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Sep. 23rd, 2005 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The only, but real, problem with neil gaiman's writing is that it's so amazingly good, and so easy to read, that you wold down an entire book that you should have read slowly and savoured every line of.
Yes, Anansi Boys is pretty damned fine.
"Fat Charlie wondered what Rosie's mother would usually hear in a church. Probably just cried of "Back! Foul Beast of Hell!" followed by gasps of "Is it alive?", and a nervous enquiry as to whether anybody had remembered to bring the stakes and hammers"
I can think of a few people that might apply to. In my case, being called Damian, it's the getting into the church in the first place that's a problem. And I can tell you, that blue lightning stuff really smarts...
Yes, Anansi Boys is pretty damned fine.
"Fat Charlie wondered what Rosie's mother would usually hear in a church. Probably just cried of "Back! Foul Beast of Hell!" followed by gasps of "Is it alive?", and a nervous enquiry as to whether anybody had remembered to bring the stakes and hammers"
I can think of a few people that might apply to. In my case, being called Damian, it's the getting into the church in the first place that's a problem. And I can tell you, that blue lightning stuff really smarts...