What's is your favorite part of the book?

I'm kinda bias because I saw Neil read a section. In chapter 11, It was the section when Shadow and Odin meed Eostre in the park and then continue to the coffee cafe. What really floored me was when Odin defended his action about short changing the waitress. I could even clearly hearing Odin in my head saying, "May your choices always be so clear."

I love the Easter scenes. And...mmm, Bast. And Horus, and probably the scenes in the town.

I'm not sure I would call it my favorite part but the best...oh, what do they call it? Easter egg? When characters from another work pop up? Anyway, when Shadow and Wednesday were meeting Easter for the first time, there was a young girl with green, orange, and pink hair leading a mongrel dog on a string leash and collar...I've always loved Delerium!

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Actually, my favorite part was the description of the grifts. They funny as hell, and it was that scene that made me figure out what Wednesday's plan was, and unravel the book. n_n

*g* I love Del's cameo too...although, if you read the Well forum, Neil said he wasn't sure if that was her or not. I prefer to believe, for I have great faith that was Del.

Even though I saw Neil read the first 10 pages of the book, my favorite part would have to be outside the motel in the center of America, when Shadow finally realizes the Low Key is Loki, because that's when I figured out the grift. But I must say, hearing a small, quiet english man read the parts of the prisoners ("...It ain't true what they say about the Greeks neither...") was quite an experience.

"Say Nevermore" said Shadow.
"F**k You" said the raven.

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I wish I had the book in front of me so I could quote from the passage, but I’m sure you’ll know the one I mean: Sam the girl’s “I believe” speech while she and Shadow are making what turns out to be a fateful drive to a bar.

Sam's "I believe" speech was incredible.

Mine has to be the checker games. When Shadow bets his life, that's when we first start seeing what he's made of.

that 'i believe' speech would make a wonderful monologue...too bad i'm not an actor...
i think i liked the raven bit best, because it made me laugh out loud...
that and the part where he tells his wife he loves her, just before she dies (and doesn't get back up, that is)...was cryin my eyes out.
well hell, i think i liked the whole thing best!

I loved the bit with the raven,

I think my favorite part is when his wife comes back for the first time, it's so surreal, creepy and touching.

---Steve
http:///www.bluerosestudios.net

I listened to the book and found the "I believe" speech to be unreal. Loved it!

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"Say Nevermore" said Shadow.
"F**k You" said the raven.

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Right on! That was definitely one of the most amusing moments of the book.

Nod, I loved the "I beleive" speech... I'm actually making a T-shirt practically as we speak with the cover on the front and that on the back, assuming that the t-shirt transfer forms work onto a black t-shirt... although I don't think I'd say it was a favorite part of the book, it was lamost mroe like an interlude.... its like it wasnt really part of the narrative, just like how shadow wants to applaud when she's done, it's more like condencement of the book, or rather of us, the reader... does that make sense? Dunno... but favorite parts... I dunno, I'm not gonna go there...

karaoke club with mr. nancy.

funny and redemptive.

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"Say Nevermore" said Shadow.
"F**k You" said the raven.

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Nightwalker! How are ya? And whatever happened to NGC?

I dunno if I'd say it's my favorite, but I do love this scene.

I loved the line "Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine," perhaps particularly because at the time I was reading on a southbound L train heading into the Loop.

Amazing how a bit of actual laughter can brighten up one of those trains for a second...

But I'm particularly loving the stories-within-stories. The tale of Salim and the ifrit was wonderful, one of the cleanest and most affecting pieces I've read from Neil. I think his greatest strength has always been his ability to bring you inside another culture, whether that culture is real or imagined--it's why "Ramadan" and "Dream Hunters" work as well as they do.

Bob

Yeah -- I liked all the stories-within-the-story, but I think Salim and the jinn (ifrit, whatever) was my favourite part. It has that clean, sparse style that I associate with all his stuff, and the sharp note of humourous poignancy -- the "I'm laughing to keep from crying, but this is going to shade over into tears any minute now," too. Nice (in the "nice and accurate" sense) and tightly crafted, and utterly memorable.

I feel like I'm describing a wine -- "Sweet and tart, with a full body, citrus notes, and a slight tang of the cedars of Lebanon. Very round on the tongue, but with a clean, crisp finish -- tastes like desert sunshine and everyman's love and despair."

-k

The girl with the dog when they meet Easter is my favorite part too. Not because of who the girl and the dog may be, but because they are and they aren't them at the same time.

I love good ambivilance.

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