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Apr 10, 2020janerf rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
As Shadow is about to be released from prison, he learns that his beloved wife has been killed in an accident. Feeling he has nothing else to lose, he becomes involved in a dangerous scheme that could cause him to lose more than he ever imagined. I have never liked stories of gods who are tortured and die on a gallows/cross/tree. And here I read it the last week of Lent. Yikes. Odin, Osiris, Adoni, Mithra, finally Jesus. I pretty much quit watching/reading science fiction, too, with ET. The dying and rising just doesn't work. Sheesh. Lord of the Rings. Get over it. People die and don't come back. Dead. Like Laura. (...finally...) I never really cared about the main character. That’s kind of something that’s central to liking a story. I first thought this was a fantasy tongue in cheek comedy, but I think Gaiman and his fans take all this seriously, even if they’re all atheists. Just weird. What’s his final message? That it’s enough to be a man, says Shadow, a man doesn’t need people to worship him to keep on. Hmmm... It took 20 hours to say this... I’m just underwhelmed. BTW Odin is of the Aesir gods; the Vanir are the older Norse gods. The Vanir never made it to America...? Hmmm...