6/7/2023 0 Comments American Gods by Neil GaimanAnd that, alone, makes American Gods-even for those who have read the book-such a fascinating new series. One would imagine that 16 years after Gaiman published his book, in a world where social media and streaming services occupy our time more than TV ever could alone, the old gods have lost. culture, have vastly different implications in 2017, when American Gods is making its way to the television screen (or computer or tablet) where Shadow first meets Media. He soon learns that Wednesday is the Norse god Odin, who is in a hidden war between his faction of old gods and the new gods.īut these themes, along with the idea of immigration and the homogenization of U.S. Its hero, Shadow Moon, is an ex-convict who finds himself in the employment of the mysterious Mr. At its core, American Gods is a road trip story through the U.S. These new gods are the likes of Media and Technology who are replacing the ancient Norse, Biblical, and West African gods. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance." These gods entered the melting pot of American society and soon, as Gaiman puts it in the book, are replaced by new gods "of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. The premise of Gaiman's novel is that when outsiders first came to America, they brought with them the ancient stories, characters, and deities from throughout global human history. Explaining American Gods\' Crazy Sex Scene.
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