I am still working on Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. I had to put it aside to take care of some family business, but I am going to add your other recommendations to my book list. AG is terrific and I like the style of Gaiman’s writing. It is too bad more of the politicians are not as educated as the people on this forum. The country would be in better shape.
BTW, should we start a poll on how long the Blue Team will blame Bush for everything that goes wrong, even when he did not touch it? I predict, throughout his entire (1) term.