According to the editorial reviews, American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet. If that's the case, I'd hate to have to read any of his other books.I had had such high hopes for it, as it's come highly recommended to me by just about everybody, but was very disappointed. It was boring and difficult to get through. If all of Neil Gaiman's books are like this, I don't think I'll be reading any more of them.