American Gods being made into series!

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I know a lot of you were trying to read it for book club and not being able to get in to it. However, it is one of my favorite books! I love mythology from all cultures and was obsessed with it for years when I was a kid. I remember the enchantment of reading the book and being excited to recognize non-Greek/Roman or even Norse Gods in there and researching the ones I didn't know yet.

tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/01/starz-developing-american-gods-series/278786/

From Neil Gaiman's FB page:
Commented Neil Gaiman, "When you create something like ‘American Gods,’ which attracts fans and obsessives and people who tattoo quotes from it on themselves or each other, and who all, tattooed or not, just care about it deeply, it's really important to pick your team carefully: you don't want to let the fans down, or the people who care and have been casting it online since the dawn of recorded history. What I love most about the team who I trust to take it out to the world, is that they are the same kind of fanatics that ’American Gods’ has attracted since the start. I haven't actually checked Bryan Fuller or Michael Green for quote tattoos, but I would not be surprised if they have them. The people at Fremantle are the kinds of people who have copies of ‘American Gods in the bottom of their backpacks after going around the world, and who press them on their friends. And the team at Starz have been quite certain that they wanted to give Shadow, Wednesday and Laura a home since they first heard that the book was out there. I can't wait to see what they do to bring the story to the widest possible audience able to cope with it."

(I cannot believe they put what I wrote in the press release. Normally someone rewrites it into Press Release Speak and then I have to explain to people that, no, I didn't actually say that at all. Not this time.)

[BlackCanary]

I enjoyed it, though I don't think I'll read it again. A series sounds interesting.

[dr.girlfriend]

I'm torn about this. I feel like with Neil Gaiman, it's not so much the plots as the language that grabs me, and it's not really the dialogue, it's the narrative language that really "sells" the magical realism. I'm not sure how well the plots and dialogue will translate to screen. I did like the "Neverwhere" radio broadcast okay, though, so maybe it'll fly.

[CheshireGrin]

I'm excited and I will definitely watch it! However, I do agree that so much of Neil Gaiman's magic is in his writing style, and it will be very difficult to translate that to television.

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