I have not yet read American Gods, but plan to do so.

What should I be on the lookout for?

Give me the most detailed spoilers, (especially of a thematic variety) that you care to.

Er, I don't quite follow. You want us to tell you the entirety of the book before you read it? What's the point?

watch out for all the low key hints, harhar

I do not want a detailed spoiler. But, following from what gloomy said, "low key hints". For example, what is Gaiman's take on a given idea.

I have a passing familiarity with him. I worked in a comic store (under the table) as a kid, and I skimmed some Sandman, and read the two Death series.

I know this will sound like heresy on this board, but the two stories I remember most are Good Omens and a Batman story where the Riddler seems to be remembering pre-Crisis DC.


American Gods is on my short list of reading material. (I have a good deal of non-fiction to catch up on, but AG is high on my fiction list.)

I don't think there is any heresy on this board. Several folk here dislike a lot of his stuff, don't regularly (if at all) read his blog, and/or don't pick up his new stuff

What? wh-who are they? so i can start beat them with a stick.

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Originally posted by GMZoe:
I don't think there is any heresy on this board. Several folk here dislike a lot of his stuff, don't regularly (if at all) read his blog, and/or don't pick up his new stuff

I can see that. I wandered on here owing to a newscast about Gaiman, but I have posted more in the Harry Potter thread.

So, does anyone else recall that Batman story? I think it was in Secret Origins, sometime in the late 80s.