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One of fiction's most audaciously original talents,
Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.
Anansi Boys
God is dead. Meet the kids.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.
Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful
New York Times bestseller,
American Gods, the incomparable
Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
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Anansi Boys
God is dead. Meet the kids.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.
Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful
New York Times bestseller,
American Gods, the incomparable
Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
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Very Charming Comedic Novel by Gaiman.......2007-10-07
Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite fantasy writers, and ANANSI BOYS didn't disappoint me. This is a very entertaining novel.
ANANSI BOYS is a very funny and original story about a man named Fat Charlie, who suddenly learns that he is the son of the trickster God Anansi. Fat Charlie also discovers that he has a long lost brother name Spider, who has decided to re-enter his life and turn it upside down.
Gaiman has a lovely writing style that incorporates a lot of gentle, whimsical humor. It's hard to describe, but it makes his novels a pleasure to read. This is a comic novel, so many of the characters border on caricature, but Gaiman does a good job of making them human and believable for the most part.
I wouldn't say ANANSI BOYS is a great Gaiman novel -- I think NEVERWHERE, STARDUST, AND CORALINE are better works -- but it's a very good one and I had a lot fun reading it. Highly recommended for fans of comedic fantasy.
So fun!.......2007-09-24
Rather an adult version of Neil Gaiman's book. As always, his books are great. I would rate this book No.2 among his books with Stardust as no.1 so far for me although I'm now starting to read his neverwhere which is really supposed to be great.
On Comparing One Book to Another.......2007-07-28
I'll actually be working through this book in a discussion group, but I couldn't wait that long after I received it.
Read the whole thing in one sitting. Good stuff, looking forward to the re-read when the class starts up.
Without talking about the book, per se, I'd like to take a quick second to address the "It's not really like American Gods" and "It's more like {insert other book name here}" kind of comments. It is certainly not, word for word, the same as any other of his books, or of any other books of which I am aware of. It is certainly not of the exact tone and timbre, of the exact hue and saturation, as any other book. It is, however, remarkably evident that it is done in the style of Neil Gaiman, which, considering he is the author, is a Good Thing. Apparently, the quality of authors and of books is such these days that one comes to expect formulaic sequels and series. Those can be quite fun, but one must not forget that there are at least a handful of authors producing excellent, unrelated work - or, at the least, pieces that may have bumped into each other once or twice, perhaps in a dark alley, but just as nearly as likely as in a white marble amphitheater with a silvery reflecting pool and the soft sounds of a fountain or waterfall or three.
A great and very fun read.......2007-07-20
No need to recap what it is all about or the other things that Neil has managed to crank out these past few years as the others have already done an outstanding job at doing that.
The book takes you out to the edges of a giant spider web and slowly draws you in as the characters run about and find themselves drawn to the center, the heart of the thing if you will.
The characters are very well developed and done so with a minimum amount of words used to do so. The story goes from sad to outrageous to absolutely adorable in less than 400 pages.
Take a step into another world that is not quite like our own where mortals, gods, and other things live, play, and sometimes compete. Just be sure to do it with a song in your heart and rhythm in your step.
I Will Read it Again...and Again..........2007-07-10
Neil Gaiman was born 3000 years past his time. There was a point in history when people dug deep down into themselves and pull out a story so fantastic that people begged for its telling every night. These imagineers were a rare breed, and the best stories even rarer. Apparently, Neil is a reincarnation, or at least a medium, of such a dreamer. All of his stories are so original, so unpredictable, and so memorable that I continue to think about them long after the book has been read. Few books tickle my imagination and haunt my memory like Gaiman novels.
Anansi Boys is not like any other book, not even like another Gaiman novel. You can tell it was written by Gaiman, but it is not comparable to anything else--it stands alone. The story made me laugh out loud, squirm in discomfort, and gasp in delighted suprise. It'll twist on you, it'll trick you, but you won't let go until "The End".
By the way, I also listened to it on CD from my library, and that is an experience in itself. Henry Lenny's bass voice and masterful dynamics made a long drive seem shorter, and really brought out the sexiness of Spider and the humor embedded in the story.
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Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney never solved the disappearance of Anna Maria Montoya 11 years ago. Then her remains are discovered in the ruins of an abandoned fruit stand in Lincoln County, along with the charred corpse of John Humphrey, whose killer set the fire that revealed Montoya's final resting place. The deputy sheriff investigating Humphrey's murder is Clayton Istee, the estranged son Kerney only recently learned he had. Meanwhile Kerney investigates Montoya's possible ties to a modeling agency that may be a front for a prostitution ring catering to VIPs, Istee focuses on the connection between his murder victim and an illegal gambling operation in rural southern New Mexico. By the time the author ties the parallel but seemingly unrelated investigations together in this intricately plotted thriller, the two lawmen--father and son--have begun to develop a personal as well as a professional relationship, which will likely flower in future outings in this popular series. --Jane Adams
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When a fire in an abandoned fruit stand in rural Lincoln County reveals the murdered body of a woman gone missing from Santa Fe years ago, Police Chief Kevin Kerney finds himself cooperating with his estranged son, a man he hardly knows, Deputy Sheriff Clayton Istee. While Kerney digs into the woman's past, hoping to find clues that will lead to a credible suspect, Clayton must unravel two more homicides that seem on the surface totally unrelated.
As Kerney chases down clues that raise questions about the legitimacy of a highly regarded modeling and talent agency, Clayton works to discover the identity of a murder suspect alleged to have ties to prostitution and illegal gambling.
Set against the backdrop of the high mountains of southern New Mexico, where gambling is big business and private sexual encounters for VIPs can discreetly be arranged, Kerney and Clayton must go up against rich and politically powerful opponents who are willing to protect their reputations at all costs.
The Big Gamble is a multilayered, adrenaline-pumped novel of crime and punishment set against the beauty and pristine majesty of one of our country's most magnificent landscapes-and a solid addition to a series that continues to gain legions of devoted readers.
"McGarrity has a cunning mind for crime fiction." (The New York Times Book Review)
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WHOSE YOUR DADDY...........2007-08-23
If you are a fan of Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn novels which regularly serve up a cocktail of assertive storytelling, unusual mysteries, wonderful atmospheric descriptions of Southwestern geography, and accurate portrayals of Native American culture, this offering by Michael McGarrity will not slake your thirst.
Sure, The Big Gamble is set in New Mexico and one of the two protagonists is a Mescalero Apache Deputy Sheriff, but that is about as "Native American" as the story gets. The two protagonists have recently learned that they are father and son, and go to great lengths to avoid communicating with each other as they each investigates one part of the mystery surrounding to discovery of two dead bodies that were disposed of in the same place.....11 years apart. The villain(s) in the mystery are pretty obvious and the final "roundup" of the bad guys unfulfilling, almost like the writer had a certain number of pages he was obligated to complete in order to fulfill his contract and had achieved that number so he wrapped up the entire story in 4 pages.
The thing that keeps the reader engaged is the authenticity of police procedure in the gathering of forensic evidence during the parallel investigations being conducted by the duo as well as the interconnection of the plethora of crimes, ranging from gambling and prostitution to murder, that their diligence unearths.
Not a great book, but not all that bad.......Overall, an okay choice for a lazy afternoon.
I'm beginning to sound like a broken record because.......2007-03-15
all the McGarrity books feel the same. This is my 3rd review, and the 5th or 6th Kevin Kearney book I've read. And I can't add much to my previous reviews:
1) This book like the others are all easy to read and follow, and the characters are easy to like.
2) Like all good crime authors, he does a very good job of showing us how a crime investigation proceeds. I think some other reviewer said he was an ex-police officer or something like that. (You don't have to be an ex-cop because Michael Connolly was an ex-crime reporter and his crime books has a lot of realism too.)
The bad:
1) There is no suspense! We get to see from the criminals' point of view. Bad if you want suspense, and good if you need to put the book down and do something else. I say that because in some books you can't stop reading because you want to find out whodunit. In McGarrity's books you already know, so there is no urgency.
2) The ending, like all the others, are rushed. He literally (no pun intended) wraps up the book in 2-3 pages. Another reviewer said maybe he had a 274 page deadline, because all the books end on page 273.
My conclusion: I'll still keep reading, I think they're fine, just not great.
this one is bit weak and boring.......2006-05-30
i've loyally read all the kevin kerney series from its beginning, it seems to me that this one is weaker than the other, albeit boring sometimes. all the threads seemed to be readily made for woven into a larger piece of boring storyline. i personally don't kerney's bioson, clayton, and think him a bit wimpy, stupid, rigid and too racial conscious almost all the time. he did not qualify as a very sharp detective and his narrow-minded personal feelings wouldn't make him a better person or a better detective. mcgarrity might have created a blocking stone in this series and now it's too late to get rid of this guy. the short and always hopping around with simple scenario of this book also jarred my preference to this specific one. all the characters were just waltzing around without any depth. the protitutes/drug ring also read pretty lame. mr mcgarrity didn't do a better job than what he used to do before and this series has been continuously declining and falling flat one by one. i've lost the exciting feelings i used to have when i started this series and just hope that i won't decide to stop reading it too soon. don't cash in on this series' success and kill it mindlessly, please.
Liked it until the end.......2006-05-01
Here I am, listening to a really good book on tape, when what happens? It wraps everything up and ends in about 30 seconds of time. I fumbled around thinking my iPod had malfunctioned, but no... they were saying "we hope you have enjoyed...blah blah". I've never seen such an abrubt and unsatisfying ending in the hundreds and hundreds of books I've read. If another book is forthcoming, I'll be a little molified, but not much.
Realistic.......2006-01-11
Most murder mysteries end with an "Aha!" and some pleasant words about the future. This book takes you through an abbreviated version of the process of gathering enough evidence to go to trial, and then blissfully spares us the courtroom drama. The characters are wooden, much of the drama staid, and worst of all, the staging of chapter and scene is formulaic, but the action is engrossing and the writing good enough. There is little poetry in it, but a gruff sense of duty and interest in the pursuit of criminals, and then some romance/drama from the main characters to keep our interest despite never fully being resolved. For readers of urban mysteries, the change of setting to rural New Mexico might seem a shock but the basic story and the personalities required to play out its drama remain the same.
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Character: A Novel of Father and Son
Ferdinand Bordewijk
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Character
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The basis of the Academy AwardDwinning film--essentially the story of a young man growing up in a Rotterdam slum and making good by pluck and intelligence, but all of his success comes out of the desire to spite his violent, grasping, and ruthless father. Roger Ebert called the tale dark, bitter, and fascinating.
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One of the best books in Dutch literature........1998-12-18
Bordewijk has a special style of writing. He uses just enough words to characterize people. This book is probably one of the best books he ever wrote. It is the fight between a father and his basterd son. This son tries to get attention from his father by trying to be better all the time. His father forces him into this role by not paying attention. It is a hate-love story. If you want to read something from Dutch literature this is really it!
Oscar-winning movie (foreign; '97) based on this great book!.......1998-11-26
Character (by Bordewijk) is one of the best books in Dutch literature history! I can strongly recommend you to read it. There is a high chance that you will actually re-read it, as I did!
The movie "Character" was based on this book and won an Oscar in 1997 for the best foreign movie. In fact, the film is also highly recommended!
Probably the main reason for my recommendation is the theme of the book: a man's persistance and his father's challenges.
emotionele diepgang.......1998-08-23
Dit boek heb ik gelezen in 1983 voor mijn boekenlijst. Een vader zit zijn bastaardzoon voortdurend dwars om hem te harden voor het harde leven. Liefde kan hij niet uiten maar is wel degelijk aanwezig. De relatie tussen vader en zoon maakt het de zoon moeilijk om een emotionele band met een vrouwelijke collega te krijgen. Een aanrader.
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- Hard Ball
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Hard Ball : A Billy Baggs Novel
Will Weaver
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Now they faced each other, King holding his shoulder, Billy holding his hand across his burning chest, then lurched at each other like crazed animals. They flailed, grunted, shouted, kicked, swore. Billy and King rolled in the choking, coarse dust
The bad blood between Billy Baggs and King Kenwood runs deep. Deeper than the feelings they both have for Suzy Langen, the best-looking girl in the ninth grade. Deeper than both of them wanting to catch the eye of their baseball coach, or that of a few college scouts. The bad blood has been there for so long no one is sure when it began.
After the horrible family tragedy on the farm, this year Billy's hoping he's finally getting his life back on track.And he is -- until one summer night when his long-standing rivalry with King turns violent, shocking both boys' parents and the small-town community with its brutality.
Using baseball as his bargaining chip, Coach Anderson devises an extrodinary plan to keep the peace between Billy and King. Resentful at first, then startled, both boys come to realize that the problems between them begin much closer to home -- with their own fathers.
Filed with passion for baseball, family and life, Hard Ball explores the mysterious complexities that begin between fathers and sonsAfter a family tragedy on the farm, Billy Baggs's life is finally back on track. He's starting high school. He's caught the eye of the baseball coach and even a few college scouts. He has prospects for a girlfriend—Suzy Langen, the catch of the ninth grade. But blocking Billy's path is King Kenwood, town rich kid and ace pitcher. As the two boys' rivalry turns violent, it is left to Coach Anderson to find a solution. In the process, both Billy and King come to find their real problems might lie closer to home—with their own fathers.
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Hard Ball.......2006-05-17
I give this book 4 stars because the author explains the area they are at so well I feel like I am there. I also liked it because it had some very funny parts. This book caught my I when i first saw it becasue it is about baseball and baseball is my all time favorite sport.
my review on hard ball.......2006-04-01
I think you should read this book because it teaches you not to like someone just becausewhere they come from. It's about a fram boy that has to leave in the city for a week and acity kid that has to live in the city so they can paly for there baseball team at school.which they both fight over a girl which you tries to protect the other one and one tries to go out with her. over the week there relationship get strong and the under stand each other
Going Going Gone.......2005-09-28
Billy Baggs a 15-year-old kid loved baseball and as long as he could remember King Kenwood and him have been archrivals. They both play on baseball teams, Billy plays for the farm team and King plays for the town team. Billy and King both like this girl named Suzy Langen. Suzy and King had a thing for each other but then Billy broke it up. There baseball coach for next year is Mr. Anderson the high school coach. He heard that Billy and King don't really get along with each other so he makes them spend one week together. He does that because he wants them to get along better so they don't fight on the team next year. If they don't get along they don't play. But before that happened Billy and Suzy did some things to get closer and closer. You will have to read to see what that is and see if Billy and King get along better.
Some things that I liked were that the book was about baseball, and baseball is one of my favorite sports. I also liked that Billy and King had to send a week together because at some points it was pretty funny. I like that Billy and King were fighting between a girl because it was funny to see what they were going to do to get Suzy's attention. I didn't like it because some times I would lose track of what was going on. But other than that I really liked the book.
I think that anyone that likes baseball and friends would like this book because it is mostly about baseball and friendship. I thought that it was a pretty good book because it was funny and it was about baseball. So if you like those things I would read this book. If you like Matt Christopher and other sports authors I would read this book.
One Great Baseball Book!!.......2005-09-28
One Great Book!!! It is about a kid named Billy 14 that lived on a farm and a kid name King Kenwood that lived in town. They both are great pitchers and they both have their own baseball team. Billy's team is a farm team and King's is a town team. They both like a girl named Suzy Langen.
They go to a game to Minneapolis to watch the Twin's play. Billy really likes Suzy so he stares at her most of the game. King Kenwood likes her just as much as Billy does and asked her if she wanted to sit in the box seats instead of outside, because he has an extra ticket. Suzy says not now maybe later. Jake goes instead to the box seats. Later on in the game King Kenwood comes back up and says does anyone else want to go. Suzy got up and went down there with King to the box seats. Billy stated to stare at King and Suzy. A batter on one of the teams hits a hard line drive foul. Billy gets hit in the mouth by the ball and is sent to the hospital at the stadium. Billy's lip is really messed up and two of his teeth are broken. Billy is then taken to a the Twin's loker room. Jim Kaat a pitcher for the Twin's and puts his signature on his old glove and gives it to Billy.
Billy's mom wants to get Billy some new school clothes and his teeth fixed. The town have one more hame left on Friday. Suzy had not been to any of their games, but she went to this one. Billy and King are the starting pitchers for the night. Billy does good for awhile, but then gets bad. King on the other hand does good all the way. Billy gets pulled out and goes over to Suzy. Suzy wants a kitten Billy has many of and is trying to get rid of them. Billy and Suzy go to get a kitten. Suzy sees a swing and wants to swing on it. Suzy wants Billy do join so he does. Later on the swing breaks and they fall to the ground. They then begin to kiss each other. King Kenwood then arrives and is mad as all get out. King and Billy start to fight against each other. Suzy then calls for help and everyone comes over. The coach says if they want to play baseball for him that they have to spend a whole week together. They end up learning what it is like in other areas of someone's life. They drawl closer to being friends then they ever where, but they would never be friends. Their dads both disliked one another. Billy and King end up doing something about it and their dads become to like each other better.IF YOU LIKE BASEBALL READ THIS BOOK ITS GREAT!!!
One of the Best.......2004-06-09
I have to say, this book is the best about Baseball that I have yet read, and believe me, I've read alot of them. Hardball is the third book in a series of novels featuring farm boy Billy Baggs who has to deal with, puberty, his father's jailing and parole and school. The book shows increased relationships between Billy and Suzy than the previous two. However, this book kind of leaves readers hanging. What will happen to Billy and Suzy? Will Billy and King ever become friends? I don't know. I hope Will Weaver will write another book to finish things off.
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In this final novel of the Land of the Living sequence are the voices of the dead poet, John Cilydd More, and his youngest son Peredur in a twin-track narrative. Humphreys won the English Book of the Year 1999 at the Hay Festival.
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Darkness at Heart: Fathers and Sons in Conrad (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
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Although the fiction of Joseph Conrad has been studied extensively from a psychological perspective, a major theme seemingly neglected is that of ambivalence in the relations between fathers and sons. This volume contains Rising's Freudian and post-Freudian analysis of father/son interactions, at either the family or the social level, in Conrad's work. Defining the father as any older male with power and influence over a younger one, Rising examines wide thematic variations that show Conrad's obsessive concern with paternity-- as an object either of fear and hatred or of longing--and in turn addresses the theme of Conrad's most successful fiction: the protagonist's struggle to find (or keep) his place in a world of men. In his fiction, Conrad uses an array of fathers and paternal types to achieve a constantly shifting perspective on filial relationships. In a panorama of actual or potential conflict, the author provides portraits of Conrad's father and son, and shows what chance of accommodation he offers. In chapters on the prototype of the father, the jeaopardy of the son on land, and the immunity of the son at sea, the book discusses Conrad's use of an Oedipal compromise, a solution he abandoned in later works. Ultimately, although he appears to have sought new avenues of reconciliation in his last novels, the author demonstrates that the father/son antagonism is never fully resolved in his fiction. In addition to the primary chapters and epilogue, the work contains a bibliography and an index. This book will be an important reference tool for courses in English and psychology, as well as an important addition to academic and public libraries.
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Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid: Tum Genitor Natum
M. Owen Lee
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Will detective Dan Reles arrest his own father . . . or will the mob find him first?
Lieutenant Dan Reles has a new house, a wife, and a son, and a great career as head of Austin Homicide, but it's funny how your past catches up with you. When Dan's deadbeat father Ben Reles, a Mafia legbreaker who's spent the last twenty years on the run, shows up on Dan's doorstep with an escaped prostitute in tow, trouble is sure to follow.
That trouble is Sam Zelig, a sociopathic godfather with limitless resources and boundless rage. In several diabolical strokes, he now holds Austin hostage, forcing Dan to choose between the town he's sworn to protect, his new family, and his father. In the process he faces trial by fire, bullet, bridge embankment, and one very angry woodchipper. Sure to satisfy Simon's core devotees as well as fans of Dennis Lehane and James Ellroy, Last Jew Standing is fastpaced and suspenseful from start to finish.
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