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irá adorar Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. A good read with lots of twists and turns.  toddphillips77 | Dec 3, 2009 |  Fat Charlie Nancy learns quite a bit about his family after his father's embarrassing death in a karaoke bar. First, his father was a god. Second, Fat Charlie has a brother he never knew about.Sibling rivalry, love triangles, embezzlement, and a few miracles make this an entertaining enough read. (  ) catalogthis | Nov 24, 2009 | The most satisfying book i have read recently. Mr. Gaiman fills this story with events and people that just can't be, and yet he weaves a believable story out of these supernatural elements. Bravo. (  ) larry_morgan | Nov 23, 2009 | This was a fun book but probably not Gaiman's strongest work. Anansi is a trickster God, and he is dead. His two sons, powerful Spider and diminuitive Fat Charlie reunite and venture into the land of the gods. Funny and entertaining. ( ) ccavaleri | Nov 12, 2009 | Though it's set more or less in the same universe as American Gods, I don't think you need to read that one first to enjoy this one. It's the story of Charles Nancy, who discovers his recently deceased father is actually the spider god Anansi, and he has a brother he never knew. The story is fairly light as these things go, with some very funny bits and the general tomfoolery you can expect from any Gaiman book. I enjoyed it, but I would only recommend it to someone who already enjoys Gaiman. Not the best book to get introduced to his work with, but a decent read all the same. (  ) melydia | Oct 28, 2009 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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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."
(retirado da Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400)
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