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  • degbert Rank: Colonel 21st Dec 2006

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    Good Points: A very funny, enjoyable and bizarre tale.


    Bad Points: Verges on a bit silly at times, and it might leave some behind.


    General comments: Another reviewer rather wrote this off as a dull affair, citing the characters as somewhat uni-dimensional. I disagree. I fancy that allowing one's own imagination to flex its muscles helps the reader get the most out of this book. Neil Gaiman conjours up some very colourful situations and predicaments, not least for his hapless hero Charlie, and he is equally adept at providing some great scenes (and one-liners) to the mischievous and pardonably nasty Spider.

    The supporting cast, including Rosie and family, Charlie's unpleasant boss et al are no more unbelievable than the plot of Anansi Boys itself, and add enough life and dimension to carry the whole thing jauntily along.

    I'm not done with it yet, but it's holding my interest, which this genre tends not to manage for me normally. Not bad at all, and certainly worthy of more than 5 out of 10.

  • Revvy45 Rank: Lance Corporal 12th Oct 2005

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    Anansi boys is Neil Gaiman's take on the African trickster hero Anansi. Fat Charlie is the son of embarrassing father, Mr A. Nancy, who humiliates him and forces him to run away to London from Florida.
    When his father dies, Fat Charlie learns his father was Anansi, and that he had a previously undiscovered brother. Things get worse when the timid Charlie summons his brother, Spider, who promptly seduces Charlie's finacee Rosie, and causes him to be framed for embezzlement.
    Gaiman might be bett ...

  • Harriet Klausner 11th Jul 2005

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    Anansi Boys
    Neil Gaiman
    Morrow, Sep 2005, $26.95
    ISBN: 006051518X

    The West African spider-trickster god Anansi in an incarnation as Mr. Nancy has died and was buried in Florida. He left behind an adult son Fat Charlie in England. Ironically Charlie is not overweight but instead is a half god who lost part of himself due to a grudge and a curse. His other part is Charlie's unknown brother Spider.

    Spider tricks Tiger and ends up gaining control of all the stories in the world as well a ...