# bee's Gormenghast, alga's gormenGhastly *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 28 Jun 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *28 Jun 2001, 08:01* > bee wrote: > I hadn't imagined that my negative opinion of the show would be as > controversial as it turned out to be. Here's another of my opinions. I don't > think it's controversial, but here goes: Titus Groan and Gormenghast (i.e. > the books on which the show is based), are classics and everyone on this > list would enjoy them immensely. And alga, she found the show Ghastly, unwatchable. Ha-ha! I found the book unreadable twelve years ago, abandoning it soon after the library fire; yet I found the tv show (first half, so far) quite entertaining, at times I laughed out loud. I was hesitant to watch it at all, since I didn't like the book, but I also remembered how I didn't like the most-recent, live-action ALICE IN WONDERLAND (with Martin Short as Mad Hatter) when it first ran on tv, yet I liked it when I saw the thing on video . . . which made me suspect that the commercial interruptions were what was really bothering me the most. Different people, different tastes--as usual. =mantis= Sirius Fiction Has Moved To http://www.siriusfiction.com/ --- ### Alex David Groce *28 Jun 2001, 13:08 · follows Michael Andre-Driussi* mantis said: > Ha-ha! I found the book unreadable twelve years ago, abandoning it > soon after the library fire; yet I found the tv show (first half, so > far) quite entertaining, at times I laughed out loud. Hmmm... You might want to give it another try--it's been five years now, but I recall my interest rising considerably at some point after the fire. _Titus Groan_ has the considerable virtue of containing the best "now it's personal" fight scene in all of fantasy literature. I liked both _Titus Groan_ and _Gormenghast_ and still took considerably longer to get through them that I do most books of that length--I had to mix them with other reading to avoid overdosing on whatever it is about Peake... ``` "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 -- Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu) Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department 8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce ``` ---