by Quentin Crisp, Mervyn Peake
Despite the length of this book, it didn't seem as hard to read as the first.Yes, it still had tortuously long sentences and words that were not in the Kindle dictionary. It also required several readings of some passages to get the general idea.This time, however, the main characters were known (an...
bookshelves: summer-2011 Read from July 25 to August 01, 2011 Titus Groan 4*Gormenghast 5*Loved to hate steerpike, probably one of the most evil personages in fiction, wouldn't you say? And what about the Phantom of the Opera moment? Overall, what with the Yorick kiss and the Ophelia moment, it w...
Gormenghast is the middle part of a trilogy, and you should read Titus Groan first if you haven't already. It took me a long time to warm up to Titus Groan and I only got hooked about half-way through. At first I didn't like any of the characters, and Peake's style is forbidding at times. The pace i...
I think I'd only read Gormenghast (the book) once before, maybe twice, whereas I've read the first book, [b:Titus Groan|39063|Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)|Mervyn Peake|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327871204s/39063.jpg|3250394], multiple times. Unsurprisingly, I didn't remember this s...
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake is a unique book. It is an incomparable masterpiece by one of the most amazing and interesting authors I have ever had the chance to read. And I say “amazing” with the true meaning of the word as this is a book that will amaze you constantly while reading it. See, Peake’s...
2nd in the Gormenghast trilogy - better than the first which was very good. Eager to move onto book 3!
How to rate this one? Three stars or four? Well, I'm unlikely to read this again, so I guess three. Or am I? Maybe I'll try it again some day. Four?I find the Gormenghast books a bit exhausting, and they fall under the category of books that I respect, but that I don't particularly like. The charact...
Titus Groan 4*Gormenghast 5*Loved to hate steerpike, probably one of the most evil personages in fiction, wouldn't you say? And what about the Phantom of the Opera moment? Overall, what with the Yorick kiss and the Ophelia moment, it was Hamlet all the way and I can't fault that at all.
The sequel to the wonderful Titus Groan. At his christening, Titus, heir to the earldom of Gormenghast (accidentally) ripped the ancient book of ritual and at his earling (aged 2) he blasphemed again by removing sacred objects and casting them into the lake. That congenital rebellion comes to fruiti...
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