American Gods

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That brings me to the philosophical underpinnings of this book. What is this book really about? Is it a postmodern book about the final, decisive victory of modernity? Is this actually a book about a paradigm shift? Gaiman has some meta passages about metaphors and such, and clearly is too clever to let himself pigeonholed by deconstructionists. Not everything in this book is what it seems to be--and I'm not even talking about the coin tricks. Yet this lack of conceptual clarity ultimately is American God's biggest failure.

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