Year of Gaiman | ANANSI BOYS

[@grff_]

This is my favorite Gaiman! I love neil's humor and a more compact story w different types of characters whose paths all end up crossing and needing one another. I think his writing really shines in this one. Only Ocean was close to being just as good in my opinion, which is funny because they're both wildly different

[@arlissbunny]

I love that The Year of Gaiman got me to go back and reread all these books, Anansi Boys in particular. Thank you!! BTW - that sweater is perfect for this video!!! Chef’s kiss!

[@LienesLibrary]

Haha thank you for noticing 😋

[@laurablakeauthor]

Loved Anansi Boys so much when I read it. The humor hit all the right notes for me. I agree. American Gods is definitely the more impressive book but I loved the Anansi Boys taught me about a religion / deity that (even though he is in AG) we get more background to him in AB. Both are highly enjoyable but I am grabbing AB when I want something to make me laugh.

[@maria83maria]

Anansi boys was fun!!! I agree, if you didn't liked American gods meandering, read Anansi boys

[@majorgrubert5887]

Oh weird I just listen to this and I really like Neil’s narration 🎉 but my favorite Neil story is, Neverwhere! Totes meh goats! It’s a fantastic story! 😮😊

[@samm8190]

This is my last Gaiman adult novel to read. I kind of don’t want to read for then I will have no more Gaiman.

[@LienesLibrary]

You can just reread them all!

[@Geekus.Girlus]

I remember rushing out to pick up American Gods when it first came out, but it is far from my favorite work from him. I loved Anansi Boys much more.

[@bexencr]

Great analysis, as usual, about a book that I don't really remember, I just know that I enjoyed but not that much as American Gods, so yeah, also not my favorite Gaiman but still a good one.

[@Olphas]

It has been ages since I read both American Gods and Anansi Boys and while I don't really remember why, I do remember that I liked Anansi Boys more. I should do a re-read to see if that is still true.

[@LienesLibrary]

Would be interesting to see if it changed

[@paultaylor9477]

I do love this book but this is also formula Gaiman. Not that much different from Neverwhere in broad strokes.

[@LienesLibrary]

Except that I personally think it’s way better than Neverwhere 🙃

[@MichaelMaxwell747]

The captions could be problematic.

[@LienesLibrary]

I was so confused but then I checked and oh my…let’s see what we can do about that 🫠

[@MichaelMaxwell747]

@@LienesLibrary Sorry for the confusion but pointing it out more directly would have also been problematic!

[@LienesLibrary]

@@MichaelMaxwell747 no I get it thank you for the heads up!