Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys is definitely entertaining. Though the book incorporates bits of romantic comedy, crime drama, and horror, this is a love-buddy comedy in which the protagonist's antagonist is ‘so close to him’ that he is actually literary his brother - yet again simple great storytelling.
"Fat Charlie" Nancy, our protagonist, is embarrassed by his father, we discover he’s not a good guy, and after he dies Charlie discovers that he also has a brother, who in all possibilities is the exact opposite to Charlie.
Our protagonist is introduced into a world where magic is real. The humor comes from topics that include Fat Charlie's nebbishy qualities as well as the mismatch between him and his brother.
Anansi Boys also draws on the structure of Shakespearean comedy-perhaps unsurprisingly, given that Gaiman's Sandman comic could be interpreted as a decade-long homage to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
I think that Anansi Boys is like an extended film treatment, where the depth at which you can go with, with a novel, has not been reached here.
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