Anansi Boys

Hardcover, 336 pages

English language

Published September 2005 by William Morrow.

ISBN:
978-0-06-051518-8
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OCLC Number:
1401566996
ISFDB ID:
177551

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5 stars (1 review)

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

When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Far 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 …

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Fat Charlie is more funny than expected

5 stars

Fat Charlie has a comfortable life in London and a lovely fiancée whose mother is hell on Earth. Fat Charlie cannot say his life is everything he has ever dreamt of, but when his father dies and he learns he is the son of a god and that he has a brother, the life he knows and Rosie are gone and Fat Charlie wants it back.

This book was a brilliant surprise. Whether you like or do not like American Gods, give this a try because there is nothing in common between the two except that there are gods in it. Fat Charlie, Spider, Rosie, Rosie's mother and Daisy are characters that we easily care about but I wasn't expecting the humour. This book is way funnier than it should be because it is beautifuly written, the characters and story evolve in a very satisfying way and it even has …

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Fathers and sons in fiction
  • Brothers
  • Anansi (Legendary character)
  • Brothers in fiction
  • Fathers and sons
  • Adventure stories
  • Fiction, action & adventure
  • Fiction, fantasy, contemporary
  • Fiction, humorous
  • Brothers, fiction
  • Fathers and sons, fiction