Anansi Boys
2006-12-01 18:51:52.212157+01 by
Dan Lyke
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Oh yeah: I haven't done a full write-up on this one 'cause I'm not sure what I'd say, but: Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys: If you liked American Gods (I did, Larry did), this one's a must-read. If you haven't read either, it's in paper, and well worth the few hours it'll take to get through it.
And as an aside: Another "I don't have time for this", but I want a search engine that gives me a list of all of the mentions of "American Gods" on weblogs I read. Sigh: Something else to add to the "someday I'll write code to..." list.
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#Comment Re: made: 2006-12-01 19:08:12.20413+01 by:
Larry Burton
I thought for sure that I had written a review of this book, but, yeah, what Dan said. This is another romp through folk tales, religion and whimsy. If you liked American Gods you will like this one too.
#Comment Re: made: 2006-12-02 13:55:06.494791+01 by:
DaveP
On the Mac, History Hound will search through
every web page you've read. I find it useful for the "where the heck did I see that" searches, since even if
the page isn't in my history/cache anymore, it'll at least tell me what website I saw it on, and then I can
use that on google (e.g. "American Gods" site:flutterby.com into google's search field) to find the page in
the archives.
On other Unices, I'd set up a squid proxy with a search. There are a couple different solutions I looked at,
but I don't remember the names. No idea what exists on Windows.
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