Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Reading Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman was awesome amazing. :) I wish I had enough time to finish it without killing myself because of working too much. Neil Gaiman can write really, really well from what I have read so far. I have only read half of the book and it is amazing! His characters are so thought out, but he only tells us enough to get the gist of their nature and leaves the rest in mystery for us the figure out. He doesn't even describe them that much just gives you an overview and their names. It took me a while to figure out that the main characters in the book were black. I was 30 pages in and I found myself wondering about the characters. I was thinking he really didn't give us that much information. I finally decided to look up Anansi online because Mrs. Higgler told Fat Charlie that he was a god's son. I found out that name Anansi originates from West African folklore and is also known as the spider-god. When I first started reading the book I was a little confused because it was hard for me to understand what he was talking about. It starts off with Fat Charlie's dad in a bar singing karaoke songs. Then jumps over to Fat Charlie's life with Rosie talking about getting married. I soon figures it out and had my “ah ha” moment. It's funny how the brothers are nothing alike. Spider gets all the awesome powers and gets to do whatever he wants, when Fat Charlie is the one who has to work hard, not embarrass himself, and is more of a gentleman than his brother. Charlie has been with his fiancee for six months, which doesn't really seem that long for dating someone and becoming fiancees. The fact that Spider shows up in Fat Charlie's life and after two dates with her he cons Rosie to have sex with him, while he is disguised as Fat Charlie. That is just hilarious. I feel so sorry for Fat Charlie, but I am at the part where he is trying to fix everything. The part I like most about the book is the back story about the African god Anansi. I guess I am just a sucker for mythology. The talking to spiders is just an awesome idea. When Mrs. Higgler tells Fat Charlie that he has a brother he never knew and told him to talk to a spider to get a message to him was really funny. I thought she was kidding at first, maybe she was drunk or something, but it actually worked. Overall, I can't wait to finish this book to see how it ends. The fact that I can't tell what is going to happen next is awesome because I love that in a book.