Mervyn Peake
Paperback | Pages: 252 pages Rating: 3.45 | 4274 Users | 283 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Titus Alone |
| ISBN: | 0749394870 (ISBN13: 9780749394875) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Gormenghast #3 |
| Characters: | Titus Groan |
| Setting: | Gormenghast |
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In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy. But there are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.Mention Appertaining To Books Titus Alone (Gormenghast #3)
| Title | : | Titus Alone (Gormenghast #3) |
| Author | : | Mervyn Peake |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 252 pages |
| Published | : | February 5th 1998 by Vintage Books (first published 1959) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Classics. Gothic |
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The last book in the Gormenghast series was sadly a big let down for me, although I loved the peculiarity of first two books in the series, but things got a lot weird and meaningless for me in this book. Also out of the characters introduced to us in the first two, we have only Titus for company, but sadly he also become a completely unidentifiable character in this book.Some of the weak points of the book are1.Story went no where.2.Characters not well cast out.3.Unsatisfactory ending.Let meMervyn Peake, with 1970's "Titus Alone", seemingly (to me only) lays the foundation for the action thriller, "Mad Max" which was released in 1979 but I must point out that the director (George Miller) and the producer (Kennedy) used an original screenplay based on the world's oil crisis of the 1970s. (More on that shortly.*) "Titus Alone" is a far different type of novel than "Titus Groan" (5 star rating from me) and "Gormenghast" (also a 5 star rating from me, and I've given only a few authors
3.5 that I'm rounding up because the trilogy as a whole was awesome this book just didn't have the same magic as the first two.
Titus Alone loses a bit of the magic that Titus Groan and Gormenghast offer, but the language alone makes it worth a read.Peake created a fascinating world, and a trilogy that I especially recommend to other writers: these books show that you can do whatever you want with words. A revelation, really.I wrote this article about the Gormenghast novels.
While in the first 400 pages of the cycle, Peake does something special with language, not entirely new, but nearing perfection, and in the second 400 his creation turns into something *massive*, its not until these last 250 pages that his creation becomes truly *ambitious*, that favorite quality of mine. Though this book feels like a brief sketch of what could have been had his brain not been wracked by dementia, it is still more than just the mere makings of something great. Having dragged
This book achieves the rare feat of making the other books in the series feel worse on reflection. Titus, it turns out, is an utterly unlikable pill of a human being who, despite his lack of redeeming qualities and a general attitude of entitled unpleasantness, finds a number of people more than willing to risk life, limb and livelihood to befriend, love and help him for no discernible reason. These encounters are monotonous in their unbelievable convenience for our despicable protagonist. Such
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