I've been listening to the Anansi Boys unabridged audiobook recording. The narrator is Lenny Henry, an English standup comedian that you might have seen in the comedy Chef! (This has been rerun many times on PBS-if you're a fan of Fawlty Towers you must rent the DVDs now.) The key thing that makes any audiobook entertaining is the narrator's ability to match the material with a variety of accents. Henry is perfect for the Anansi Boys, the story of a sad-sack loser who discovers that his father was a Spider-god. He does everything from Jamaican to African American to upper-crust English accents. The story is quite funny and touching, and although I haven't finished it yet, I think it's probably Gaiman's best work to date. Nuff said.
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