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▾Information om boken ▾LibraryThings rekommendationer  26 0 Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders av Neil Gaiman (Anonym användare, moonstormer)Anonym användare: It's a great collection all around but the kicker is this collection includes a novella about Shadow a couple years after the events of American Gods moonstormer: Fragile Things contains a short story with the same character as is in American Gods. Both are highly recommended. 25 2 Neverwhere av Neil Gaiman (WilliamPascoe)WilliamPascoe: Phenominally brilliant fantasy . 23 2 Anansi Boys av Neil Gaiman (infiniteletters) 10 0 Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile av Bill Willingham (sbuehrle) 11 1 Nattpatrullen av Sergei Lukyanenko (citygirl)citygirl: When the supernatural collides with modern life. One in Moscow, one in the US. 17 7 Små gudar av Terry Pratchett (MyriadBooks)MyriadBooks: For the necessity of belief. 10 2 Mästaren och Margarita av Mikhail Bulgakov (klarusu)klarusu: The same sense of unreality layered over a real-world setting, the same undercurrent of humour but this time it's the Devil that lands in Moscow 8 1 Last Call av Tim Powers (grizzly.anderson, MyriadBooks)grizzly.anderson: Both are about old world gods making their place in the new world. MyriadBooks: For aspiring to win in a bargain with gods. 9 4 Pestens tid av Stephen King (clif_hiker) 7 2 Un Lun Dun av China Miéville (bertyboy)bertyboy: Alternative London for alternative fantasy. Have a go! 6 1 King Rat av China Miéville (Runkst) 11 7 Tedags för dystra själar av Douglas Adams (WoodsieGirl) 6 2 Eight Days of Luke av Diana Wynne Jones (guyalice)guyalice: Neil Gaiman was surprised to discover that the concept of Eight Days of Luke was very similar to what he had initially planned for the plot of American Gods. He dropped the day-theme to avoid too many similarities and gave props to Wynne Jones. 4 0 The Wood Wife av Terri Windling (Larkken) 3 0 Someplace to be Flying av Charles de Lint (MyriadBooks) 5 2 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal av Christopher Moore (andomck)andomck: Religion, realism, fantasy, humor, low brow, etc. Makes sense to me. 3 0 The Bone Clocks av David Mitchell (sturlington)sturlington: The Bone Clocks reminded me strongly of Neil Gaiman and David Mitchell has said that Gaiman was an influence. 3 0 Angelmaker av Nick Harkaway (BookshelfMonstrosity) 4 1 Rivers of London av Ben Aaronovitch (Chricke) 5 2 The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America av Bill Bryson (rockhopper_penguin)rockhopper_penguin: I read these two books one after another. It wasn't a deliberate decision, but the two did seem to work well together. The books visit a few of the same places, and it's interesting to note how differently they are portrayed in each.
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives. "A town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but without a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."  When people came to America they brought us with them. They brought me, and Loki, and Thor, Anansi and the Lion-God, Leprechauns and Kobalds and Banshees, Kubera and Frau Holle and Ashtaroth, and they brought you. We rode here in their minds, and we took root. We travelled with the settlers to the new lands across the ocean. The land is vast. Soon enough, our people abandoned us, remembered us only as creatures of the old land, as things that had not come with them to the new. Our true believers passed on, or stopped believing, and we were left, lost and scared and dispossessed, only what little smidgens of worship or belief we could find. And to get by as best we could. 'So that's what we've done, gotten by, out on the edges of things, where no-one was watching us too closely.'  Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.  All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.  There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.  * There is a secret that the casinos possess, a secret they hold and guard and prize, the holiest of their mysteries. For most people do not gamble to win money, after all, although that is what is advertised, sold, claimed, and dreamed. But that is merely the easy lie that gets them through the enormous, ever-open, welcoming doors. The secret is this: people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and turn with the cards and lose themselves, with the coins, in the slots. They may brag about the nights they won, the money they took from the casino, but they treasure, secretly treasure, the times they lost. It's a sacrifice, of sorts.  People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.  “Gods are great,” said Atsula, slowly, as if she were comprehending a great secret. “But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return…”  | |
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Känns Wednesday bekant? I så fall är detta kanske inte boken för dig. Har man god koll på nordisk mytologi kommer man nämligen att halvt kunna gissa sig till var det hela kommer sluta, även om man kanske inte får fram alla detaljer. Samtidigt känns bokens inre mytologi på ett sätt som myten om humlan som bara kan flyga för att den inte borde kunna det: mycket tid spenderas på frågan om tro och den kraft som finns i den, men den förklara aldrig var kristendomen passar in; Jesus nämns i förbigående, men mer än så blir det inte.
Samtidigt har jag tyvärr en känsla av att den inte är riktigt så originell som den borde vara: konceptet med gudar som går bland oss och lever på vår tro, liksom de vagt samhällskritiska idéerna om hur vi numera offrar tid vid televisionens altare, känns som något som redan diskuterats på annan plats, och om man tar bort det, så blir det bara kvar en roman som tecknar en bild av ett USA som jag inte riktigt kan relatera till, en hel del mytologiska referenser att slå upp för den som så önskar, och en intrig som man som sagt kan ana konturerna av. Visst finns det intressanta bitar, men det är lite för långt emellan dem för min smak. (