The Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman

"I love Gaiman, Neil Gaiman, and I picked up his Sandman, that was an epic. And I read American Gods because - well, I first read Neverwhere, and then American Gods, because it was like, wow, he's branching onto actual books.

So I saw Anansi Boys, like, it was a - I was working at Borders at the time, and it was on display, so I just decided to pick it up. A lot of things about like, you know, the comic writers I like is that they take these cliché characters and make like deep, rich backgrounds of them. So I love the characterization in the book.

Neil Gaiman has this whimsical style, and he'll be writing along and all of a sudden a joke will pop up. You don't realize it, so you just laugh. It just comes out of nowhere. It was just a very amusing, well-done read, and he goes into a lot of philosophy, like old gods and religion, which I kind of like, so it was a good book.

Everybody that was into Gaiman's Sandman, follows - fans of Gaiman, yeah. People that like mysteries, you know. It was a good plot twist. People that are into mythology, definitely; he mines it very richly. And fans of Douglas Adams and maybe Terry Pratchett would definitely be into Neil Gaiman's work.

I would give this five stars. It's better than American Gods. It flowed so well, I read it in like four hours in one night, you know, and it kept me engrossed the whole way."

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