/lit/ - Literature

>>12358392
Of his books i have only read Good Omens (which he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett) and American Gods.
>The first part of Good Omens had some hilarious moments, to the point where i burned through a lot of it quickly, even though i'm a generally slow reader, the rest of it i didn't find as good, but the relationship between Crowley and Aziraphale was still enjoyable.
>American Gods was not nearly as funny, though, plus i stopped halfway through and had to come back a few months later (to be fair, i was also pretty busy at the time), i found that the actual plot of the story didn't much interest me, but his discriptions of the protagonist Shadow's inner thoughts and day to day life to be strangely fascinating, Gaiman managed to make the guy feel like a real person with his own thoughts and opinions (though i don't doubt he shares many of these thoughts and opinions with Gaiman himself).
Overall, i think his writing can be a bit pretentious (pic related is an exaggeration of what it feels like to read his books), especially with the whole "What if mythological figures/abstract concepts existed in the real world and looked like 80s british rock stars" angle he keeps coming back to, however he is what i would call a good writer, he does not deserve to be as deified as he is, but neither do a lot of "best of all time" writers, so...