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    <body><![CDATA[The Gormenghast Trilogy is amazing. I don't know whether it's because it was written by an artist, but it is without a doubt the most painterly novel I've ever read. Peake's use of language incredibly beautiful and visual. Steerpike becomes so malignantly evil in the book, at some points I could onl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38651203">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More entertaining than book one. The series reaches near perfection with this second book. Titus grows up and decides he doesn't want to become a slave to the insane traditions of Gormenghast, which is not only an enormous castle but an obsessively compulsive society. He tries to break away. Steerpi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79740136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At Gormenghast castle--a castle so sprawling and gargantuan that huge sections have fallen into disrepair and been forgotten entirely; a castle where the Queen wanders the halls silently with hundreds of white cats following her; a castle where everyone (almost everyone) follows rituals so old that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76515624">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I didn’t enjoy this novel as much as I did the preceding one (Titus Groan).  It wasn’t bad, necessarily, and in parts I was fairly captivated, but overall it just lacked the spark.  I think it’s mostly because this novel is a coming of age story for a heroic character as opposed to a vil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70625031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Peake's highly visual style is captivating.  The books are a marvelous, sprawling exploration of vivid characters and themes.<br/><br/>Well, that's what I wrote about <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39058.The_Gormenghast_Novels_Titus_Groan_Gormenghast_Titus_Alone">the trilogy</a>.  Unlike that omnibus edition, this Ballantine has a section of litho plates (I guess — I'm no printer), detailed por...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40363871">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ 	  The Gormenghast books are considered to be the beginning of the 'mannerpunk' genre, and along with Tolkien, Moorecock, and Howard, Peake is one of the fathers of the modern Fantasy genre. Mannerpunk is a genre typified by complex psychology, plots driven by character interaction, and a strong se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57630899">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Gormenghast &ndash; a word that fills the mouth, that undulates with waves of <br/>hard and soft, that tricks the tongue into thinking it can escape with a fading <br/>sibilance, only to be brought to heel hard fast with that final &#39;t&#39;. It is a <br/>magnificent word for the sprawling <em>thing</em> Mervyn Peake...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45012200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Après avoir été complètement happée par l’atmosphère de Titus d’Enfer, j’ai retrouvé le château de Gormenghast et ses personnages fantasmagoriques avec le même plaisir. A tel point que je n’ai pas grand-chose à ajouter à ma chronique du premier tome de la trilogie. On est dans la ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34114290">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;'Let us take it that you *are* in pain,' continued Shred, 'Let us work on that hypothesis as a basis: that Bellgrove, a man of somewhere between sixty and eighty, is in pain.  Or rather, he *thinks* he is.  One must be exact.  As a man of science, I insist on exactitude.  Well, then, what next...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32698803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is highly recommended in 501 MUST READ BOOKS and many other places.  The thing is, no one can quite describe it.  Is it a fantasy? Is it an allegory?  Reviewers cite amazing characters over and over.  I listened to the first 40 minutes of it while running today, and the language is stunnin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13572073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49162170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[series only getting better. language is increasingly stunning and dreamlike, and yet i really related to the characters, despite them being so hauntingly surreal. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book 2 of the Gormenghast Trilogy.  A very odd series of books about the biggest castle in the world and it's crazy inhabitants.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let me start by saying I'd give this 4 and a half stars (not possible here) but ONLY because it doesn't have some of the big elements that I really enjoy in stories.  There was really only one fantastic element in the book and though it was a bit of a tragedy it wasn't tragic enough to pull at my he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1262461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A big, juicy book to last a long plane ride and many hours by the beach.  Compared to Lord of the Rings.  This should do it!]]></body>
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