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After writing some articles about books in Turkish language I have decided also to write in English. Mostly I am a lazy person and sometimes I think that right now in these days my writing skills in English is not as what it used to be, so probably some couple of book articles would be quite lame including this one. I will try anyway…

When I started this site, it was in Turkish and that’s because Turkish is my native language. I am also aware that a book site does not get much (even small) attention from anyone, anywhere. It’s more likely people would want to watch the movie instead of reading. It doesn’t matter that much anyway. I think having a small number of visitors also gives me a chance to write the way I like (not trying to be unrespectful here I must add). This articles may even help me to prevent my English writing skills to get rustier even more.

When I thought about which book I should write about, “Neil Gaiman” was the first author that came up to my mind. Maybe its because I like his books a lot or maybe his “writing” is so good I don’t know. Then, I decided to write about a book that I haven’t written in the site before, so here is the American Gods.

The book is about both mythologycal creatures (Gods, genies and so) and modern life creatures (Internet, media, mass transportation). Gaiman, I believe takes into consideration that the gods are live on the belief of their believer and as America being the new world; the old Gods who came to America with their believers when they came to America as immigrants and such. In the time between the first days of new America and today those old gods loose power since their believers are lost and new gods starts to emerge taking powers from the believers of Internet, Media, Pop music. In the foreground a guy named Shadow plays quite a crucial role being the bodyguard of a strange person who calls himself as Mr. Wednesday. Of all the book, Shadow is the most clueless person find out a completely hidden and new world that actually has gods, goblins, witches and everything that is expected to be only in bed time stories. He even dies and come back from death, still being mostly the clueless guy who starts to understand things in kind of a slow way.

I would not continue about how the story reveals itself. Its for us readers job to read a good book, enjoy it, dream about what the book tells. But I should say that this was the first book of Gaiman’s I have read and it had quite an effect on me. If you ask me Gaiman is a genius about almost anything that an author should have: Imagination (which he has quite a lot and more), his way with words (his sentences themselves are quite the beauty), the fiction of the events in the book (he is mostly the most unexpected in all his works) and also the sincerity you can find in his books. When all gets together it is not easy not to admire him.

If you haven’t had a Neil Gaiman book until now, I strongly recommend you to have one.Neil Gaiman – American Gods

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