I just read Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys. Such a good, funny and thought provoking read. You know one of those in which you sense hidden depths of meaning that you’re not sure you can quite grasp. At the end Fat Charlie (no not the Fat Lady) sings. He finds his voice. A lovely metaphor for finding himself. Andrew Norriss has found his voice too. In each new book it is a little clearer and his stories become more and more wonderful. Ctrl-Z (the undo shortcut on a computer keyboard…) is his latest. It doesn’t come out until March but you can read a sneak peak on my website http://anorrissbooks.wordpress.com/. Neil Gaiman and Andrew Norriss are both examples of fine fantasy writers whose fantasy worlds blend very nicely with real life and who subtly ponder the meaning of life.
Back to Anansi Boys – ‘By the windmills of Babyland he sat and wept’! Such a genius play on words if you get it, and if you don’t, you don’t know what you’ve missed.
Tags: Anansi Boys, fantasy, Neil Gaiman, Norriss, voice, writing
