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I finished it awhile ago, but Neil Gaiman's American Gods is one of the best books I've ever read. Really, anything by Neil Gaiman is pretty awesome. He's friends with Terry Pratchett, how could he be anything but awesome.
I started reading Gaiman's Sandman comic book series and I wasn't immediately hooked but it's tone was pretty cool. So you would recommend American Gods if I enjoy the Sandman series?
The thing about Gaiman is that he's very postmodern, so he drifts in and out of different styles and ideas. He's written very adult books (not naughty, just mature), like American Gods, and he's written comics, and he's written books for kids (my favorite being The Graveyard Book, but the more recognizable being Coraline, which was made into a rather awesome movie by Henry Selick who directed James and the Giant Peach and the Nightmare Before Christmas)
Anyone interested in worldviews or cultural progress or Americana or Fantasy as a genre should read the book. And it should, without any doubt, be part of the canon of postmodern thought.