Started reading Gormenghast trilogy - the writing is luxurious: The thin bands of moted light edging their way through the shutters barred his dark head with the brilliance of the outer world.
Just⦠wow.
Started reading Gormenghast trilogy - the writing is luxurious: The thin bands of moted light edging their way through the shutters barred his dark head with the brilliance of the outer world.
Just⦠wow.
When I mentioned outlandish metaphor, I mean this kind of thing. Sentences that take you in gloriously unexpected directions even in gratuitous asides
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The baleful mood extends, of course, to the landscape around the castle:
"Ahead lay Gormenghast Mountain in all its permanence, a sinister thing as though drawn out of the earth by sorcery as a curse on all who viewed it."
Smiles don't come easily to the people of Gormenghast
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Gormenghast Book 1: Titus Groan
It's a book filled with fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles!
https://chasingdings.com/2025/10/31/gormenghast-book-1-titus-groan/
10 Fantasy Books With Beautiful Prose That Reads Like Poetry
These fantasy authors could hang with the finest mead hall bards of old.
https://www.themarysue.com/10-fantasy-books-with-beautiful-prose-that-reads-like-poetry/
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Not Gormenghast
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/not-gormenghast-justin-farrimond.html
This is no flight of fancy in stone, no Gormenghast or literary folly, this chapel of ease exists because of single minded determination.
A kirk by a loch, but do you know where?
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I donβt think I ever finished all of the books; it just ground me down! π
Β« Gormenghast Β», 1968
by Bob Pepper (american illustrator, 1938-2019)
Cover illustration for Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast Trilogy", Ballantine Books, 1968
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