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  • I haven't remembered to put my library checkouts on the list as of yet, but Anansi Boys was one of them. I enjoyed this book immensely. I actually read this one before American Gods, but it's okay, because they stand alone. It's an interesting way to get a little introduction to the mythology that i ... Continue

    I haven't remembered to put my library checkouts on the list as of yet, but Anansi Boys was one of them. I enjoyed this book immensely. I actually read this one before American Gods, but it's okay, because they stand alone. It's an interesting way to get a little introduction to the mythology that isn't the classic mythology that they bore you to tears with in the US. If Gaiman created the mythology curriculum here it would be so much more interesting!

    

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  • a great action packed read

  • It was like an action movie and the characters were great. My favorite part was the personification of the animal gods and such.

    

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  • A new twist on African Folklore

  • I thought Gaiman's American Gods was a better story within the same vein. However, if you know a bit about African folklore or are interesting in it, this book has an "inventive" take on them and was entertaining.

    

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  • Not thrilled

  • I did finish this book but am sad to say that I was a little disappointed. His writing style just didn't grab me like I was hoping it would. I may try another of his books in the future, but I have a LONG list before that.

    

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  • Very loose sequel to "American Gods". Can be read all by itself.

    

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  • Exhilirating!

    

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• ― Ramil said on Mar 13, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.

Anansi Boys
God is dead. Meet the kids.

When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.

Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.

Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.

Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."

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