After three months of complaining, criticising, dragging my feet (and, fortunately, some reading), I managed to finished American Gods. It was only my second Gaiman book, and I definitely liked it more than The Ocean at the End of the Lane. My only regret is that I couldn't read this a little more cursively; stress was building up from school, I got distracted by other books, and I kept giving up after few pages. 
 The action seemed way too slow-paced; I believe it might be from my laziness and inability to get through the book, because as soon as I started reading it properly, it got interesting and full of twists, and hell, I enjoyed the last half of the book. The ending did not let me down either, contrary to my expectations. (view spoiler)[Of course, it had to be one of Wednesday's two-person fraud. And with Loki of all Gods? (hide spoiler)] I certainly did not see that coming! 
 The atmosphere was dark, but didn't lack sense of humour, which was an ideal balance. I know this book is leaning towards the magic-realism genre (which I'm just starting to discover), and magic-realism includes lots of weirdness and philosophical subtext; I noticed that some of my GR friends found American Gods way too strange, but I'll admit that I liked it. Of course, there were some times when I just went "what?!". I feel like there's no need to give examples, since everyone who's read the book just knows what I'm talking about. 
 Honestly, I did not like Shadow at first. I couldn't connect with him and he merely felt...lacking emotion. I'm the kind of reader who wants tones of details, wants to explore characters as if they're real people and know them as if they're friends of relatives. Even Laura had more emotional depth (view spoiler)[and she was literally dead (hide spoiler)]! On the other hand, Mr. Wednesday is one of those characters that I'll forever remember. He was mysterious, witty, and fun to read about. I liked him from the second I met him! 
 One of my biggest problems with this novel (and with magic-realism in general) is that when I was done reading it, I felt that I still needed answers to certain questions, as if Gaiman hadn't revealed everything. Some things seemed pointless, like (view spoiler)[Sam Black Crow. Why did she dream of the buffalo-headed dude? Were Jinn and Salim relevant to the story in any way? Was the "fat kid", whose real name is never mentioned, a God of the internet?(view spoiler)[. As I was saying, I have many unanswered questions... 
 Overall, it was an enjoyable read, mostly for the second half, which portraits Gods as humans, adding interesting concepts based on actual human beliefs and mythology. (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]