American Gods

God this book sucks. I heard so many good things about it and Neil Gaiman and so decided to read it. No matter how mind-numbingly boring it got I held on trying to finish the book because so many people liked it. But no, the story is about as dull as it can get Our main character is a nothing character. You can't even say he's a flat character, he is a block of wood with the ability to be where the important stuff happens. He gives no shits about anything. He's not an interesting character on the inside or out. He works for literal gods and his reaction is nothing more than the barest an acknowledgment that it is happening. His reaction is akin to finding out your fish is a different species than you thought. Sure, that's nice to know but who really cares. I'm not asking for an emotional breakdown just be interested, ask a few questions at the very least. And there is nothing interesting about the gods. the point of the story is that the gods from all the mythologies exist. Wow, that's cool, how does this affect the world in any significant way. Can we look forward to something interesting about them like lives that are even the slightest bit different from your average human? NO. They are all just depressed people. Odin is basically just a scam artist. Nothing else not even incorporating the mythology, like making him need to know stuff which was an important part of him in Norse culture. No, just some scam artist dude. The book has nothing compelling about it. The main character does not want anything. Even finding out his wife cheated on him elicits like a, I felt bad for a bit, then it was immediately cleared up, wow so much for that subplot. The gods are unlikeable to with Odin robbing people but not in a fun anti-hero way and sleeps with underage women. Then the twist at the end is treated like a big surprise. Nothing even happens for half the book.-Shadow gets hired, Loki is recruited, Shadow is kidnapped and ends up in a frozen wasteland which he easily escapes. Also, the story makes no sense. Odin and Kali and Loki are all gods of things like violence wisdom and trickery. There is no reason they should be weak because people still are violent, tricky and smart. Sure they aren't worshiped but neither is TV, people just use it a lot so they shouldn't be weak. There would just be more gods. Thereby making the entire story pointless