I liked it, I did. I wanted to love it, for it's Neil Gaiman, and so many others praise this as his best work. Maybe I would have liked the shorter, non-anniversary edition more. I am not a fast reader, but a book that I thought was amazing would not take me a month to read, even a big one. 
 Still, Gaiman is an amazing writer. I heard his voice in my head when I read Shadow's lines. The characters are intense, varied, deep. One complaint--there are just too many of them. Three-quarters of the way through names were being dropped and characters were showing up that I know I had met earlier, yet I just could not remember them. And I couldn't be bothered to search through the book to find out exactly what part they played in Shadow's grand journey. 
 I cared about what happened at the end, and enjoyed most of the weird side-turns the characters took to get to their inevitable climactic scene. The ending was quite fulfilling. Next, I might need to try his current novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane.