And what am I doing up this late?

[kyrielle]

Going to bed, of course. But first I had to finish reading Anansi Boys. I wanted to know how it ended. And I was afraid if I stopped reading it, inertia would prevent me from every starting again.

Honestly? It's not that great a book. American Gods is better but neither, when I think about it, is an enjoyable book, taken as a whole. Both have moments. But that's...all they've got.

(Fair advertising: I don't like watching people make fools of themselves or be made fools of themselves. As Gaiman spends a fair bit of time actively tormenting his main character in this way, it's like fingernails on chalk for me. I'm not sure it's a bad story if you like these sorts of things, although it still seemed rather forced and uninteresting by turns, to me. But that might be because I was skimming it because I was bored and fingernail-chalk-cringe by turns.)

Ahwell. That takes care of the 14-day loan books that have holds on them, so at least that's no longer a problem.

Comments

[ladywraith.livejournal.com]

Huh... interesting point about Gaiman's writing. I did notice that he tormented poor Shadow a lot in American Gods (yes, I finally finished it). Though, I enjoyed AG, I must say. I found it interesting and even fun trying to guess who was who throughout it before he'd reveal too much about them. But that was just one of the things that I got out of it. I don't know if I will move onto Anansi Boys. Down the road, maybe. I might check it out; I might check out one of his others... or I might just leave it altogether. Admittedly, AG set me waaaaaaaaay back in my 50 book challenge. I think it was book 18... and friends of mine are nearing book 40 at this point. But, I think I'm glad I read it.

But I digress. Thanks for the input about AB. :)

[kyrielle]

I found AG a slow read also. I found AB much faster - but partially because it was uncomfortable enough I was skimming. Shadow has Bad Things happen to him, sometimes he's stupid, but usually bad things. Fat Charlie NAncy, on the other hand, attracts stupid actions in both himself and the people around him. Not, really, so much fun to read. Nor do you get to guess who is who, since there's very little of other gods in this setting/context (at least, that you know for sure are gods).