For the eighth week I read American Gods by Neil Gaiman and watched the film Coraline. As
someone who really enjoys learning about different mythologies – especially
Norse mythology – I found American Gods to
be really interesting. Right from the
beginning I was super into it. Towards the middle of it the novel did start to
slow down, but I did not mind it. I thought the idea of having different
versions of the gods based on how the people who believe in them see them was
exciting to me, and to include ideas and things that many people nowadays
worship like gods such as technology be represented as deities is still very apropos.
You cannot go out anywhere and avoid seeing at least half of the people out in
public using some kind of technology no matter how unnecessary it may be. Many
people have become too dependent on the wrong things. Moving on to Coraline, it was a lot more
whimsical than American Gods but it
was super creepy. This was definitely a case of if something is too good to be
true, it probably is. I thought the movie was really well done and I did not even mind that they added another character that was not from the book.
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