Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Off-the-wall characters, situations, and turns of phrase. Great fun.
I'm getting addicted to his style.
A few samples --
p. 55 Impossible things happen. When they do happen, most people jsut deal with it.
p 75 ...he had the kind of hangover that an Old Testament God might have smitten the Midianites with...
p. 151 Human eyes (unlike say, a cat's eyes, of an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time.
p. 206 Ah well, she thought. Being dead is probably just like everything else in life: you pic some of it up as you go along, and you just make up the rest.
p. 220 Maeve Livingstone had expected death to be a number of things, but irritating had never been on e of them.
p. 223 Death should be like the kind of all-expenses included luxury vacation where they give you a folder at the start filled with tickets, discount vouchers, schedules, and several phone numbers to ring if you get into trouble.
p. 247 There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people.
p. 292 If you don't die now and again, people start takin' you for granted.
p. 321 He sang of names and words, of the building blocks beneath the real, the worlds that make worlds, the truths beneath the way things are; he sang of appropriate ends and just conclusions of those who would have hurt him and his. He sang the world.
p.333 ... then Marcus taught the mermaid the words to the Flintstones theme song.




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