What attracted you to the novel American Gods?

The conflict and struggle between gods at the end of the story is the real narrative axis of this work, and it can even be said that the shadow of the protagonist is only a bystander most of the time. Since it is a war, there are naturally two opposing sides. American gods can be roughly divided into two factions: one is the so-called "old gods", most of which were brought to the New World by immigrants, and their background is often closely related to religious ceremonies, natural laws and human birth, illness and death; The other school is the "Neo-God School", branded with two words: "Modern". They are closely related to the development of science and technology after the independence of the United States, such as the god of credit cards, the god of highways, the god of media, or the so-called "black hat party", which all represent the new beliefs of the American people in modern society. This belief is different from the religious significance when facing old gods, but lies between the media god and the shadow. People offered sacrifices to me. ""What did they offer? " The shadow asked, "In most cases, this is their time," and Lucy said that sometimes it is them. "