My vacation from posting has gone on far too long. I have been working on many many items but I haven't been able to finish any. I'm glad to say that my drought has come to an end. I have managed to finish an item, a book, and it was really quite good. The book i'm talking about is Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. This is the second book I have read by him and I am growing quite fond of his writing style. He writing has a different feel than his other mediums, namely movies (Coraline), comics (The Sandman), and TV episodes (Dr. Who).
It is said that all the stories once belonged to Tiger but Anansi tricked him and now all stories belong to Spider. Anansi boys is a story about Anansi, well about his children to be specific. The main character of the story is a man named Charlie but due to an embarrassing father has been nicknamed Fat Charlie. Fat Charlie discovers that his father is actually Anansi the spider of folk tales. In his special and creative way Gaiman takes Fat Charlie from being a boring accountant to being the true son of a folk legend.
Anansi Boys is similar in many ways to American Gods. There is a very neat blend of every day life and myth or folk lore. In both books the main characters discover that there is more to them than they thought. Both stories deal with ghosts or as they call them in this book Duppies.
There is a noticeable progression in Gaiman's storytelling ability between his first and second book. Anansi boys is a much more full and complete book than American gods. I'm excited to delve into some of his other works. Maybe I will read Coraline next as it fits in with the spooky Halloween season.
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