Anansi Brothers, by Neil Gaiman
Part 1

Strangely enough, I'm starting off this blog with a book not exactly in the genre I tend to read. It's got magic, it's got folklore. Too early to tell whether or not I like it yet.

So far, it's got that casual and third-person-removed feeling to it with a main character who isn't automatically likeable. His nickname is "Fat Charlie", he has a job he doesn't really enjoy but can't aspire to much more, his mother has died, his father is an embarassment.

I'm about 30-50 pages into the book, and it started to get more interesting on the subway ride down to work this morning.

More to follow.