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A review by cally_mac
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
4.0
Everything about this book is so beautifully and gothically realised. It's pretty clear that Mervyn Peake obviously just loved words and had the same reasons for writing as Tolkien: that there was simply no way he couldn't create a world, and that publication or anything else was incidental to that.
Plot wise, it felt less like a novel but more like serialised instalments in an open-ended and lengthy saga, which I guess is what it is.
My favourite characters are still Fuschia Groan and Sourdust but I will add Sepulchrave Groan to the list because of his constant, unending melancholy and because I think that if someone burned all my books I'd probably start to turn into an owl as well.
Plot wise, it felt less like a novel but more like serialised instalments in an open-ended and lengthy saga, which I guess is what it is.
My favourite characters are still Fuschia Groan and Sourdust but I will add Sepulchrave Groan to the list because of his constant, unending melancholy and because I think that if someone burned all my books I'd probably start to turn into an owl as well.