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Like being dropped into a very other world. I'll have to dig some out and read again. The feel is like it's written by someone not sane. Gormenghast, a least th
by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
Like being dropped into a very other world. I'll have to dig some out and read again. The feel is like it's written by someone not sane. Gormenghast, a least the first 2 books, felt the same - not-quite-sane leaking through. Then again I may not have been at the time so maybe a bit of projection.
Anyway thanks for the reminder!
- Freak_NL 3y agoBook three of the Gormenghast trilogy of course being the one were the reader is figuratively wading in a deluge of not-quite-sane. Anyone interested in the weird world-building of Gormenghast: don't feel bad about skipping the third book. I enjoyed Cordwainer Smith's Norstrilia (1975). Australians in space, and utterly weird things to do with sheep (sorry, that may sound a bit iffy, but the book is cool).
- AceJohnny2 3y agoThere was a French comic book series (whose name escapes me), which I think is heavily inspired by Gormenghast. It followed a girl/young lady who had been kidnapped/sold off to the (illusive) lord of the house, and her discovery of the unique rules of the house, which seems to have a life of its own, and the petty (to this new outsider) squabbles of its inhabitants, servants and "nobles" alike. I'm having a hard time finding that comic book series across the translation barrier.