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Titus Alone (Gormenghast Trilogy #3) - Mervyn Peake
Titus Alone (Gormenghast Trilogy #3)
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN: 9780345281937 (0345281934)
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Series: Gormenghast -3 (#3)
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meganbaxter
meganbaxter rated it
I have a rocky relationship with the Gormenghast books. I've often found the writing style too ornate - deliciously descriptive, true, but also sometimes so adorned that I can't tell what the hell is going on. I found the second book more readable than the first. I find the third more readable than ...
Bry's Bountiful Book Blog
Bry's Bountiful Book Blog rated it
4.0
I love this trilogy, and I'll debate with anyone who says that this book is a letdown. True, it is quite different from Titus Groan and Gormenghast, but Peake was, I think, attempting to portray a different atmosphere - a different world, even - than the world of Gormenghast. The titular castle was ...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
2.0 TITUS ALONE (Gormenghast Trilogy 3)
My first impression of Titus Groan, the first part of the Gormenghast Trilogy, was that it was a deeply weird book. I was warned that Titus Alone, the third and last part, "gets even... weirder," and I'd say that's the case, and it feels very different than the other two. The first two books establi...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
3.0
Wasn't going to bother with this as I felt the death of Steerpike was probably the Jumping The Shark moment, however inclement weather has stopped play so I might as well dive into the fray. I see Libbeth has given it a 5* and we coincide on a lot of ratings. Wanda? are you still 'in' with it?:O)
Cecily's book reviews
Cecily's book reviews rated it
4.0
Titus Groan and Gormenghast are two of my ten favourite books (reviewed on my Favourites shelf), but despite some wonderful language, I cannot love this one, intriguing as it is. China MiƩville argued (in a lecture at the British Library 11th June 2011) that this volume recasts the previous two and ...
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