i finished the bbc audiodrama version of it! I like it. probably because i haven't finished the book yet so i like it. but yeah i think i stopped the book where it starts to get graphically violent, and i feel the audio version of it, despite still having that, doesn't feel as much. maybe it's more effective when I have to build the scene from text by imagining it myself.

Themewise, ah it is indeed an American Gods. AG the book has touched on that theme of being a shadow of a man, but I think that theme got amplified in the show, and Anasi boys the audiodrama made it very central, the naming, the finding yourself. Supposedly, the other thing is about the story. I feel the audiodrama made it a bit secondary and I suspect that may be what I'd pick up more from reading the book. But Pterry has done a LOT on stories, which, well, I will just borrow it to use on your friend.

I can't help comparing it to Thief of Time, because of the twin thing. ToT did touch on the feeling incomplete, but i don't think ToT is a clean split like this. .... actually i don't remember what happened with the other twin of Time's, .... and it actually is not so happy-ending as this audiodrama, this one is... so wholesome? why is gaiman being wholesome? Is this changed by the adapting? probably is, considering what they did to pterry's. ehm.