I read it. I got it. I can't say I liked it. It was beautifully written, vivid with some really fantastic lines, but...I guess it's important for me to have someone in the story to like. Was Shadow likeable? Did he actually have a personlity? And it wasn't...uh...any fun. I'm probably just not the right person to review this, because I like my fiction to be entertaining. You know, an escape. It doesn't have to be a bright and sunny escape. Doom and gloom can be fun sometimes. I get why many people would really like American Gods. I'm just not one of those people.