Comments | tramz: When Are You Dreaming, The Dreams You're Feeling?

tramz

When Are You Dreaming, The Dreams You're Feeling?

Sep 21, 2005 14:17

Neil Gaiman released a new book yesterday, called Anansi Boys. It is about a man who, upon his fathers death, finds out that his father was a human form of the african trickster god.. Anansi. Not only that, but that he has a brother named Spider who has some of his fathers powers. This brother gets him in all sorts of trouble: Gets him fired, ( Read more... )

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aprendiz September 21 2005, 19:15:54 UTC

I've been looking forward to Anansi Boys for a long time, and I totally forgot it was coming out so soon. I thought it was in October! I need to get right on that...

American Gods is still semi-fresh in my head, too, which'll be nice, depending on how much he references it. I'm certainly not expecting to see Shadow or anything like that, though.

tramz September 22 2005, 01:10:01 UTC

I can wait a little bit on the book as i still have some stuff to finish up. I'm finishing The Real Lincoln, and i really should pick The Baroque Cycle back up (not sure why i put it down). But it is just nice to know that there is another Gaiman book out there waiting for me. I had no idea it was coming till i saw it listed in this weeks independant releases on midtowncomics.com.

zellie_bean September 21 2005, 22:09:17 UTC

Haha, neat. I remember in 5th grade going to this one week nature expidition thing where we lived in cabins and one night a performer came and told the story of Anansi the Spider and how his head got on backwards and to this day I STILL associate Anansi and Spider and I STILL remember parts of that story and the exact vocal tone anf body positions she used for it.

tramz September 22 2005, 01:07:38 UTC

It sounds like this book might be up your alley. It might add to the story a bit for you. Not that you really have time to be reading books what between school stuff, tmnt, new comp, the trev, and whatever else. But it might be something to keep in mind. Surak found some copies at his library already. You probably can as well.

zellie_bean September 22 2005, 01:43:20 UTC

Heh yeah, Gaiman in general is something I need to be reading. And Murray actually has a few copies of his books so I could go right there and get it buuuuut TIME >_>