Anansi Boys
Mar. 2nd, 2006 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orikesI just finished reading Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. I absolutely loved it. It made me laugh out loud at several points. Here's one particular line that got me:
(If anyone has met Lorelei, they'd know exactly what he's talking about. She possesses that quality. And at two and a half!)
I think I liked it better than American Gods, but then there parts of that book where I thought I was missing something. As if my lack of understanding of mythology and theology was limiting my grasp of the book to a minor degree. I never got that in Anansi Boys.
Like quite a few books, I kept picturing it as if it were being made into a movie. I think I'd cast Mos Def as Fat Charlie and Spider. Maybe Taye Diggs, but I'm not sure how well he'd do with this type of material.
Eitherway, I recommend it. Cori, you can borrow it from me, but I promised it to TJ first. :)
His name is Marcus; he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.
(If anyone has met Lorelei, they'd know exactly what he's talking about. She possesses that quality. And at two and a half!)
I think I liked it better than American Gods, but then there parts of that book where I thought I was missing something. As if my lack of understanding of mythology and theology was limiting my grasp of the book to a minor degree. I never got that in Anansi Boys.
Like quite a few books, I kept picturing it as if it were being made into a movie. I think I'd cast Mos Def as Fat Charlie and Spider. Maybe Taye Diggs, but I'm not sure how well he'd do with this type of material.
Eitherway, I recommend it. Cori, you can borrow it from me, but I promised it to TJ first. :)
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Date: 2006-03-03 01:04 am (UTC)i have your others to read first anyhow. i'm eager to read anasi boys though. thanks in advance. :)
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Date: 2006-03-03 06:19 am (UTC)... and if you want to see it as a movie, start learning Polish and forget that not all the characters are caucasian:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/officialgaiman/263213.html
If Neil's links to the trailer don't work, see the comments below for alternates -- also translations from Polish. :)
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Date: 2006-03-03 06:25 am (UTC)http://syndicated.livejournal.com/officialgaiman/263141.html?style=mine
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Date: 2006-03-03 03:28 pm (UTC)I would love to see a movie of it. I think of the three Neil Gaiman books I've read, it would translate the best. I've read Neverwhere, American Gods, and now Anansi Boys. Oh.. and I've read the Sandman series, thanks to Scott (who happens to be Cori's hubby).
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Date: 2006-03-03 05:57 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I was downright embarassed when I watched A Short Film About John Bolton. Sooo tedious.
... *blinks at Gaiman on IMDB* He wrote the English adaptation of Mononoke? And one of my fave B5 eps? Cool!
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Date: 2006-03-03 07:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-06 06:02 pm (UTC)It's a major challenge to get your skin THAT white even though you're wearing black clothes. :D At least the wig covered up my back, so I didn't have to paint that (and by extension, the driver's seat of my car...)
See more Gaiman-related costumes at