Gormenghast series

[Anonymous No.14538170]

What am I in for, lads? Bloom said this was better than LOTR.

[Anonymous No.14538278]

>>14538170
just read it faggot

[Anonymous No.14539146]

>>14538170
Bloom is dead, his opinion is irrelevant. Only the opinions of the living matter

[Anonymous No.14539227]

Depends what you want. If you want an exciting adventure, it’s not that. If you want a well-written (better-written than LOTR, but a lot more baroque), atmospheric satire full of grotesques who don’t really do a lot but are weirdly compelling and sort of funny, you’ll probably like it.

[Anonymous No.14539273]

>>14539146
Holy fucking shit bloom died. Had to Google it. I've been out of the country a lot since September and totally missed it.

[Anonymous No.14539331]

>>14539273
Yeah he finally keeled over. It wasn't so much of a shocker for me because he was nearing 90 years of age.

[Anonymous No.14539365]

>>14539146
It's the other way around. Only the opinions of the dead matter.

[Anonymous No.14539374]

>>14539273
Good night, sweet prince.

[Anonymous No.14539445]

>>14539374
I wonder what Bloom would have thought of NGE. Which Shakespeare play would he have compared it to?

[Anonymous No.14539450]

>>14539445
The Tempest

[Anonymous No.14539479]

>>14539374
did he return to Saturn to be with the other Jews?

[Anonymous No.14539499]

>>14539479
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[Anonymous No.14539530]

>>14539146
Why?

[Anonymous No.14539636]

>>14538170
It's fucking beautiful. 90% of its worth lies in that, and that's a worthy enough place for it to be.

You'll have to pretty quickly get over the fact that the characters are all stupid. It's rare to read a smart book almost exclusively about stupid people, but the people of Gormenghast are a special kind of medieval-peasant stupid that barely exists anymore, and not at all in the West.

If you find it's getting to alien to grasp, read up a bit on Mervyn Peakes life. He grew up in a compound in China before it was Commie, and a lot of his understanding of things comes from that.

[Anonymous No.14539672]

>>14539636
prunesquallor and steerpike aren't stupid

[Anonymous No.14539687]

>>14539672
Not exactly, but their decision-making capabilities are pretty damn shoddy. They're largely operating on the same ridiculous, infectious internal logic that suffuses the castle. Steerpike ducks it at first, but eventually it infects him. And prunesquallor tries to remain at an ironic distance from it, but he never manages to overcome it when he really needs to.

[Anonymous No.14539702]

>>14539687
fair enough interesting take

[Anonymous No.14540730]

>>14538170
Always wanted to get into this. A kind German man gave me a few of these books when I was younger

[Anonymous No.14541183]

>>14538170
the prose is outstanding, but other than that it's quite forgettable imo.
basically it's a well-written, but uneventful book.
style over substance maybe

[Anonymous No.14541191]

>>14538170
It's shit.

You were Jewed.

[Anonymous No.14541242]

>>14538170
diminishing returns
first book is awesome
second one is good
third one ruins it

[Anonymous No.14541315]

>>14539374
My 2019 is henceforth retroavtively ruined.

[Anonymous No.14542341]

Loved all three books.

[Anonymous No.14542814]

>>14538170
Why don't you read it and start a thread about it once you're done.

[Anonymous No.14543741]

>>14541191