anansi boys

Anansi boys was a good read but not very filling. It was the equivalent of eating chinese food, I was hungry all over again 30 min. later. But this did not stop me from enjoying the book. The book had a lot of depth to it. Along with a whole lot of layers. The book starts off really funny explaining how fat charlie had his life ruined by his fathers death. It was not far into the book that you realize fat charlie is a push over, child like and has more than enough dad issues along with twice the amount of issues he has with his self esteem. The introduction of spiders character has an interesting, well spider himself is interesting. He turns out to be fat Charlie's other half of himself. This was a good surprise I thought It was also interesting to watch the two boys switch women and become the better of it. Like the universe was righting a few wrongs. Fat charlie definitely learns a hell of a whole lot not only about him self but also his family history and all of this really helps charlie figure out who the hell he is and where he fits into the world and that is something he really struggled with his entire life. Fat Charles brother really turns his life to pieces when he shows up and seems to be convinced he can do what ever he wants for example when he takes fat Charlie's fiance for himself and thinks nothing of it. When spider first shows up he is admired by fat charlie because he is the exact opposite of him along with everything he wants to be and more. I love at the end how everything falls apart for each of the characters all at the same time only to have it at the very end all tie back together except only different and this time proper.