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Titus Awakes: The Lost Book Of Gormenghast (1972)

by Maeve Gilmore(Favorite Author)

3.16 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

159020428X (ISBN13: 9781590204283)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Overlook Press

series

Gormenghast

review 1: Oh dear - some things should just be left alone. In the spirit of Titus Alone (rather than the first two books) but without most of its redeeming features. Bitty (a kinder word would be episodic)and rather pointless. The only real interest lies in the last few pages where Titus journeys to what is clearly Sark -Peake's home. Just as it starts to get interesting, it stops. Less than 24 hours after finishing reading I'd be hard pressed to remember any narrative details. Nice trybut it should have been a short story
review 2: One hates to complain about what was clearly a labor of love--Maeve's earnest attempt to write for Mervyn the book he couldn't write himself--but the book isn't very good. The episodic plot is all right, and sometimes the conversations are go... moreod. But the writing style is not good: sometimes ponderous in the way of a very young writer (which Maeve was not), sometimes simply cliched. This labor of love should have remained something for the family to treasure and kept away from the public. less

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