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I often see people rank American Gods by Neil Gaiman highly, but I read this book and I thought it was aweful! Seriously, the plot really has no flow in the book - everything happens just because (a sort of deus ex machina per page) with one god leading the main character haphazrdly around the country. As a horror book I think it fails, as a thriller it fails, and as a homage to various mythologies it is ok, but reading actual legends and myths might be a better approach.
Gravity's Rainbow blew me away - the wierd mixture of physics/probability theory/messed up writing and plot.. tough read tho.
Since this is philosophy - Nietzche (Beyond Good and Evil) was my eye-opener.
Been meaning to re-read the Foundation Series...
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