/lit/ - Literature

Truly, there is no greater world to get lost in in this one you live in. About 5000 years of lore is enough for 5000 lifetimes and more to get lost in. That said I really like the Gormenghast series for Peake. Even for an experienced reader it's easy to get lost in Peake's writing style, and you can really tell he loved the world he created himself.

What does /lit/ think of the Gormenghast books?

>>9280491
>Gormenghast
looks pretty cool anon

Name one (1) better fantasy book series

you can't

"If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing - flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it. High-shouldered to a degree little short of malformation, slender and adroit of limb and frame, his eyes close-set and the colour of dried blood, he is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings..."