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| Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:11 PM |
| Book Report: Titus Groan |
 by Fëanor |
I finally finished the first of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels the other day. My original impressions still stand - the novel continues throughout to be an incredible exercise in world-building, language-play, character development, and description. It is very long, and it does drag a bit every once in a while, but it actually does have a plot in which quite a lot happens. There's romance, murder, suicide, and intrigue; humor, terror, tragedy, and mysticisim. And everything proceeds with a sense of inevitability and Doom.
So yeah, it's not exactly a barrel of fun - it's actually quite dark and depressing. And it's certainly not a book I'd recommend trying to read a lot of all at once. But I found it an impressive and uniqe work full of creative genius, and I've already started the sequel. |
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