Finally got round to reading American Gods. I'm down to the last few pages, and I hate to say it, but I began to get bored around chapter 17 or 18 and I'm hoping for an interesting twist or something to wake me up out of the slump of Shadow's death on the tree. It is an interesting read, and while I enjoyed it until the last few chapters and vividly visualize a lot of repeated characters from Gaiman's past, I suspect the book is meandering and taking too long a turn to the end. I don't know, perhaps a lot of the intrusions ("Coming to America...") are supposed to link back to the main story etc. etc., but I can't help but forget where I am exactly when I get back to Shadow's story. Perhaps I just have attention defecit, or the inability to follow the story through to its metaphors, allusions, blah, blah. Takes too much effort and I'm being a lazy reader. More on this when the book finally ends.
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