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Post by brooks on Oct 12, 2012 16:49:14 GMT -5
I will have to check that out, sounds good.
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Post by adcooper on Oct 12, 2012 18:12:02 GMT -5
(Psssst! Bara! Can we give them a hint, such as, the title makes me laugh? Just let me know if I should not mention that.)
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Post by Bara on Oct 12, 2012 19:39:39 GMT -5
Not Mary Poppins! Not ravens, Claire.. owls. Give as many clues as you wish, Ann, but I fear that you may have to begin reading.
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Post by Bara on Oct 24, 2012 0:38:52 GMT -5
There's a clue in the flight plan suggested by George Clooney...  |
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Post by Goalie on Oct 24, 2012 11:20:19 GMT -5
off to look at Georges plan
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Post by brooks on Oct 24, 2012 14:05:24 GMT -5
;D ;D
Mervyn Peake
The series consists of three novels, Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), and Titus Alone (1959). A novella, Boy in Darkness (1956), tells the story of a brief adventure by the young Titus away from Gormenghast, although it does not explicitly name the castle.
Peake had intended to write a series of books following Titus Groan through his life, as well as detailing his relationship with Gormenghast. At least two other books, tentatively titled Titus Awakes and Gormenghast Revisited, were planned; but Parkinson's disease and Peake's ensuing death at age 57 prevented him from writing down more than a few hundred words and ideas for further volumes. Only three pages of Titus Awakes were coherently written, and these appear in the Overlook Press edition of Titus Alone (ISBN 0-87951-427-2) and in the omnibus volume (ISBN 0-87951-628-3).
In the 1970s, Peake's widow Maeve Gilmore wrote her version of Titus Awakes, which she called Search without End. The Peake family rediscovered this novel at the end of 2009 and it was published by Overlook Press as Titus Awakes: The Lost Book of Gormenghast. to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Peake's birth.[1]
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Post by adcooper on Oct 24, 2012 15:29:24 GMT -5
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Post by niaru on Oct 24, 2012 18:04:27 GMT -5
Congrats Brooks!
So is it a good read? I just left 13th century Wales (sobsniff) ...need a change of scenery...
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Post by adcooper on Oct 25, 2012 4:04:03 GMT -5
No idea. I am so buried in other work and reading right now. Bara has given me an incomplete for this course. I expect to start the book in later 2013.
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Post by brooks on Oct 25, 2012 14:45:23 GMT -5
Next.................J.M. wrote over 40 books, many sagas.
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Post by Bara on Oct 26, 2012 3:54:39 GMT -5
Absolutely, Claire! Well done, Brooks! It's a change of scene to a dark fantasy land; but a fascinating one. When I was a teenager, I wanted to be Fuschia. I wanted her attic. Luckily, it never did come true. I'd like you to meet Titus, Sepulgrave, The Countess and her cats and birds; the Hall of Bright Carvings, the Prunesquallers, the headmaster, The Twins ... And Steerpike. Welcome to Gormenghast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2UTPombvgc |
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Post by Bara on Apr 23, 2013 6:51:32 GMT -5
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps on July its petty pace..." Ann.
Mixing metaphors. As t'were....
(I think you may like it.)
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Post by brooks on Apr 24, 2013 13:35:07 GMT -5
 Still waiting for my prize money, You said ONE MILLION!!!!!!!!!
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Post by niaru on Apr 24, 2013 18:33:17 GMT -5
One million Cyber high fives!
Hehehe
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Post by Bara on Apr 25, 2013 11:53:40 GMT -5
;D Whoo.. thanks Claire! Ann's book is on its way. I'm hoping she will be shamed into starting it ...
Which reminds me, Brooks. Did 'The Secret Garden' ever arrive?
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