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I went to the bookstore today, for no real reason, and there were lots of copies of The Ocean at the End of the Lane on display - more than the last time; I think the book must have moved up a few spots on some bestseller list or other. Anyway, what this meant was that there were all these people asking about the book who clearly had no idea who Neil Gaiman was; I kept overhearing them as I was browsing. I was more entertained than I probably ought to have been by listening to one of the booksellers trying to explain Neil Gaiman to people. (Though out of the many ways I might have tried to describe American Gods, I don't think I would have started with "it's kind of about America's religious history...")