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| ⚫ | ''Anansi Boys'' is a 2005 novel by [[Neil Gaiman]], set in [[The Verse|the same fictional universe]] as his earlier ''[[American Gods]]'', although not a direct sequel to that story -- more of a [[Lighter and Softer]] spinoff, and it was conceived earlier. The protagonist is the nice but unambitious and chronically unlucky Charles Nancy -- nicknamed 'Fat Charlie' by his father at age 10 and dogged by the name ever since, despite not actually being fat -- who's somewhat nonplussed to be told that his recently deceased father was the African trickster god Anansi. Oh, and the reason Fat Charlie doesn't have his dad's godlike powers is that they went to the brother he never knew existed, who he can contact by giving a message to a spider. Not believing a word of this, Fat Charlie nevertheless gets drunk and tells a spider to invite his brother to come for a visit. |
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| ⚫ | '''''Anansi Boys''''' is a 2005 novel by [[Neil Gaiman]], set in [[The Verse|the same fictional universe]] as his earlier ''[[American Gods]]'', although not a direct sequel to that story -- more of a [[Lighter and Softer]] spinoff, and it was conceived earlier. The protagonist is the nice but unambitious and chronically unlucky Charles Nancy -- nicknamed 'Fat Charlie' by his father at age 10 and dogged by the name ever since, despite not actually being fat -- who's somewhat nonplussed to be told that his recently deceased father was the African trickster god Anansi. Oh, and the reason Fat Charlie doesn't have his dad's godlike powers is that they went to the brother he never knew existed, who he can contact by giving a message to a spider. Not believing a word of this, Fat Charlie nevertheless gets drunk and tells a spider to invite his brother to come for a visit. |
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Within a couple of days of Spider turning up, Fat Charlie has lost his job and fiancée, and is also wanted by the police. Willing to do anything to make his brother go away again, he finds a way to contact the other gods and makes a deal. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|And then things start to]] ''[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|really]]'' [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|go wrong.]] |
Within a couple of days of Spider turning up, Fat Charlie has lost his job and fiancée, and is also wanted by the police. Willing to do anything to make his brother go away again, he finds a way to contact the other gods and makes a deal. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|And then things start to]] ''[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|really]]'' [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|go wrong.]] |
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