American Gods is pretty evenly written; if it didn’t grab you in the first fifty pages or so it was probably never going to. (I say this as someone who fell in love with it and considers it among my favorite of his work.)
Personally, I disliked that trope even before I’d seen it enough times for it to seem cliche, but I count American Gods among my favorites of Gaiman’s work in spite of it.
Perhaps. It was far from being my introduction to that trope, but I found it worth reading for something other than the originality of that particular idea. Still, different people like different things in their art.
American Gods is pretty evenly written; if it didn’t grab you in the first fifty pages or so it was probably never going to. (I say this as someone who fell in love with it and considers it among my favorite of his work.)
I blame the SeinfeldIsUnfunny effect. I’ve seen GodsNeedPrayerBadly done so many other times that it seemed like a cliche.
Personally, I disliked that trope even before I’d seen it enough times for it to seem cliche, but I count American Gods among my favorites of Gaiman’s work in spite of it.
Perhaps. It was far from being my introduction to that trope, but I found it worth reading for something other than the originality of that particular idea. Still, different people like different things in their art.