Tough going in places. I found myself skipping through some bits and rereading others. It's taken nearly a month - the longest time I've stuck with a book for ages.The story line is convoluted, with intrigue, rivalry and politics - like life then. I you stick with it then a good read. Having said th...
Titus Groan is considered by many to be a masterpiece of the literature of the fantastic. I don't think that I can argue with that assessment. However, I can say that it's a masterpiece that I certainly wasn't pleased to be reading for much of the time I was doing so. The primary reason for this was...
Few books leave a lasting impact on me. But this one, Titus Groan will stay with me for a long time. Mervyn Peake's writing style blew me away. Once I put the book down I could not stop thinking about it. If I had indeed some aspiration to become an author, Peake's writing style would be the one I w...
bookshelves: radio-4, published-1946, summer-2011, fantasy, gothic, kiddlewinks, play-dramatisation, classic Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brazilliant Laura Recommended for: R4 listeners Read from July 07 to August 01, 2011 Sunday Classic Serial - this is like Dickens on a high dose of something ...
This is a deeply weird book it is difficult to describe or categorize. In the introduction, Anthony Burgess, who calls it a "modern classic," comparable to other celebrated British works of the 1940s such as those by Orwell or Waugh, says there "is no really close relative to it in all our prose lit...
I've been (re-)reading Mervyn Peake, [a:Jack Vance|5376|Jack Vance|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1207604643p2/5376.jpg], and [a:Robert Silverberg|4338|Robert Silverberg|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1366300348p2/4338.jpg], all at the same time. I was surprised by the similarity between Vance and S...
"Why break the heart that never beat from love?" - Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan Titus Groan is the first book in the infamous Gormenghast "trilogy" (that is now four books long) by Mervyn Peake. I'm sure that many of you have not heard of it. In my experience of working in a bookstore I find that nobo...
This is a hard book to digest and a hard book to review. My first impressions was that is was a fantasy set in a medieval realm (think Lord of the Rings) but the book is definitely much more strange and complex. Set in Gormenghast castle, the world is filled with rituals and traditions that have b...
Titus Groan is a novel that defies classification yet it is one hundred percent powerfully written and one hundred percent a classic. It is however not for those who don't like to patiently sit through a long, description driven narrative. But for those who appreciate those elements in a work of fic...
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