{"id":704,"date":"2009-08-12T21:31:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T01:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2009-08-12T21:33:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T01:33:58","slug":"anansi-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"Anansi Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Douglas Adams has figured out how to possess mortals from beyond the grave and is residing in Neil Gaiman’s brain!!<\/p>\n

Ok…<\/p>\n

Let me back up a smidge. I like Neil Gaiman’s stuff, I’m rarely disappointed. Sandman and Death were good graphic novel fare, and though the only novel whose title I can remember is American Gods, I’ve enjoyed the 3 or 4 of those I’ve read, too (I thought the Graveyard Book could have been… thicker, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying what was there; indeed, wishing there was more of it is probably high praise). So it was a pretty safe bet that I’d enjoy Anansi Boys<\/a>\"\" as well.<\/p>\n

I did.<\/p>\n

What I didn’t expect though was that about 3\/4 of the way through the book he would suddenly start to channel Douglas Adams (especially that whole bit with the lime). I was laughing out loud (literally) at some points towards the end there. I don’t know if he started getting sleep deprived while writing, or what happened to make the last bit so much more light-hearted, whimsical, and random<\/i>, but I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Douglas Adams has figured out how to possess mortals from beyond the grave and is residing in Neil Gaiman’s brain!! Ok… Let me back up a smidge. I like Neil Gaiman’s stuff, I’m rarely disappointed. Sandman and Death were good graphic novel fare, and though the only novel whose title I can remember is American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}