MUSTAFA ÇETİNEL

 Hi Everybody,

Lets talk today about a book that i just finished yesterday on the way to home. The book was in English, so i will write this comment in English. I hope, you would enjoy it and not have so much fun with my foreign language.

Whatever, this book has been suggested to me by my brother (Rahim) and i had this book since so long time in my library waiting for me to read. At the end, after i forgot most of my books in Frankfurt when i came to Brussels, i had to read this one.

Let me be honest with you. The book was really good. Especially the language that author used. I read lots of English books but this language was so different than the others. It was so easy to read and author was talking to us. He was telling us a story and i was just sitting next to him.

Now let me explain the story a little bit. Anansi is an American God refers to Spiders. There are gods for every animal shape and Anansi is just one of them. But he is different that others cos he is more clever. According to this book, the world is having it’s shape by songs and stories of American Gods. All the songs and stories were belonging to Tiger till Anansi tricked him and got them. Afterwards, since thousands of years, everybody tells Anansi stories, every sings Anansi songs.

One day, Anansi dies. One of his son, Fat Charlie finds out that he has a brother named Spider. And he can contact to him by telling to a spider that he wants to see his brother. Cos Spider has all the God powers…

One day, even though Charlie did not believe to this elderly story, he decided to ask a spider about his brother. And than everything starts. For the rest, you have to read the book.
But let me assure you that the book is really fantastic. It really worths to spend time on it.

Have fun with the book,

Regards,
Mustafa

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It is difficult to give up on writing about Neil Gaiman’s books. This is also another of his books probably the second one I have read: Anansi Boys.  I also realize that I have yet to write about this books in Turkish, well I will do it in later time.

Anansi Boys are also about old gods but not in a way that Gaiman’s book “American Gods” does. It’s mostly about Charles Nancy who is actually named by his father as “Fat Charlie” and his father being a god the name sticks. He complains about it all his life and most in the book and it is kind of funny considering that he is not fat at all.

In a way Fat Charlie (opps it sticks to my writing as well) same as Shadow of American Gods; they both are clueless about what’s really going on around them (in reference to the story of the book). He also has a brother who is completely different and opposite of him, Spider. Fat Charlie being a shy, less talkative and normal person learns about his father’s death and goes back to America (because he lives in England) to take care about the things that are need to be done about the funeral. On the other hand, the outgoing, cool brother Spider decides to live with Charlie and the fun starts. I also should add that (even I recognised it much later) the book’s heroes (the Anansi Boys) are actually black people (or maybe I should say African-American to be more politically correct) and Gaiman does not mention it in the book not even once but you understand it anyway.

The book is cool. When you think about it all of Gaiman’s books are cool, so this one is no different and me mentioning it is kind of lame. But his way of telling the story, his perceptions about normal people that live normal lives and the smart way he puts them into his books including this one is amazing. As a reader you start to realize this as soon as the book starts and you can always get the feeling that this might actually be true even you know that it is a fiction and a production of of a great mind. I believe this is also one of the reasons that I like most about Neil Gaiman and his work. He can easily convice you with his words and/or his drawings (he is also the creator of infamous Sandman series) and he does it so good.

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