I was just thinking about buying a copy of Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Douglas Adams) and remembering how it kept jumping to my mind when I read American Gods (Neil Gaiman, review below).

Because, honestly? Very different styles, but the plots hit every key note in perfect harmony. Metaphors aside, the real reason why the core of American Gods didn’t surprise me — I’d already seen it. Instinctively, I knew Wednesday was Odin, even before I consciously realized the Wodin’s Day connection… because it was deja vu from Tea-Time.

It was like the time I was reading this historical romance, and recognizing every key point in time with the story… turns out I’d read the first, hackneyed version years earlier on Fictionpress.com, posted by the (then) amateur writer. What was most interesting were the differences… for instance, in the first version, the protagonist was blind. That part got cut.

I’m not sure what that says about us as a society.