3 quoted lines · 1–2 deep
At 8:01 AM -0700 6/28/01, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:
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.
I did enjoy the Gormenghast books immensely. Well, the first two, but I even enjoyed Titus Alone, just not as much. (That ending!)
For all the rest of you who did enjoy the Gormenghast trilogy, there is a novella about Titus as a young boy called "Boy in Darkness" which is, in my opinion, as good as the best bits of the novels. It actually takes place away from Gormenghast, for the most part. It can be found in the book, Peake's Progress which is a huge (576 pages) collection of Peake's other writings and drawings, which is still in print. It was also published in a collection of three novellas called
Sometime, Never: Three Tales of Imagination (Envoy Extraordinary; Consider Her Ways; Boy in Darkness) by William Golding, John Wyndham and Mervyn Peake and by itself as Boy in Darkness. Both of these latter books seem to be out of print.
3 quoted lines
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 haven't seen the program yet; I am taping the second half now and will watch it all (or enough to satisfy myself of its unwatchablity) this weekend.
1 quoted line
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.
I disliked that recent Alice medley (why do they always insist on mixing events from both books together?) quite a bit when I saw it on tv. Perhaps I should give it another chance. Perhaps.
1 quoted line
Different people, different tastes--as usual.
Indeed.
William Ansley