One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys God is dead. Meet the kids. When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life. Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie. Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself. Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
尼尔·盖曼 Neil Gaiman,广受赞誉的小说、漫画作者,曾赢得无数奖项。
因主题宏大、辽阔疆域、堪称史诗级的巨作《美国众神》而家喻户晓,而《蛛神男孩》则是一本会让人微笑的书,有幽默、有诡计、有智慧,还充满了冒险的趣味。
尼尔·盖曼将自己的这本书描述为“一本魔幻恐怖惊悚鬼魅浪漫喜剧家庭史诗”,不仅如此,他还机智地将喜剧的本质、快节奏的恐怖小说和犯罪小说的情节融合起来,使这个有关善恶的故事从表面上看起来并没有深邃的道理,却在本质上直击了寻常小人物的心灵和他们所经历着的浪漫传奇的残酷。
这本书的一个中文书名是《蜘蛛男孩》,个人觉得不妥。Anansi是非洲的一个神祗,以蜘蛛的模样著称,狡猾多智,直接翻成“蜘蛛”,略去了很多内涵。至于boys,书中的两个主角都是30岁,不能叫做男孩了。故此,翻成“蜘蛛神之子”或“安纳西之子”,都比“蜘蛛男孩”要好。 这一...
评分我也丢失了一位来自太空、穿着银色披风、可以隐身和飞行、永远生气勃勃不知疲倦、脑子里总是充满奇妙计划的兄弟…… 我要怎样才能把他找回来呢……
评分我也丢失了一位来自太空、穿着银色披风、可以隐身和飞行、永远生气勃勃不知疲倦、脑子里总是充满奇妙计划的兄弟…… 我要怎样才能把他找回来呢……
评分在 “魔幻、恐怖、惊悚、鬼魅、浪漫的家庭喜剧史诗 ”的外壳下,《蜘蛛男孩》实际上有着严肃而深刻的内核。它在探讨一个关于男孩如何成长的问题,而这个问题,或多或少地困扰过每个男孩的成长过程,它关系到一场自我力量之间的搏斗,在成长过程中,如何与消极、悲观、怯懦、自...
评分如果有人跟你说,只有当你自己做了父母,才能体会父母对你的苦心。也许你会第一百次在心里回答,烦不烦啊你。 一名身为父亲的神,他这德行像个父亲吗?一名身为神的父亲,他这德行又像个神吗?不论从哪个方面看,他都不称职。除了拿他一无是处的儿子开涮。还有那个一直给他带来...
丰富有趣的好看的故事
评分A simple but warm story. About family, father- son, romance and justice. Quite entertaining.
评分丰富有趣的好看的故事
评分兄弟情深。其实挺温情的一本书
评分兄弟情深。其实挺温情的一本书
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