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A reader posted a review at 2009-11-04 09:24:42.
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I look forward to book three, after having really enjoyed the first two installments. The prose in these books is really phenomenal: Peake is a wordsmith, to be sure.
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Richard posted a review at 2009-05-02 10:00:24.
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A compelling masterpiece. The characters are so well defined, the plot intricate and still relatively simple to follow, helped largely by Peake's amazing control over language. About as fantastic as it gets.
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A reader posted a review at 2008-12-12 10:18:24.
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Peake is an absolute master of language. Reading the book is like eating an entire raspberry cheesecake but never feeling like you've had too much.
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A reader posted a review at 2008-11-25 20:03:21.
(Language: English)
I'm still recalling the end of Titus Groan where he drops the family heirlooms into the lake. :D Titus at age 7 has got to be amusing!
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Leah posted a review at 2008-11-16 13:22:56.
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v. purple but mind-blowingly awesome and obsessive.
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A reader posted a review at 2008-11-05 17:28:26.
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The most original and fantastic book since Wuthering Heights. Full of everything grim and macabre, black... not like any other book - you should not miss this one. Honestly.
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Curt posted a review at 2008-11-01 14:08:23.
(Language: English)
Peake's Gormenghast series should be on the reading list of every serious fantasy fan. His descriptive writing is superb, and the combination of quirky, likable, and yet absurdly grotesque characters and gothic setting are truly unique. This book continues the adventures of the survivors from the cast of characters introduced in Titus Groan. It builds on the strengths of Book I, within the framework of a more conventional plot (with Titus as the protagonist and a much less ambiguous Steerpike as the villain). An assortment of professors are introduced as new characters to provide comic relief and an opportunity to observe Titus' growth and development. I found it a bit of a slow read, (which is not to deny that there are several amazingly compelling scenes, ranging from the magical pageantry of Titus' birthday masque to the pulse-pounding pursuit of Steerpike through the labyrinthine passages of the castle). But it's a book where the reader's persistence is rewarded in a big way. The Prunesquallors' soiree and subsequent love scene in the garden provided one of the funniest interludes I can remember reading in any book, ever.
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A reader posted a review at 2008-09-20 04:35:27.
(Language: English)
This second book in the Gormenghast trilogy once again sees Peak's characteristic mix of heart-rendering poetry and sarcastic realism. His humour only becomes more dark and cheeky. He has the audacity to make you laugh out loud at the corpses of two retarded women and furthermore feel a kinship with the sociopath Steerpike who killed them. And while his description of the forest can make you weep, his handling of the dead will hardly raise an eyebrow unless it's accompanied by a laugh or two. Titus Groan gave readers a taste of the expanse of rooftop over city-sized Gormenghast castle. Now Peake takes the reader into the 'Hollow Halls' forgotten wings, underground mazes and subterranean tunnels, possibly the greatest feat of architecture in literature. It is worth reading the book for the blueprints alone.Peake once again mixes fantasy and realism with fluidly. Gormenghast maintains the strength and pace of Titus Groan without redundancy. I recommend it to almost anyone who is literate.
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A reader posted a review at 2008-09-18 02:38:54.
(Language: English)
I love this this book and the others in the trilogy, a dark and clever social satire that was both funny and disturbing. The characters are so vivid and 3 dimentional, I couldn't but this down
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A reader posted a review at 2008-09-13 16:27:50.
(Language: English)
One of the most wicked and maccabre series books I have ever read. The flow of text has you dazzled from the beginning and every character is created vividly in your mind as soon as they are intergrated into the story. If you have never heard of or read these books and like something thats both gothic and comic this is a must read for you!!!
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