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cheezvshcrvst 's review for:
Gormenghast
by Mervyn Peake
3.5/5 : by no means an entertainment, and by every means a devastating and masterful show of brutal atmosphere in tone and prose, brilliantly gothic and true-to-something characters, and ponderous, frightening terrors and violence. This second novel of Gormenghast is simultaneously bleak and beautiful, and definitely a hell of a read. I couldn’t help laughing aloud at the macabre and miserable moments, and I was held in a fascination, an awe, of Peake’s delight in imagery and characterization. This one will haunt me for a while.