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American Gods by Neil Gaiman
It's about the fight between the old Gods and the New Gods. The main character named Shadow is a guy just out of jail that has just lost his wife and pretty much everything he has. He's hired by an odd guy that knows too much about him. He helps this guy, who he later figures out to be the God Odin, hunt down and recruit the other old gods for a War that is coming. The old gods are various quarky colorful people that the regular people just seem to not really pay much attention.
The Old Gods say they were brought over with the immigrants and created by their beliefs and prayers and as the people died and changed their beliefs the Gods lost their power and were stranded. Some have taken jobs and are growing old and the new gods are slowly killing them off. The new Gods are beings like the TV, Internet, and the beuracrat. Cold hard beings with no real soul or personality. There is a great scene where the TV God talks to Shadow as Lucile Ball while he's watching TV and tries to show him Lucy's boobs to try to convience him not to help the old gods.
So far it's a great book.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
It's about the fight between the old Gods and the New Gods. The main character named Shadow is a guy just out of jail that has just lost his wife and pretty much everything he has. He's hired by an odd guy that knows too much about him. He helps this guy, who he later figures out to be the God Odin, hunt down and recruit the other old gods for a War that is coming. The old gods are various quarky colorful people that the regular people just seem to not really pay much attention.
The Old Gods say they were brought over with the immigrants and created by their beliefs and prayers and as the people died and changed their beliefs the Gods lost their power and were stranded. Some have taken jobs and are growing old and the new gods are slowly killing them off. The new Gods are beings like the TV, Internet, and the beuracrat. Cold hard beings with no real soul or personality. There is a great scene where the TV God talks to Shadow as Lucile Ball while he's watching TV and tries to show him Lucy's boobs to try to convience him not to help the old gods.
So far it's a great book.