{"id":191,"date":"2007-05-22T09:52:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T09:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/22\/american-gods\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T07:53:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T15:53:23","slug":"american-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2007\/05\/22\/american-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"American Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-191\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Gods-Neil-Gaiman\/dp\/0380789035\/ref=pd_bbs_2\/002-5680322-1501611?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1179917117&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"NewWindow\">American Gods<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Neil Gaiman<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mass Market Paperback: <\/strong>624 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>HarperTorch (April 30, 2002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10: <\/strong>0380789035<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13: <\/strong>78-0380789030<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I saw a used copy of this in a bookstore just before leaving on vacation and figured I&#8217;d give it a try.  I loved his Sandman series of graphic novels and hoped that he might write a good traditional novel.<\/p>\n<p>He did and then some.<\/p>\n<p>The book develops a bit slowly, but once the first characters are set up it starts to move, shake, shatter.  The characters are developed as they appear in the story, and different parts of the characters are exposed as you need to know them.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll guess the ending.  This one is worth the read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-191\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 191);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-191\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-191\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: American Gods Author: Neil Gaiman Mass Market Paperback: 624 pages Publisher: HarperTorch (April 30, 2002) ISBN-10: 0380789035 ISBN-13: 78-0380789030 I saw a used copy of this in a bookstore just before leaving on vacation and figured I&#8217;d give it a try. I loved his Sandman series of graphic novels and hoped that he might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2344,382],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}