Sorry, but this book was archived before I had the chance to read and review it. I regularly check archive dates, and this one had "archive date not set" last time I looked.

Stan doesn't die, but he certainly lives his lives with gusto. I enjoyed how he handled his long and never-ending life.

Although this is certainly not the first book about an immortal's long and storied life, it was highly entertaining and a quick read. The earlier portions of the book were more enjoyable than the later, but it held my interest. The sometimes anachronistic language is explained by the fact that the narrator is telling his story to someone in the present day, as in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. While we never see any signs of great introspection in the course of Stan's story ("why am I still here?"), his getting on with things and the characters he encounters are good fun. Many thanks to Guernica Editions and NetGalley for the opportunity to read Call Me Stan.

The idea of the immortal crossing the ages and coming into contact with historical reality, becoming the originator and creator of myths, is not new. In this case, the immortal on duty is presented as the source of the myth of the wandering Jew, as he was born in the land of the Hittites.
The whole first part of the book, as in general the 'historical' sections, is very enjoyable, especially the events leading to the creation of the Norse gods Odin and Thor.
To compensate (badly) for this excellent narration, there are the present-day interludes, which seem more like filler, a poor attempt to stitch the episodes together, than anything else.
In particular the reappearance as an immortal of a Trojan princess that was better left dead, since her return, in the eyes of the reader, should have led to some deepening, but instead is left there, useless and hanging.
Even the ending is a bit predictable, since it winks at a possible second volume (no, please, no).