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When I say "Gormenghast Trilogy", I should probably confess that I've never actually read the third one (Titus Alone). But I enjoyed the first two.

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I read the first chapter of the third one, and gave up.

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I read the entirety of the third one. It's quite hard work, really.

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Good move; one and two are excellent, but by volume 3 Mr Peake was clearly on some very strong recreationaal chemicals. It's, er, interesting, but far from essential reading.

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clearly on some very strong recreationaal chemicals

Um, actually, I think by the time he wrote it he was in the later stages of Parkinson's disease...

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recreationaal chemicals

More like a second nervous breakdown and Parkinson's.

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Other -- hard to get into. I've been told it's good, but I started reading it during my MPhil and didn't get that far because it was far too much effort and didn't grip me enough to want to read on and on or even to feel a particular desire to read it when it was fairly late and time to sleep (when most of my reading occurs!). Thus I never got anywhere with it. It is one of a small number of unfinished books for me! But people whose judgement I trust have told me it's worth the effort so ... .

Other for the second -- Epistle of St Paul to ... .

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I've only read the first one, but thought you'd prefer me to vote anyway. I found it hard to get into, though perhaps no more so than other books commonly liked and/or that I've since come to love, but did very much enjoy it afterward.

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