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bannedfrombookclub 's review for:
Titus Groan
by Mervyn Peake
dark
reflective
slow-paced
This book, all 21:34 hours of it, was visualised -against my will- as a Tim Burton stop motion film in my head.
Storygraph needs a "weird" mood checkbox for books like this. This was definately an experience and I can see why it's become influential to certain set of writers.
Description of place, atmosphere, and character are prime here and the plot, such as it is, unspools purely through scenes of this cast of Dickensian weirdos going about their strange insular lives. It's a real change of pace to modern fantasy and there's a dark absuridst streak the British are particularly good at.
Storygraph needs a "weird" mood checkbox for books like this. This was definately an experience and I can see why it's become influential to certain set of writers.
Description of place, atmosphere, and character are prime here and the plot, such as it is, unspools purely through scenes of this cast of Dickensian weirdos going about their strange insular lives. It's a real change of pace to modern fantasy and there's a dark absuridst streak the British are particularly good at.