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[lampbane]

I kind of said this on Twitter already, but I can elaborate better here:

American Gods is a terrible choice for the One Book, One Twitter project. Now, I didn't even hear about this until... well, today, but choosing American Gods is just so groan-worthy

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[grysar]

So do hard-core Gaimen fans feel extra sensitive about American Gods and thus promote it all the harder? I mean it's just bizarre.

[lampbane]

I think they don't even realize people might not like it, or as I said, they figure that if you don't like it, something is wrong with you, and not the book.

[grysar]

I wonder why it is so prominent in the examples you mentioned. It's not like it's his best known work. I guess because of length.

[lampbane]

What would you consider his best known work? Stardust or Coraline because of the movies? The Graveyard Book because it won the Newbery Award? (I know it's not Sandman, because there are way too many people who don't even realize he writes comics too.)