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nwhyte

January Books 2) Anansi Boys

Jan 02, 2006 21:41

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writer: neil gaiman, writer: ursula le guin, sf: bfa, tv: buffy, bookblog 2006

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sugarimp January 3 2006, 12:45:24 UTC

I like listening to audiobooks while I'm working with my hands or while I'm in bed. The quality of audiobooks depends entirely on the reader. I'm currently listening to the Dark Tower series by stephen king, and they're such a pleasure to listen to because Frank Muller (before he went and got himself into a paralysing motorbike accident :() is a wonderful reader and gives life to characters like no other. You notice things in the books your eyes might have otherwise skimmed over. I have an audio version of one of the books read by Stephen King himself, and he makes me want to shoot the cd player. He's terrible.

Anansi Boys nnaloh January 3 2006, 18:47:16 UTC

Mild spoilers ( ... )

Re: Anansi Boys nwhyte January 7 2006, 10:19:49 UTC

Wow. Thanks for all of this (and sorry for not responding sooner). I still get a thrill when award-winning authors respond to my posts! Will reread with care.

Re: Anansi Boys winterchill January 13 2006, 00:55:49 UTC

I'm 99% sure that Daisy (the policewoman) was Asian. I don't particularily remember what it was that made me think that, but I thought of her as white until a certain point of time at which I switched my mental image of her.

Re: Anansi Boys violin_road January 13 2006, 01:09:17 UTC

Here from ... goodness, Neil's blog; that's a little unnerving, isn't it?

But at any rate, winterchill, thank you. Seriously. I said myself that, while I couldn't remember anything particular that said it, I read Daisy as Asian*. So if I'm crazy, at least I'm not crazy alone.

* By which I mean, er, East Asian or Oriental or what-have-you, since apparently ... the word "Asian" means different things in different places.

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nnaloh January 13 2006, 00:51:19 UTC

*curtsey* You're welcome.

here via neil's blog unhipster January 13 2006, 01:35:51 UTC

It ought to be obvious that Charlie and Spider are black, since Anansi is an African god. However, I wasn't sure about their race at first, because Charlie was just so dorky, he seemed white. :-X

Re: here via neil's blog - Ditto darcydodo January 13 2006, 03:03:59 UTC

It took me a while to figure it out, but then it clicked that of course they had to be. And then I spent another little while vacillating and going "but am I sure?" Rosie I decided was, too; but Daisy's race isn't clear at all until it's explicitly stated towards the very end.

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Re: here via neil's blog 11_toed_wonder January 14 2006, 20:33:17 UTC

I'm white and I too grew up with Anansi stories (oddly through girl scouts), but it is not that the boys heard Anansi stories that indicates their skin color but because the boys are actually decended from Anansi.