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Outstanding
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Kirkus Reviews
Intermittently lumpy and self-indulgent, but enormously entertaining throughout. And the Gaiman faithful... will devour it gratefully. [15 Jul 2005, p. 754]
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Outstanding
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Library Journal Ann Kim
A fun book with a little of everything--horror, mystery, magic, comedy, song, romance, ghosts, scary birds, ancient grudges, and trademark British wit. [1 Aug 2005, p.67]
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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
Gleeful, hurtling prose. [18 Jul 2005, p.180]
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Outstanding
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Washington Post Elizabeth Hand
With Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman's delightful, funny and affecting new novel, the bestselling author has scored the literary equivalent of a hole in one.
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Outstanding
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Houston Chronicle Dylan Otto Krider
Gaiman is a trickster in the best sense of the word. He's written another novel that fantasy writers will turn to for lessons on how to misbehave.
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Outstanding
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Boston Globe Bruce Allen
Gaiman knows better, and communicates more forcefully, than any other contemporary writer: Stories and poems, songs and myths, represent us, sustain and complete us, and survive us, while also ensuring that all that's best in us survives with them.
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Favorable
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PopMatters Stephen Rauch
There's something kind of sad about seeing an angst-free Neil Gaiman novel. Even if it is, in all fairness, one of his best-written works so far.
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Favorable
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Daily Telegraph Andrew McKie
This is a very accomplished comic novel; the slickness and the slightness are the product of someone who knows exactly what to do with his material. Neil Gaiman is a very good writer indeed, and this is a very funny bedtime story.
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Favorable
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Salon Laura Miller
"Anansi Boys" is Gaiman's tribute to [the] trickster spirit, as nimble and resourceful as his own imagination.
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Favorable
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The Independent Kim Newman
Anansi Boys is one of Neil Gaiman's books for grown-ups, which means that it's a lot less ruthless than the material he produces for children.
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Favorable
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The Onion A.V. Club Tasha Robinson
Gaiman has steadily evolved into a comfortable, humorous storyteller whose lively modern fairy tales take protagonists--and readers--on rewarding journeys out of mundanity and into more colorful realities. Anansi Boys just does so with a bigger wink and a bigger grin than most.
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Favorable
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USA Today David Colton
No, it is not big, and it may not even be serious, but it is laugh-out-loud funny and scary as a spider on your arm. Or a spider you think is there.
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Mixed
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The New York Times Book Review Charles Taylor
The book is like one of those restaurants with a vast and varied menu, with none of the dishes prepared very well. It's the work of a talented writer who didn't know when to quit.
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Mixed
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The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Thomas Wharton
This eight-legged beastie delivers a good scare as it skitters past, and some laughs, but one wishes it had left more of an impression. [1 Oct 2005]
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Mixed
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Entertainment Weekly Jennifer Reese
A giddy but somewhat unsatisfying ride.
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