Je suis très fan du travail de Neil Gaiman, et notamment de ses romans "Good omens" (co-écrit avec Terry Pratchett) et "Neverwhere". J'aime sa façon de donner vie à des icônes culturelles ou religieuses, son don pour camper des paysages et des ambiances néo-gothiques, ses personnages jamais manichéens et surtout l'angle singulier - plein d'ironie et de finesse -sous lequel il considère le monde. Pourtant, j'ai eu un peu de mal à accrocher avec "American gods", l'histoire d'un détenu fraîchement libéré qui se retrouve embarqué dans une guerre entre anciens et nouveaux dieux. J'ai même failli abandonner avant la page 100. Mais j'ai gardé la foi et continué quand même :) J'ai bien fait. Après un démarrage un peu lent à mon goût, l'histoire devient très intéressante, fourmillant de détails et d'intrigues que l'on a plaisir à noter et à tenter de décrypter avant que l'auteur en donne la solution. Finalement, j'étais navrée d'arriver au bout de mes 588 pages.

"I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkedly lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks. (...) I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. (...) I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in "War of the worlds". (...) I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead). (...) I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. (...) I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."