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This is a book that hardly needs a review from an obscure blog like mine. Its reputation preceded it, and that is why I picked it up in the first place. But it was just too good not to throw in my two cents. I got started reading Neil Gaiman after I saw the movie Stardust . I was blown away with the whimsy and adventurous romance of the film, and if I loved that, the book was even better. This coincided nicely with the release of The Graveyard Book , and by the time I had finished that, I was firmly in the Neil Gaiman fan camp. So I searched out other people like me and the first thing they all said was, “Read American Gods .” I didn’t listen to them. I read Neverwhere instead, and I am actually quite glad I did, because I feel that all the novels I read leading up to American Gods were preparing me for what I was about to experience. I don’t think that I can say that American Gods is any better than any of the other novels. In fact, I rarely hear fans of Neil Gaiman saying that...