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  "thread": {
    "id": 2705,
    "subject": "Gormeghast",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-06-29T08:26:22+00:00",
    "last": "2001-06-29T08:26:22+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0522@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Russell Wodell",
        "address": "hse at telus.net"
      },
      "date": "2001-06-29T08:26:22+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Gormeghast",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "There is an excellent BBC book, \"The Art of Gormeghast,\" about the making of\nthe series. In fact, it's in my opinion _better_ than the series, because it\nallows the reader to feast on the extraordinary art direction without the\ntedium of watching the series. Well, maybe it's not fair to call it\n\"tedium.\" The problem, IMHO, is that the adaptation is too successful: it\ncaptures the unique slow-motion grotesquery of Peake soo faithfully that it\nbecomes quite remarkably unpleasant.\n\nAnd, of course, in case there was any doubt, it makes it indisputably clear\nthat Peake was a direct influence on The Book of the New Sun. (Imagine\n_that_ as a mini-series!)\n\nAbout eight years ago or so, there was an equally remarkable tv version of\nPeake's \"Mr. Pye,\" starring Derek Jacobi as the protagonist who moves to the\nIsle of Sark to found a new religion. He is disturbed to discover he is\ngrowing wings...so behaves less well, and discovers he is growing horns....\nLike \"Boy in Darkness,\" it is essentially a good-humored attack on\nChristianity quite daunting in its ferocity."
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