American Gods

[shoreline99]

Anyone else read the Neil Gaiman book?

Watching the series on STARZ? If not, you should be.

[VDB]

The wife and I are watching it (she's a Gaiman fan). It's weird but well done.

[mistercharlie]

I love the book, but gave up on the series two episodes in. It just wasn't for me.

The follow-up book, The Anasi Boys, is really good too.

[ytowndan]

The book has been on my to-read list forever, but I never seem to get around to it.

As far as the show goes, I haven't watched it yet, but I saw that Ian McShane is in it...I loved that guy in Deadwood, so I might have to check it out.

[natronzero]

I love the book. Read it the old-fashioned way a few years ago and listened to the 10th Anniversary version of the audiobook maybe a year ago, right after they started hyping the upcoming series, to get refamiliarized. I highly recommend the audiobook. The voices are great, and Neil Gaiman does the intro and some of the interstitial chapters (the Coming To America stuff).

I've only seen the first four episodes, but I've been pretty entertained with the series so far. It's been pretty faithful to the book - somewhat condensed, especially the first couple episodes, but that's to be expected when adapting a book like that. And there's been some stuff that's not in the book, but suits the series well, so i'm into it. Gotta expect that as well. I think the casting has been pretty fucking great on every character so far.