LOL, not really! American Gods does suggest some influence by DWJ but it's a very different text. I mean, American Gods is so concerned with Americana, and the creation of gods by people; whereas Eight Days of Luke is set within a small, English world and features the Norse pantheon alone, all of whom are thoroughly unconcerned with human belief in them except for one brief line.
Also, Eight Days of Luke is in a lot of ways a fairy tale: David frees Luke from his imprisonment by accident, and Luke helps him in return. The Norse gods start showing up (on their days, of course) and David and Mr Wednesday strike a deal: if David can keep Luke out of their clutches for eight days, Luke's free.
The cultural differences are sort of interesting, actually; I like the American Gods focus on how all America's immigrants brought their deities with them. The unselfconscious Englishness of Eight Days of Luke does fit with how only the Norse gods feature in it; Britain, and especially England, does have a close relationship with the Viking pantheon.
I suspect Mr Wednesday's name is indeed a tip of the hat, though :)
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Also, Eight Days of Luke is in a lot of ways a fairy tale: David frees Luke from his imprisonment by accident, and Luke helps him in return. The Norse gods start showing up (on their days, of course) and David and Mr Wednesday strike a deal: if David can keep Luke out of their clutches for eight days, Luke's free.
The cultural differences are sort of interesting, actually; I like the American Gods focus on how all America's immigrants brought their deities with them. The unselfconscious Englishness of Eight Days of Luke does fit with how only the Norse gods feature in it; Britain, and especially England, does have a close relationship with the Viking pantheon.
I suspect Mr Wednesday's name is indeed a tip of the hat, though :)