The Gentlemen's Club Book Club 2 - The Final 3

OldGoat

The central concept is that gods and mythological creatures exist because people believe in them. Immigrants to the United States brought dwarves, elves, leprechauns, and other spirits and gods with them, but their power is diminished as people's beliefs wane. New gods have arisen, reflecting America's obsessions with media, celebrity, technology, and illegal drugs, among others.

More information and synopsis here.
NOTE: Contains massive amounts of Spoilers.

El Guapo!

I suggested this one

From Wikipedia;

When the United States' National Security Agency's code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious and ingeniously complex code called Digital Fortress that it cannot break, the agency calls in Susan Fletcher, a brilliant mathematician and their head cryptographer, to crack it. Fletcher discovers that the code, which is written in Japanese, is a viral program designed to break down the NSA's firewall and encryption systems, allowing anyone anywhere to access all of the NSA's files. She also discovers that it was written by Ensei Tankado, a former NSA employee who became displeased with the NSA's intrusion into people's private lives. Tankado, essentially holding the NDS hostage, intends to auction the code's algorithm on his website, and release it for free if he dies, threatening to cripple U.S. intelligence. Fletcher, along with her fiancé, David Becker, a skilled linguist with eidetic memory, are thrust into a global chase that takes them from Washington, DC to the towers of Tokyo to the cathedrals of Seville, Spain, where they must find a way to stop the spread of the code.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Fortress

Dr Galen

As we had a deadlocked vote on the last go, here as suggested is a new poll with the top 3 options with a little blurb on each book to help you make your mind up!

Dr Galen

Quick synopsis from Wikipedia

Shantaram is a 2003 roman à clef written by Gregory David Roberts, a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict who escaped from Pentridge Prison and fled to India where he lived for 10 years.

Shantaram is a novel influenced by real events in the life of the author, Australian Gregory David Roberts, filled with mostly fictional adventures. In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years' imprisonment in Australia after being convicted of a series of armed robberies of building society branches, credit unions, and shops, which he had committed to feed a heroin addiction after his marriage ended and he lost his daughter. In July 1980, he escaped from Victoria’s Pentridge Prison in broad daylight, thereby becoming one of Australia's most wanted men for the next ten years.

LostinBlanch

Heh heh heh. Deadlocked again.

nkay1985

LostinBlanch wrote: »

Heh heh heh. Deadlocked again.

Brilliant! We'll have to flip a fúcking coin next!

Keano

nkay1985 wrote: »

Brilliant! We'll have to flip a fúcking coin next!

Nah. It's got to be a game of rock paper scissors

LightningBolt

I went with American Gods. Seems interesting, I've read Digital Fortress. It's the usual Dan Brown novel format.

nkay1985

When does this poll expire?

r3nu4l

I've started rereading American Gods in anticipation that it will win

I should close the poll shouldn't I?

Don't know when it expires to be honest, I'm not running the club

nkay1985

r3nu4l wrote: »

I've started rereading American Gods in anticipation that it will win

I should close the poll shouldn't I?

Don't know when it expires to be honest, I'm not running the club

Just ordered it myself. Decided it'd be worth a read even if it didn't win the vote.

Dr Galen

snap

I bought it at the weekend and am really liking it so far.

How about Friday for a cutoff point? any objections? Trout?

Keano

r3nu4l wrote: »

I've started rereading American Gods in anticipation that it will win

I should close the poll shouldn't I?

Don't know when it expires to be honest, I'm not running the club

Epic fail on my behalf! I started reading Shantaram as I thought it was going to win the first poll

r3nu4l

Keano A Legend wrote: »

Epic fail on my behalf! I started reading Shantaram as I thought it was going to win the first poll

Ah well American Gods hasn't won yet so I could be joining you in Fail land It is a good book though and I'm happy to reread it.

Dr Galen

right so

i think the votes are in. I'll lock this now, I think we can say that it's American Gods next