I'm now convinced that the Professors had a big influence on the Terry Pratchetts unseen university. The characters and scenes are so vivid and memorable, i would say its a lot funnier than the first book but the humour is almost entirely concentrated on the Professors and doesn't really spread elsewhere, which again adds to the fragmentary nature of the tale. The last quarter however is much more solid than the rest. I know it takes place over a much greater time period than the first book but its not the large time movements which are the problem, but rather the small incident to incident transitions. However it does feel like there are too many time gaps between chapters and almost seems unfinished in places. I mostly remember the plot of the Titus Groan but had forgotten Peakes' beautiful style. The author does a great job reintroducing everyone and recapping the first book. Well i think the best word to describe this. This is as good as it gets." â?Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews … ( more) You'll finish it with a small spike of regret stabbing at your heart, and a desire to start again at page one the moment the back cover is closed. " Gormenghast is must-read fiction, that's all.
The Gormenghast Trilogy ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. Gormenghast is the second volume in Mervyn Peake's widely acclaimed trilogy, but it is much more than a sequel to Titus Groanâ?it is an enrichment and deepening of that book. Steerpike, who began his climb across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascending the spiral staircase to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie imprisonment, manipulation, and murder.
A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death. Titus Groan is seven years old, lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A young earl's future in a sprawling castle could be changed by a feral girl and a cunning servant in this acclaimed gothic fantasy trilogy's second entry.
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