Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman, Lenny Henry
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Author: Lenny Henry, Neil GaimanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Published: 2005-09-20
ISBN: 0060823844
Publisher: HarperAudio
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Book Review: A wonderful audio version of a fantastic story
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first audio book I finished in its entirety. Normally, I grow annoyed with fake accents and droning voices. This one, I couldn't put dow...take out of my ears.
There were two parts to this: first of all, Gaiman has written a wonderful, touching, kind story of brotherly (and other kinds of) love that triumphs over even the most powerful evil. The story itself is very old: Fat Charlie, your everyday kinda guy, nothing at all spectacular about him, finds out he has a brother--who is EVERYTHING spectacular, cool, smooth and destructive. Unhappy with his brother, Fat Charlie enlists the help of something powerful and malevolent against him--and soon lives to regret it very much. He is then faced with cleaning up the mess he's made--the process, which will pull him out of his safe world and make him a real man.
Gaiman's language is lovely, his metaphors are light and airy, his humor is subtle and sweet. His characters are well-written and sympathetic--you really care about Fat Charlie, Spider, Daisy, Rosie--and even Rosie's mother. Additionally, Lenny Henry does such a wonderful job with reading the book, I could almost say that this book should be *heard,* and not *read.* With his rather uncanny ability to speak with different accents, and to make a woman sound like a woman, and a man like a man, he truly breathes life into Gaiman's characters.
As for an inevitable comparison with The American Gods, this is a happier book, with a happier ending, more sympathetic characters and all-around better gods.
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