Gormenghast Audiobook

" Even more bizarre than Titus Groan. It flows along, seeming to make sense in its own odd way and suddenly reverses itself. Everything changes in an abrupt sentence, leaving me to re-read the relevant part over and over to assure myself that it actually said what it seemed to. Very rich. Full of haunting imagery. "

" Moody, murky Gormenghast, with your echoing corridors and vivid inhabitants: you have haunted and taunted me for three (four?) years now. Forgive me if I strut and crow for a time over your at-long-last vanquished pages! I don't doubt but I shall succumb to your melancholy siren song again in years to come. Know that you have a fervent admirer in me, however erratic my attendance. "

" It is perhaps wrong of me to wish that Steerpike had triumphed.... "

" I loved this book. It continues the Dickensian mode of the first book but with a steadily increasing sense of unease. The characters continue to develop and move off the page. Steerpike is one of the great villains of literature. His machinations are horrifying and inevitable as is his ultimate fate. The story should have stopped with this book since it is entirely satisfying. "

" First book is best. A really unique author. "

" Lush. Strange. It doesn't make sense, but it's so vivid. He doesn't so much build a plot as a world, from the ground up; Gormenthast *is* the story. I go back to it again and again. Can't read the third in the series, though, it's too mad. "

" one day...i will finish this...butnot soon :) "

" Perhaps less narratively tight than Titus Groan, but what does it matter when you have five hundred pages in which to luxuriate (and/or wallow) in the swamps and flooded corridors of Castle Gormenghast? "

" Captivating. These books draw you into the dark and disturbing world of Titus Groan. "

" As weird and as briliant as ever. A slightly broader sweep that Titus Groan which gives it a more Dickensian feel. High comedy v. intense drama. Titus is still a terrible prig ttough - no wonder Steerpike is more interesting. "

" This book, as far as my tastes are concerned, had far too much script dealing with Irma Prunesquallor, and a bunch of insipid professors. Many parts, I feel, had absolutely nothing to do with anything. That said, the prose was still brilliant. "

" It might be blasphemous to say, but I think Titus Groan was better. Still, Gormenghast is incredible in many ways. The reintroduction of Mr. Flay, the professors, the entire Steerpike saga ... and, of course, the great flood. "

" Probably my favourite of the trilogy. "

" I tried. I really tried. Reading his writing is like trying to swim through glue. "

" Beautifully written with such absorbing descriptions. Bizarre and sometimes strangely humorous it really is a joy to read. One of my all time favourite books. "

" I liked this one much better than Titus Groan (the first book in the trilogy). It was still longer than it had any need to be, but at least this time I felt like there was a story. "

" I like this one a little less than TITUS GROAN. I think it's because it spends too much time with characters I don't like as much. "

" Depending on your level of tolerance for Peake's style, you either think it's a stone cold masterpiece or give up about 60 pages in, as I have learnt to my chagrin over many years of attempting to force people to read this book. It is a stone cold masterpiece. "

" Reads like fantasy although there is no magic whatsoever. Every page is a reverie. "