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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2744.Anansi_Boys?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Anansi Boys" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1161517306m/2744.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2744.Anansi_Boys?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Anansi Boys</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1882.Neil_Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2455219?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods, is a god of story telling. And his new novel, Anansi's Boys, is a story about a god of story telling. <br/> <br/>You've all heard me mention Neil Gaiman before. He's more popularly known as the writer of the spectacular Sandman series. He's made many forays into fiction. His children's story, Coraline, won awards. His novel, Good Omens, co-written with Terry Pratchett, is a cult favorite. And the previously mentioned novel, American Gods, is one of the most enjoyable books I've ever read. It was the story of battle between the old gods and the new ones. The new gods, the new American Gods, were tired of people still believing in the old gods, so they started killing them. Odin, along with all gods from all mythology and folklore (especially folklore) joined in this battle. But it was really a story of a regular man getting caught up in something so much bigger than he imagined. <br/> <br/>Anansi's Boys is a sort of sequel. It doesn't really deal with the same plot or characters. It's a story of a boy and his father, that just happens to take place in the same reality as the previously mentioned story. This novel is about Anansi, the great spider who was a trickster god, not an evil god, but sometimes did bad things. He tricked and stole all the stories from the Tiger. So all stories became Anansi's and he could tell such a convincing story, he could story-tell his way through life. And he lived his life and when he finally died (at least for a little while) his estranged son soon discovers that he's not the loser he always thought he was, his father wasn't the embarrassing old fool that he thought, and a sudden appearance of the brother, who wasn't the loser. <br/> <br/>Throw in a crooked investor, a murder, some ghosts, an engagement gone all wrong and a few song and dance numbers and we have ourselves a story. <br/> <br/>Oh, and plenty of talking animals. <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/151055?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>