[UA] I'm sure it's been talked to death....

[Bryant Durrell]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:23:27PM -0500, Brant Casavant wrote:
> Someone of consequence wrote:
> 
> > Cruel bastard. Why would you inflict that upon them? I mean, I like 
> > NG and all, got all the Sandman comics, thought Neverwhere wasn't bad .
> . . 
> > but that book just didn't do it for me.
> 
> Hallejuah, brother! I love Neil, but I thought _American Gods_ was crap. 
> 
> Of course, because I hated it, every person who ever wrote a review of
> the book simply has to love it. I can't find a single review anywhere
> on-line or in print that thought it was as boring and derivative as I
> did. So I guess I'm more annoyed by the fact that I seem to be one of the
> few people to find it uninspiring at best. My only argument is that in my
> opinion, it sucked.

Hey, I'm with you.  I said slightly snide things about it in my
_Summerland_ review.  I was kind of being polite.

-- 
        Bryant Durrell [] http://www.innocence.com/~durrell [] 9/11/2001
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           "Mystical explanations are considered deep.  The truth is
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