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Having been extraordinarily busy at work, I took a few days off and popped into a bookstore looking for a fun vacation read. When I saw Neil Gaiman’s American Gods proudly displayed on the shelf with its awesome pulp throwback cover, I felt compelled to pick it up. I went to a bar in the afternoon, ordered a Kenzinger, and sat down with the book. I hoped I would break a run of bad books I’d read recently. American Gods was better than most of them, and maybe my reading of it