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Posted: 7/2/15 at 10:12pm
Has anyone else other than me read this book series, seen the short-lived BBC television adaptation, or the rarely produced stage play (and never-produced opera)? I don't know why- some people find it insufferable, pretentious and tortuous, but I couldn't get enough of the macabre, decadent dourness of the Gormenghast universe and its peculiar characters.
The only trouble is, Gormenghast has become more famous as a metaphor for an insular, bizarre and somewhat redundant world than as the piece of literature that inspired it. So nobody I know has read it- and the one person I convinced to read it handed it back to me a week later, saying "this is worse than cancer" (direct quote).
That said, the Off-Topic board here tends to be kind of erudite, so I figured I'd bring it up here. (That, and I'm temporarily shadowbanned from posting on Reddit due to sharing the same IP address with a porn performer who spammed the site with her pictures.) Any Gormenghast acolytes on BWW?
The only trouble is, Gormenghast has become more famous as a metaphor for an insular, bizarre and somewhat redundant world than as the piece of literature that inspired it. So nobody I know has read it- and the one person I convinced to read it handed it back to me a week later, saying "this is worse than cancer" (direct quote).
That said, the Off-Topic board here tends to be kind of erudite, so I figured I'd bring it up here. (That, and I'm temporarily shadowbanned from posting on Reddit due to sharing the same IP address with a porn performer who spammed the site with her pictures.) Any Gormenghast acolytes on BWW?
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