American Gods was a total slog for me. I always go into a Gaiman thinking the premise sounds very intriguing, but his style just leaves me cold. I really struggled for the first 500+ pages and was ready to give up and FINALLY the last two hundred pages caught my interest, and I finished. I'm glad I'm done and I'll never read it again.

I think Gaiman may be one of those authors you need to read at the right moment in time and for me, that time has been never.