Talk:American Gods

message: I m sorry, but spoilers are a part of wikipedia. It says that in the rules that this is not an advertisement for books or movies, and it is very reasonable to have complete plots included here. So there will be no "spoiler " warnings. I guess if you don't want the plot spoiled best not to look in here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.63.157.10 (talk) 10:45, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Per WP:NDA, Wikipedia does not use spoiler tags.  Dreadstar † 04:23, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Spoilers

message: It says that the book was only done in hardcover and softcover print format, yet I have the audio book on CD, can someone find a reference online and update the article? Thanks. 71.225.125.176 15:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Media Distribution of Book

message: I have never before heard the assertion that Stardust and Sandman are intended to be part of the same world as American Gods and Anansi Boys.  I'm going to leave this tagged with citeneeded but if the user who added it or someone else doesn't point to some proof for this I'm going to remove it as original research. -RaCha'ar 00:02, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed after more than a week of waiting with the IP going on to no further activity on WP.  Feel free to re-add if you can find some assertion from Gaiman that this is true. -RaCha'ar 22:10, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: citeneeded

message: The guy who no one remembers, who tells a waiter about her futere, anyone who know who this is? Is it ever explained?
:It's emphatically not explained.  Lots of fan speculation, but Gaiman has not and likely never will say who it is. -RaCha'ar 23:07, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  re-reading the book again, NG did write about a god who had become forgotten, When the Siberians crossed the Bering land bridge and came to America, they brought their god with them and he lasted until the crow people took the forgotten god's people as slaves. If he meant that god, then it is there.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.81.76 (talk) 19:06, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The guy no one remembers

message: Do we really need this long list of every god who appears or is even briefly mentioned in the book?  It's taking up the bulk of the article now and it looks sloppy.  I vote to cut it down to major characters only. -RaCha'ar 18:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, pretty much exactly what I was thinking.  I'm not suggesting that the list be removed entirely, but it's definitely too long and trivial right now.  -RaCha'ar 22:31, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's also beginning to edge on OR, as User:GrahamHardy has been adding dozens of new entries to the list, most of which were never explicitly named and probably described in minimal detail.  --Pentasyllabic 00:11, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

text: I appreciate your hard work, but I think this is an absolute excess of information.  I believe this list should be limited to those who have major roles in the book, not every single god who is at all named or appears.  Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information and care must be taken to cover the important information without verging into trivia.  Can we work together. here to construct a list of those gods that have major roles in the book? -RaCha'ar 02:22, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Myself, I think that a list like it could be useful, but without any context or identification, a lot of these entries are not obvious.  I can remember when I finished the book and wanted to know if that dead child that the proto-humans were carrying around across the tundra was based on something, so I popped in here to check and was disappointed to find nothing, but even now, I wouldn't know which of those it would be (my suspicion is none of them, but shows how much I know about the subject) without clicking through about half to find out what they were in the first place.  Unfortunately, if you start providing long explanations of from whence the character is identified, the list starts growing out of control and you end up with a fork that ends up getting deleted, so I'm not sure what the solution would be.  A lot of Gaiman's mythology is outside of that which some of his readers might be familiar with, but I've got no idea whether this is the right place to help novices understand what he's talking about.Cool moe dee 345 19:20, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

text: I think it should be kept.  It cleared up a lot of confusing things for me.  Czolgolz (talk) 21:18, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Some of the references on the page confused me.  I went back through the book trying to figure out how I had missed Jesus as a character.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.162.43.222 (talk) 14:50, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

text:  I recently bought my second copy and during the carousel scene, Shadow has a vision of an octopus headed god, and that can only be Cthuhlu. Cthuhlu is currently trademarked, so Neil could not mention him by name.
Gaiman has indeed written various stories referencing the Cthulhu Mythos, but American Gods doesn't contain any direct reference to Cthulhu or any other Lovecraft creatures. The reference to Cthulhu does not belong on the list.ChipEverwood 20:47, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

text: The High Priest of Rl'yeh is mentioned. This is a reference to Cthulhu. Kuralyov (talk) 23:31, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Long long list

message: Peter Vasiljev 02:40, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I recently bought my second copy and during the carousel scene, Shadow has a vision of an octopus headed god, and that can only be Cthuhlu. Cthuhlu is currently trademarked, so Neil could not mention him by name.
Gaiman has indeed written various stories referencing the Cthulhu Mythos, but American Gods doesn't contain any direct reference to Cthulhu or any other Lovecraft creatures. The reference to Cthulhu does not belong on the list.ChipEverwood 20:47, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

text: The High Priest of Rl'yeh is mentioned. This is a reference to Cthulhu. Kuralyov (talk) 23:31, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cthulhu? 

message: I just read a line in the book. It says "A young girl, no older than fourteen, her hair dyed green and orange and pink, stared at them as they went by. She sat beside a dog, a mongrel, with a piece of string for a collar and a leash." Anyone else think this is a reference to Delirium?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.137.177.46 (talk) 18:11, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delirium 

message: I was thumbing through Fragile Things and something in the introduction caught me. More so for the back ground of "Pages From A Journal Found In A Shoebox Left In A Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, And Louisvile, Kentucky" where Neil writes,"I wanted to write something about identity and travel and America, like a tiny companion piece to American Gods, in which everything, including any kind of resolution, hovered just out of reach." So would that make it part of the same universe of American Gods? It's worth a thought, maybe not a mention, but a thought.--Pony English 21:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Piece of the Universe? 

message: So, what is the difference of the 12,000 word extra version to that of the retail? Pony English 07:32, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference 

message: What is the basis for listing Sam Black Crow as Morrigan?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.1.17.5 (talk) 19:06, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also Sam is Native American (Cherokee? I don't have the book handy), and Morrigan was a Celtic goddess- the ethnicities of the incarnations generally seem to follow those of their worshippers. Thee darcy (talk) 16:25, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

text: Assume nothing.  We have what we were shown and can only go on that. ~Auzemandius {talk/contrib} 16:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sam = Morrigan? 

message: :In addition to the numerous figures from real-world myths, a few characters from The Sandman and its spinoffs make brief cameos in the book.
I'm not familiar with The Sandman series, can anyone list those characters? Thanks a lot. :D --TX55<SUP>TALK</SUP> 16:33, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cameo characters 

message: Request to have American Gods added to wikipedia's "magic realism novels: american magic realism" category
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_magic_realism_novels  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stockholmcode (talk • contribs) 06:52, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, this sounds reasonable. Can you point us to a reliable source that calls American Gods an example of magical realism (as opposed to fantasy)?  LadyofShalott 15:39, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  american magical realism 

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message: Too much publishing history in the lede. Suggestions? Kortoso  (talk) 17:31, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Will edit and move details to another section.Parkwells (talk) 12:37, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lede 

message: I don't think "Shadow" Moon should be in quotes-- the book says it's on his ID and ticket, implying it's his legal name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.127.77.18 (talk) 22:17, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shadow isn't a nickname