First Blog Post!

So, this will mark my first blog post for AP Lit. The thing that strikes me the most as something to blog about is my summer reading book of American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Going into reading the book, I had heard many good reviews of Gaiman and his writing styles and that American Gods was particularly good. I however, do not feel this way about the book. Honestly, I tried really hard to like it. I really wanted to, it seemed like an awesome story and was a really interesting concept yet no matter how hard I tried to enjoy it, I just couldnt.

I am not entirely sure why I was unable to really enjoy this book like I expected I would, but I do know that a good part of that reason is Shadow.

I hate Shadow. I tried and tried to like him. I gave him second chance after second chance to do something that I could relate to him about, or in all reality to do anything. But...he didnt. I hate Shadow.

Shadow is a character that is really cool, I was excited to have him in the story, and I sat eagerly reading waiting for him to develop. Unfortunately this didnt happen. Shadow stayed static, passive, and emotionless. Nothing seemed to make him have true feeling or to really care about anything. He was going through a world with ridiculous things going on and he just silently excepted them and went on. Shadow was a shadow of the person I was expecting him to be.

Bad pun, I know.

All jokes aside, I really did want to like this book, I wanted to be impressed by Gaiman, and I wanted to love his writing like so many others. I couldnt though. I'm thinking though that I may give American Gods a second read at some point, and maybe then I will grow to like it.