And so the story ends...

So again it happened, that a great book is finished reading and it's magic is, althought still lingering in my self, starting to fade away... It always happens with good books, you can't stop reading them, and craving to get to the end, but again, you can't stop feeling down once you've done reading them... you wish they could go on forever... like that moment of a sweet kiss, or the smell of a hot cup of chocolate.

But as everything they end... and eventhough they wait there on the shelf to be read again, and they will, it's a fact that life goes on and their magic, as great as it was, is not really a part of our "real world".

I just finished reading "American Gods", a book by Neil Gaiman. And by the feel of my words you can tell that I liked it, and I disliked the fact of being thrown away out of that magical world once I stopped reading what were the last few words. Yet I thank the chance that I had of peeking into that magical place for while it lasted.

American Gods is a must read, and to be honest, you enjoy it even more once you know something about world mithology... still, you can just go ahead and read it nonetheless. I must confess that I prepared my self for this book, and before reading it I read a lot about classic and nording mithology, and a little about world folklore, etc. Once I read those things I read couple of other unrelated books... (I guess that's when I read Borges and those guys). Still there were a lot of references that I didn't catch, but it's nice to see "familiar faces" in such odd cotexts of our real world.

What is it about?. About Gods, and what they are doing nowadays in a land where they are hardly ever remembered, and even less frequently taken seriously. The story of a regular guy that finds himself trapped in very unregular circumstances, and somehow ends up being the guy who runs errands for some Gods, and who, by the end, does quite more that his share for the divine folk.

Read it... you won't regret it... the only possible "side effect" is that you won't be able to see the world again and you used to, and magic will be in every corner wheter you like it or not.