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	Anansi Boys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anansi Boys is a novel by Neil Gaiman.
		Anansi Boys was published on September 20, 2005 and was released in paperback on October 1, 2006.
		Anansi Boys is the story of Charles "Fat Charlie" Nancy, a man whose ordinary life takes a weird, frightening, and often comic turn after his father suffers a fatal heart attack in a karaoke bar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anansi_Boys (457 words)

	Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman: Reviews
		With Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman's delightful, funny and affecting new novel, the bestselling author has scored the literary equivalent of a hole in one.
		Anansi Boys is one of Neil Gaiman's books for grown-ups, which means that it's a lot less ruthless than the material he produces for children.
		"Anansi Boys" is in that tradition, but I could not give it as high a mark as his earlier novels.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/gaimanneil/anansiboys (735 words)

	"Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman - Salon
		"Anansi Boys," Gaiman's latest foray into the same fictional milieu, is a more modest and also a more fully realized book.
		"Anansi Boys" is a hybrid of folk tale and farce that freely partakes of the comic wealth in each, slipping effortlessly back and forth between them.
		Anansi, by contrast, is the spirit of play, of jokes and songs and of course of stories.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2005/10/01/gaiman/index.html (722 words)

	: RevolutionSF - Anansi Boys : Review
		Anansi himself is rendered as a charismatic old guy with a twinkle in his eye and a warm heart, his sons splitting these traits up amongst themselves quite nicely, producing the warm-hearted but spineless Fat Charlie and the gleefully amoral Spider.
		Anansi's victory over Tiger can therefore be taken to symbolise Man's movement from an animalistic hunter-gatherer existence to a more sedentary life where survival became easier, freeing up time for more trivial pursuits.
		Anansi Boys is a warm and wonderful book marred only by a certain shallowness to the secondary characters, and by the well worn tendency of fantasy writers to resolve all outstanding plot difficulties using some impenetrable magical process.
	www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=3038 (837 words)

	Outside of a Cat: Anansi Boys (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Anansi Boys is just as interesting and stunning, but also a lot of fun.
		Anansi is a trickster God, and the subject of much African folklore.
		Anansi is usually represented as a spider, though he sometimes seems a lot more human, or both at the same time, as happens in folktales.
	blog.lib.umn.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /kurtis/books/2006/06/anansi_boys.html (756 words)

	Amazon.com: Anansi Boys: A Novel: Books: Neil Gaiman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Second, Anansi Boy is, at its heart a story about a dysfunctional (but very funny) family and explores how its members try to reach some accommodation with their past and their present relationships.
		In the end, the Anansi boys discover a lot more about what each of them is and wants than you think is possible at the beginning of the novel, and the evolutions they go through to realize these things are believable, funny and a little sad.
		Anansi Boys is an entertaining, clever, and often very funny novel about how ancient mythology can bleed into the "real" modern world much more easily that we are usually inclined to think.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/006051518X (2551 words)

	Neil Gaiman Anansi Boys Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		With 'Anansi Boys', Neil Gaiman digs into the complex weave of family relations and externalizes the magic that all of us feel makes our lives work.
		'Anansi Boys' is Neil Gaiman's best work to date, combining the depth of his more serious and mythic 'American Gods' with a comedic sensibility that enables him to deploy a variety of storytelling styles with a light, sure hand.
		Frothy comedy and silly supernatural slapstick are woven seamlessly around a tender and rather intense interest in the push-me-pull-you dynamics that pits fathers against sons, brothers against one another and entire clans against the world, real, imagined or a bit of both.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2005/gaiman-anansi_boys.htm (943 words)

	Anansi Boys, Author Gaiman Tries Again
		Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman’s latest novel, is in many ways a minor spinoff of his 2001 book, American Gods.
		The novel’s protagonist is Anansi’s son, Fat Charlie, who must come to grips with his father’s legacy and the brother he did not realize he had.
		Anansi Boys is probably Gaiman’s weakest novel, which means that it is still spectacularly fun and absorbing, but will not change your life or burrow into your dreams.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/2006/03/03/arts/article6.html (691 words)

	JIVEMagazine.com
		Anansi Boys is not a sequel to American Gods, but one could not exist without the other.
		Anansi Boys is about magic (the old kind that stretches back to the beginning of time), music (some of it karaoke) and spiders (who prove far more resourceful than you might expect), but most of all, it is about family.
		Anansi Boys is another in that line, only with the added bonus of our semi-hero learning that his departed dad was an African trickster god.
	www.jivemagazine.com /review.php?rid=1305 (1026 words)

	Anansi Boys \| The A.V. Club
		But the new book takes a distinctly different tone: Where American Gods was a quirky but weighty road novel, Anansi Boys is a lighter, looser, more playful fable, not quite in, but close to the mode of Gaiman's one-time collaborator Terry Pratchett.
		Like most of Gaiman's novels, Anansi Boys opens with a patsy, a slightly hapless man with a slightly unhappy life and no idea that there's a larger world outside his own awkward experience.
		Anansi Boys contains a couple of traditional-style Anansi fables, and the book itself takes a similar ambling but wry, pointed tone; like any good Anansi story, it's about cleverness, appetite, and comeuppance, and it's funny in a smart, inclusive way.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/41352/print (419 words)

	Powell's Books - Anansi Boys: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
		Anansi is the spirit of rebellion; he is able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, baffle the devil, and cheat Death himself.
		Exciting, scary, and deeply funny, Anansi Boys is a kaleidoscope journey deep into myth, a wild adventure, and a fierce and unstoppable farce, as Neil Gaiman shows us where gods come from, and how to survive your family.
		He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spirit of rebellion able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil.
	www.powells.com /biblio/006051518x (1516 words)

	Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman - Review - Boys Will Be Boys
		He was very much the comic relief in quite a serious tale, so when I realise that Gaiman’s latest was to called “Anansi Boys”, I figured that it could well be a sequel of sorts and, if it was about Anansi, it could be good for a laugh as well.
		No matter who is the character in the forefront at any given moment in time, though, “Anansi Boys” is an awful lot of fun.
		Whilst the first read of “Anansi Boys” will be the best, as you simply don’t know what to expect and, even if you think you do, you soon discover how wrong you are, it doesn’t fail to amuse on a second reading, either.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/anansi-boys-neil-gaiman/1039508 (1134 words)

	Fredericksburg.com - 'Anansi Boys' is Gaiman gold
		Their father was Anansi, the Greek spider god, who besides being the owner of every story ever told, also had a way of making everything end up in his favor.
		In "Anansi Boys," there are at least two or three other well-defined main characters whose stories all end up in the same place and are ultimately intertwined.
		"Anansi Boys" is not as dark as "American Gods," but it leaves readers with the same feeling of mysticism and the notion that maybe what they just read could be reality.
	fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2006/012006/01122006/157680 (579 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Anansi Boys / Neil Gaiman
		It seemed Gaiman was propelling himself to the top of the "most overrated" list, delivering heavily hyped event novels which sounded the Pavlovian bell of style-over-substance for an eager throng.
		Anansi Boys is a turn for the better.
		Anansi Boys follows the life of Charles Nancy, a breed of protagonist quite common to British comedy (Wodehouse in particular).
	www.sfreviews.net /anansiboys.html (872 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Anansi Boys: Books: Neil Gaiman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Neil Gaiman introduced Compe Anansi, the African spider-god and trickster, as a minor character in his last best seller, "American Gods." Although American Gods was readable, Anansi Boys is better.
		Anansi Boys will be enjoyed and praised by all NG fans - me included, but objectively it does disappoint somewhat.
		Anasi Boys is a good story, but it feels like an idea which should have made a good short story or novella has been stretched to fill a (short) novel.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Anansi-Boys-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0755305078 (1137 words)

	Book Group 5: The Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
		This month's chosen book is The Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman, which was second on the list of reader's preferences in our recent poll.
		I read Anansi Boys a couple of months ago, and was struck with Gaiman's ability to stretch traditional use of the classics in literary fiction.
		Anansi is also a story about fathers, sons, and brothers and how difficult it can be to get along even when they are so similar.
	www.booktalkforums.com /community/showthread.php?t=443 (1331 words)

	Anansi Boys: A Novel by Neil Gaiman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Anansi Boysâ shortcomings are surprising because the work is loosely related to American Gods, Gaimanâs premiere novel to date.
		Anansi Boys is the story of Fat Charlie Nancy, an unfortunate man who discovers that his recently deceased father, Mr.
		Gaimanâs writing is charming as ever here, and ironically that may be the source of his failing: heâs so clever and established itâs as if the sheer strength of his reputation is expected to shoulder the dead weight of the work, as if the sound of the sizzle can mask the stringiness of the steak.
	artvoice.com /issues/v5n24/anansi_boys (240 words)

	LitKicks: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
		Anansi Boys is a follow-up to the incredibly popular American Gods, which I have never read, although it gets recommended to me at least once every six months.
		From the beginning of Anansi Boys to its (very satisfying) conclusion, Gaiman works the storytelling with a light, engaging tone that makes the book immensely readable, even when it veers off the charts of plausability straight into the realm of fantasy (something else I'm not typically a fan of).
		Between the covers of Anansi Boys, we have a good story, likeable characters (except for the bad guys -- they're not likeable at all), a few American folktales, love, mischief, a little bit of horror, and a lot of fun.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=AnansiBoys (769 words)

	Your Mom's Basement: Review: Anansi Boys
		Anansi Boys is the story of a man called Fat Charlie, and yet it is also the story of Anansi, because as Gaiman tells us, all stories are Anansi stories*.
		That character is the aforementioned Anansi, the Spider God, the trickster, introduced in American Gods as Mr.
		Anansi Boys is scheduled for release on Tuesday, September 20 at a bookseller near you.
	www.yourmomsbasement.com /archives/2005/09/review_anansi_b_1.html (724 words)

	Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman - Official sffworld.com review
		The simplicity ends once you realize the dead man in question is Anansi, the Spider god of Africa, the archetype from which all other tricksters have been molded.
		Anansi is also a god gifted with telling stories and naming things, something he happened to steal from another ancient African god, Tiger.
		Anansi is not only the trickster god, but also in fact, the same Mr.
	www.sffworld.com /brevoff/215.html (1132 words)

	Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
		Zora Neale Hurston collected the tales of the Caribbean folk, including the trickster tales that can be traced without any difficulty back to their West African origins where they are sometimes referred to as Anansi, or spider tales, in recognition of that god.
		The purpose of trickster stories, according to folklorists, is to caution you about what might happen if you get too greedy, or are too curious, or even too arrogant, but I think they were really intended as really good just-so tales.
		Anansi Boys is simply one of the best novels I've read in a long, long time.
	greenmanreview.com /book/book_gaiman_anansiboys.html (941 words)

	Amazon.ca: Anansi Boys: Books: Neil Gaiman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		At first Charlie is overwhelmed by this new world, but he is Anansi's son and shows just as much flair for trickery as his brother.
		I love the west African Anansi stories and this was a beautiful modern mixture of those stories.
		Anansi Boys could well be the most fun you'll have reading this year!
	www.amazon.ca /Anansi-Boys-Neil-Gaiman/dp/006051518X (1196 words)

	Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman \| PopMatters Book Review
		His comics and novels (and radio plays, and films) are mind-bogglingly graceful and moving and brilliant all at the same time, and the problem is, you can only throw around phrases like "mind-bogglingly graceful and moving and brilliant" so many times before it all just starts to get old.
		Anansi Boys is the story of Fat Charlie, who happens to be the son of a god.
		And while the image Anansi Boys isn't the same as the late 1980s/early 1990s Neil, it's probably much closer to the actual Neil of today.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/a/anansi-boys.shtml (1380 words)

	OFF THE SHELF - “Anansi Boys” : Legends Magazine, Issue 155
		A really good book can easily go by in the time it takes to watch a movie based on it 2 or maybe 3 times, and you come out the other end much more satisfied than watching it portrayed shabbily on the screen.
		Anansi Boys is a brilliant modern fairy tale, told from the aspects of hard luck Charlie Nancy, aka Fat Charlie, as he discovers secrets about himself and his family that were mostly just not noticed.
		The brilliance of Anansi Boys is that it takes place here and now – hidden just between the lines and just under the surface of reality, much like Neverwhere[2] did.
	www.legendsmagazine.net /155/anansi.htm (527 words)

	floccinaucinihilipilificate: Anansi Boys
		I'm a BIG Neil Gaiman fan, and I was looking forward to this book ever since I found about it -- not that it has been hurriedly digested, sort of now waiting for more from him -- although I hear next out may be the late 2007 release of Beowulf.
		He managed to write Anansi Boys just as it would be told by Anansi himself.
		Anansi, in myth is a god a trickery and wisdom.
	www.dabydeen.com /2006/01/anansi-boys.html (436 words)

	Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
		Nancy is Anansi, and like Neil Gaiman, he is a spinner of tales.
		All is for the good as in classic Anansi story style we have a moral resolution that’s memorable and leaves us wanting more.
		Carlos Aranaga is a life-long SF connoisseur, world traveler and man of letters, born in the Andes, and who at various times has occupied temporal coordinates in Atlanta, Bangladesh, Bolivia, India, and Maryland, USA.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Nov05/anansiboys.htm (587 words)

	Anansi Boys \| Fantasybookspot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Anansi Boys returns to Gaiman in top form, with the sarcastic British wit that makes me laugh out loud.
		The truths that he needs are right there at the core of the story, drawn from the very African and Caribbean stories of the trickster god, Anansi, that inspire the tale, but also drawn from the truths about family and individuality that give this particular Anansi story a life of its own.
		So don’t go into Anansi Boys expecting to find any deep significance, but also don’t be surprised if it creeps up on you all the same.
	www.fantasybookspot.com /node/351 (743 words)

	Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god.
		Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil.
		Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
	www.neilgaiman.com /works/books/anansiboys (244 words)

	Amazon.ca: Anansi Boys: Books: Neil Gaiman,Lenny Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life is turned upside down when his father dies and a brother he never knew he had shows up at his doorstep.
		When that brother, Spider, starts to wear out his welcome, Fat Charlie learns that his father was not a man but the trickster god, Anansi, and both he and Spider have inherited some of Dad's godliness.
		Lenny Henry, however, is absolutely the perfect choice to read Anansi Boys—he not only has Gaiman's cadences and style down pat, but he also ranges his accent from British to Caribbean with ease and provides distinct and memorable voices for all of the characters.
	www.amazon.ca /Anansi-Boys-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0060823844 (1207 words)

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