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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9519756" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I like American Gods and a lot of his other work, but I agree that there's always been something a little bit hollow in much of his writing.  Like I can see the prestidigitation a little too well and there's a lot of surface cleverness alluding to deeper meaning but that deeper meaning mostly isn't present. Some of the biggest flaws in American Gods I think derived from hubris and insufficient familiarity with the subject matter.  As an example, though the show was also flawed and went badly off the rails after season 1, the choice by the show creators to foreground race with Shadow was a smarter one than Gaiman's making him racially ambiguous, and more true to American cultural realities and history.</blockquote>