liked Carnivale, you'll probably like American Gods. Good character stories, horrible rushed ending, but still decent.