American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman d...
American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton, Amazon.com
我看的是2020版作者签名的出版十周年纪念作者钦定版本 （10th Anniversary Edition, the author's preferred text).
主线情节是部节奏缓慢的公路片，路过无数个美国中部无名小镇，以及那些风格诡奇的公路风景区。但我已经默默收藏了the house on the rock, the rock city 和美国地理中心点这些神奇景观，待日后亲自参观。支...我看的是2020版作者签名的出版十周年纪念作者钦定版本 （10th Anniversary Edition, the author's preferred text).
主线情节是部节奏缓慢的公路片，路过无数个美国中部无名小镇，以及那些风格诡奇的公路风景区。但我已经默默收藏了the house on the rock, the rock city 和美国地理中心点这些神奇景观，待日后亲自参观。支线那些小故事倒给人留下更深印象，先民和旧神，黑奴贸易，等等，是移民开垦了这片大陆带来了美国众神。(展开)
A thrilling, sensual, chilling, yet heart-warming, and naive, and hilarious story! Shadow真的好puppy🥺附线Essie的那一部分好喜欢！感觉可以单独拎出来拍成作品，人类对于生与死，对于某些信仰，都是相通的。Gaiman好会讲故事！“The outcome of the battle is unimport...A thrilling, sensual, chilling, yet heart-warming, and naive, and hilarious story! Shadow真的好puppy🥺附线Essie的那一部分好喜欢！感觉可以单独拎出来拍成作品，人类对于生与死，对于某些信仰，都是相通的。Gaiman好会讲故事！“The outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.” 不管是主线shadow，还是附线中的人物，都是那么吸引人，丝毫不会因为不了解书中的神话典故而失去兴趣，我觉得他预设的读者也不需要这些背景知识，因为书中的每一个人物形象都太鲜明了(展开)
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尼尔·盖曼 作者
萧星寒
四川科学技术出版社2006版
注销
北京联合出版公司2017版
0 有用 Albatross 2016-02-06 07:13:53
不常读奇幻小说，不过Neil Gaiman写得真好
2 有用 冰糖木耳 2017-11-19 16:39:38
终于读完了！没有想象得那么好看，但是整体不差。杂糅了太多东西，所以反而读得不畅快。读到最后恍然大悟一些东西，尤其是最后Shadow在湖里那段的故事真是看得头皮发麻……【最喜欢的竟然是盖曼描摹景色的几处文字，真真太赞！
0 有用 gseed12 2013-06-29 20:04:13
朗讀者朗讀的很好
0 有用 砼 2015-06-01 12:30:58
终于看完了。好看ww有时间会再刷一遍。里面涉及到的哲学和宗教和神太多太多，背景资料我了解得实在太少。而且据说要出剧了？
0 有用 熊類爆弾 2011-03-17 18:48:27
就這麼宏大的話題與結構來說，算不得偉大的作品，不過也很驚人。
0 有用 Ιάννης Ξενάκης 2024-05-09 00:02:17 广东
厕所读物
0 有用 Tear 2024-03-25 11:11:20 美国
看了半年终于看完了，食之无味弃之可惜。不能说完全一无是处吧，创意/立意是ok的，但作者没把握住，剧情不行，结尾一坨……！似乎更适合写短篇或者中篇，里面几个小故事比主线精彩多了。读的第一本尼尔盖曼，感觉他是个神棍。
0 有用 yvtp 2023-11-26 02:52:47 美国
我看的是2020版作者签名的出版十周年纪念作者钦定版本 （10th Anniversary Edition, the author's preferred text). 主线情节是部节奏缓慢的公路片，路过无数个美国中部无名小镇，以及那些风格诡奇的公路风景区。但我已经默默收藏了the house on the rock, the rock city 和美国地理中心点这些神奇景观，待日后亲自参观。支... 我看的是2020版作者签名的出版十周年纪念作者钦定版本 （10th Anniversary Edition, the author's preferred text). 主线情节是部节奏缓慢的公路片，路过无数个美国中部无名小镇，以及那些风格诡奇的公路风景区。但我已经默默收藏了the house on the rock, the rock city 和美国地理中心点这些神奇景观，待日后亲自参观。支线那些小故事倒给人留下更深印象，先民和旧神，黑奴贸易，等等，是移民开垦了这片大陆带来了美国众神。 (展开)
0 有用 神知吾知 2023-02-26 00:49:20 上海
One and only of a kind. 多一星给创意，刻画还是模糊的
0 有用 Sc 2023-01-26 13:29:21 江苏
A thrilling, sensual, chilling, yet heart-warming, and naive, and hilarious story! Shadow真的好puppy🥺附线Essie的那一部分好喜欢！感觉可以单独拎出来拍成作品，人类对于生与死，对于某些信仰，都是相通的。Gaiman好会讲故事！“The outcome of the battle is unimport... A thrilling, sensual, chilling, yet heart-warming, and naive, and hilarious story! Shadow真的好puppy🥺附线Essie的那一部分好喜欢！感觉可以单独拎出来拍成作品，人类对于生与死，对于某些信仰，都是相通的。Gaiman好会讲故事！“The outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.” 不管是主线shadow，还是附线中的人物，都是那么吸引人，丝毫不会因为不了解书中的神话典故而失去兴趣，我觉得他预设的读者也不需要这些背景知识，因为书中的每一个人物形象都太鲜明了 (展开)