Gormenghast Trilogy (Audio): Gormenghast Lib/E (Series #2) (CD-Audio)

from wirkman

This second volume it the Gormenghast Trilogy is as fine as the first, and together they make a good pair, a classic pair, a work of perfection. Consider the third volume a sequel, and the main tale as covered in "Titus Groan" and "Gormenghast." Oddly, the title of the first would have better cov...

from ragwaine

It doesn't have some of the big elements that I really enjoy in stories. There was really only one fantastic element in the book and though it was a bit of a tragedy it wasn't tragic enough to pull at my heartstrings. I definitely enjoyed it more than the first book but I may have read the first ...

from dmsteyn

'... when, before a masterpiece, the acid throat contracts, and words are millstones...' - p.535 of the Illustrated Trilogy 'Words are millstones' - too true, and Peake's Gormenghast, being a masterpiece, presents one with an equally weighty task when trying to review it. The second book in what ...

from LisaMaria_C

Gormenghast is the middle part of a trilogy, and you should read Titus Groan first if you haven't already. It took me a long time to warm up to Titus Groan and I only got hooked about half-way through. At first I didn't like any of the characters, and Peake's style is forbidding at times. The pac...

from dorotheabaker

I was looking for something new to read and found the 2nd volume of the Gormenghast trilogy in my bookshelf. I had to start with that, because I didn't seem to own a copy of the first or last volumes (which I've now reserved from the library). The thing that made me impatient to start reading it,...