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  "thread": {
    "id": 2703,
    "subject": "Gormenghast: Beyond the Trilogy",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-06-28T23:23:09+00:00",
    "last": "2001-06-28T23:23:09+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0520@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "William Ansley",
        "address": "wansley at warwick.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-28T23:23:09+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Gormenghast: Beyond the Trilogy",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 8:01 AM -0700 6/28/01, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:\nbee wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "I hadn't imagined that my negative opinion of the show would be as\ncontroversial as it turned out to be. Here's another of my opinions. I don't\nthink it's controversial, but here goes: Titus Groan and Gormenghast (i.e.\nthe books on which the show is based), are classics and everyone on this\nlist would enjoy them immensely."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I did enjoy the Gormenghast books immensely. Well, the first two, but \nI even enjoyed _Titus Alone_, just not as much. (That ending!)\n\nFor all the rest of you who did enjoy the Gormenghast trilogy, there \nis a novella about Titus as a young boy called \"Boy in Darkness\" \nwhich is, in my opinion, as good as the best bits of the novels. It \nactually takes place away from Gormenghast, for the most part. It can \nbe found in the book, _Peake's Progress_ which is a huge (576 pages) \ncollection of Peake's other writings and drawings, which is still in \nprint. It was also published in a collection of three novellas called \n_Sometime, Never: Three Tales of Imagination (Envoy Extraordinary; \nConsider Her Ways; Boy in Darkness)_ by William Golding, John Wyndham \nand Mervyn Peake and by itself as _Boy in Darkness_. Both of these \nlatter books seem to be out of print."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "And alga, she found the show Ghastly, unwatchable.\n\nHa-ha!  I found the book unreadable twelve years ago, abandoning it soon\nafter the library fire; yet I found the tv show (first half, so far) quite\nentertaining, at times I laughed out loud."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I haven't seen the program yet; I am taping the second half now and \nwill watch it all (or enough to satisfy myself of its unwatchablity) \nthis weekend."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I was hesitant to watch it at all, since I didn't like the book, but I also\nremembered how I didn't like the most-recent, live-action ALICE IN\nWONDERLAND (with Martin Short as Mad Hatter) when it first ran on tv, yet I\nliked it when I saw the thing on video . . . which made me suspect that the\ncommercial interruptions were what was really bothering me the most."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I disliked that recent _Alice_ medley (why do they always insist on \nmixing events from both books together?) quite a bit when I saw it on \ntv. Perhaps I should give it another chance. Perhaps."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Different people, different tastes--as usual."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Indeed."
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "William Ansley"
        }
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