It's definitely on my list, but in a paperback kind of way unless my dad buys it for me. (My dad and I always give each other books for our birthdays, which are a week apart, and the last three years, we've given each other the same book. It's becoming a game -- who can buy it for the other one before they buy it for themselves! Race to the Borders!)
I still haven't gotten around to American Gods -- when it first came out, I heard from a few people that it was a lot of the same ground he'd already covered in Brief Lives, and I've never thought his regular novels were as well-written as his graphic ones.
I saw on something or other that it's the #1 fiction book. Which doesn't gibe with the New York Times list I just found, so I don't know . . . .
Anyone reading Anansi Boys? Dear god, I am LOVING it.
It's wonderful. I loved it to bits.
Jilli, you loved it even with the
spiders? The description gave even me the creepy-crawlies.
I just finished it, and now I can't fall asleep. Not because of the book, but all the same, I can't sleep.
God, it was fantastic. I mean really really.
I'm trying to be patient, and wait to buy both Thud and Anansi Boys at the next con I attend.(which will be OVFF, Oct 21-23rd) It's been difficult, though...
Yes, Steph, even with
all the spiders. Neil's descriptions of them did not trigger my instinctive "Gaaaah! Gaaaaaaah!" reaction. Unlike, say, Caitlin's descriptions of spiders in Silk or Murder of Angels.
I need to get the audiobook of it now.
That's because we('re supposed to) like them in this book, I think
The
seven-legged one was kinda cute as spiders go.
I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Very reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale."
Dammit, I was actively looking for this one in the bookstore today. They were out. I got Jeffrey Eugenides'
Middlesex
instead.
BTW, Tim Winton's
The Turning?
I can recommend. A lot.
