344: Metaphors All the Way Down

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Tape plastic wrap to your windows and wear a heavy jacket, because we’re revisiting Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel “American Gods” (and its not-a-sequel, 2005’s “Anansi Boys”) before these books make it to TV screens. We appreciate Gaiman’s writing style and the tightrope he walks to tell the story he wants to tell, but have some questions about invisible gods, tall tales, roadside landmarks, and the rules of this world.

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0:00.0	The Inconparable, number 344, March 2017.
0:10.7	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.6	I'm your host Jason Stell, and we're here.
0:14.3	It's an edition of our book club, and Scott McNulty is not here.
0:20.5	What?
0:21.2	You know what happens?
0:22.2	He's not on every book club.
0:23.3	He doesn't read all the books.
0:24.4	He only reads some of the books.
0:25.5	He doesn't remember all of the books.
0:26.7	And he certainly doesn't remember.
0:28.8	I didn't remember.
0:30.0	I got to make a confession, I didn't remember anything about these books.
0:34.8	But I did a reread.
0:36.2	And so we're here to talk about a book from
0:39.4	2001 and another one from 2005, both by Neil Gaiman, first American Gods. And then we'll also
0:48.1	talk a little bit about a Nancy Boyce, which is not really a sequel, but has a lot of connections
0:53.8	to American gods. Doing this now,
0:56.6	even though I read this book, whatever, 15 years ago, because there will be a TV series of
1:02.3	American Gods coming on the Stars Network in the U.S. and Netflix everywhere else in the world
1:07.5	in the next month or so.
1:16.5	So joining me to talk about these two books by famous comic book writer Neil Gaiman,
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