What are you reading?

[chionos]

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Discovering that all of the knowledge I hoarded about ancient Egypt as a kid has not gone totally unused as there are quite a few references to gods and terminology in American Gods and I am stupidly satisfied that I am catching them all.

It's finally starting to pick up and I am pretty stoked to see where it goes.

(I feel kind of dirty using this. Like, should I have shion's permission to use it, first? It's just the only fitting emote)

American Gods is so exquisitely perfectly yummy. It might even be time for me to read it again.

Please, if you have comments on the book after you're done, make them all positive or I'll be forced to hate you forever.




I mean, not really, but I'll be super super sad and maybe even cry a little.

Well, it's been rough to get into. My fabulous Neil Gaiman and a succubus with an enveloping vagina do not really mix. That was a disturbingly off-putting scene!

I'm not going to defend it here, but it works. Try not to dwell on it, though.

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Shadow has been an incredibly boring character up until just recently, I've felt like he's just so goddamn bland. The chapter with Salim and the ifrit are where things changed for me, and I started to find the story interesting and curious rather than a chore. And since visiting The Egypt Crew Mortuary, things have been awesome. I'm on board now. Still trying to figure out what god Shadow is, though, as he obviously is one.

That's the best part, figuring it out, seeing how it unfolds.

Also, somehow Wednesday has defaulted in my mind to a mixture of Jackie Earle Haley and Tom Waits. And maybe Mickey Rourke.

I had this in my head from the beginning.


A little cliched perhaps, but I couldn't shake it once it was there.