[identity profile] j4.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] atreic.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
I read the first chapter of the third one, and gave up.

[identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] j4.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] sparrowsion 2005-07-08 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
recreationaal chemicals

More like a second nervous breakdown and Parkinson's.

[identity profile] yrieithydd.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
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 ... .

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
PS. Was the conversation relevent[1] or just "did you like"? Or did someone bring their near-Peake-slain rabbit to you?

[identity profile] ghoti.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I should read it, no?

[identity profile] ceb.livejournal.com 2005-07-08 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent to terrible over the course of 3 books (well, actually more like (1) excellent (2) really very good (3) pardon?).

[identity profile] tienelle.livejournal.com 2005-07-10 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
I gave up about a hundred pages into the first book. Gormenghast seemed like an interesting enough setting, but the writing was awful.