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kleinbl00  ·  3625 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'bl00's Reviews #3: "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Don't read that. You need the illustrations. 13 clocks is an illustrated novel and the illustrations are fucking sublime. Hit the library if need be. I've given out 13 clocks as a christmas gift a few times. It was a major part of my childhood, and is, in my opinion, the standard against which all 'once upon a time' stories are to be judged.

I'm a Douglas Adams fan, but the Dirk Gently stuff, as with most of his stuff, was comedy first, metaphor second. He was certainly clever. He was not, however, a starer-into-the-Abyss, more of a smug glancer if you will. American Gods assumes the cloak of allegory; Teatime was kind of more of a political cartoon.

(CL&D is one of those crazy fever dreams you get when you've both drunk too much and smoked too much pot all at once, except that it lingers with you and won't go away once you've sobered up)