I like American Gods a lot more than Anansi Boys, but that could've just been me. IMO, I like Gaiman's short story collections as rereads, but American Gods was pretty awesome on multiple levels.
I don't know why, but I have a hard time rereading Stephen King. Probably after I finished The Dark Tower series :| Harry Potter I haven't gone back and read, mostly because...I don't know. It feels weird rereading a book that I read when I was but a wee child XD
No worries, G! :D I love and welcome differing opinions. To be honest though, nowadays, I only reread the whumpy bits of Anansi Boys, rather than the book itself. As for American Gods, my LOVE knows no bounds for the entire thing. It's gotten so bad that I'm considering "borrowing" my mum's card to reserve my copy of the new, "definitive" (and much longer! YAY! :D) version of it that Neil's putting out later this year
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The Dark Tower...I still have kind of mixed feelings about it. It does feel a lot like a cop out of an ending, but there is a nice symmetry to it all as well as a certain, horribly fatalistic sense of things. I do wish he had at least told us what was in the Dark Tower, at least.
To be fair, King has the occasional nice book- Misery is the first one which leaps to mind, though it is pretty visual.
I might've actually read The Talisman before, way way back when I was in middle school or something haha. I'll do a double check on it whenever I get to stop by the bookstore again.
Misery? Is that the one with the very possibly certifiable "nurse" who breaks the writer's legs with a bat or crowbar after first mending him from an unrelated car accident....just because she didn't want to leave since she's his biggest fan??? (And the movie has James Caan and Kathy Bates, as writer and nurse, respectively
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I don't know why, but I have a hard time rereading Stephen King. Probably after I finished The Dark Tower series :| Harry Potter I haven't gone back and read, mostly because...I don't know. It feels weird rereading a book that I read when I was but a wee child XD
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To be fair, King has the occasional nice book- Misery is the first one which leaps to mind, though it is pretty visual.
I might've actually read The Talisman before, way way back when I was in middle school or something haha. I'll do a double check on it whenever I get to stop by the bookstore again.
Harry Potter is just awesome on all levels :D
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