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I couldn't wait for my first introductory installment of the SF Book Club to arrive, and grabbed the paperbook copy I saw on the shelf of the used bookstore I frequent. Actually, I'd forgotten I'd ordered Anansi Boys, but, oh well, I'm glad I'll have it in hardcover as well.
Anansi Boys, like American Gods, is a fun puzzle. There aren't as many mysteries as in American Gods, which plays out like an onion, (see Shrek) but that's okay: Anansi Boys is more of a romp, a roll in the hay with a trickster god. There is more at stake than the hero's desire for a normal life: there's a plot afoot by an opposing god to take back all the stories in the world and make them back into unhappy, warlike stories, instead of the thinking man stories Anansi the Spider god has turned them into.
Neil Gaiman is a master storyteller. It's no wonder he wrote a story involving Anansi, the trickster storytelling spider-god. And it's refreshing that Gaiman chose a god/pantheon that isn't your average Nordic or Greek reinterpretation. It's all African/Caribbean gods here.
(TBC later - fell asleep on the couch)
Anansi Boys, like American Gods, is a fun puzzle. There aren't as many mysteries as in American Gods, which plays out like an onion, (see Shrek) but that's okay: Anansi Boys is more of a romp, a roll in the hay with a trickster god. There is more at stake than the hero's desire for a normal life: there's a plot afoot by an opposing god to take back all the stories in the world and make them back into unhappy, warlike stories, instead of the thinking man stories Anansi the Spider god has turned them into.
Neil Gaiman is a master storyteller. It's no wonder he wrote a story involving Anansi, the trickster storytelling spider-god. And it's refreshing that Gaiman chose a god/pantheon that isn't your average Nordic or Greek reinterpretation. It's all African/Caribbean gods here.
(TBC later - fell asleep on the couch)
