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Gormenghast

By: Mervyn Peake
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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The complete, unabridged audiobook of Gormenghast .

Enter the world of Gormenghast...the vast, crumbling castle to which the 77th Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder.

Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan - it is an enrichment and deepening of that book. The fertility of incident, character and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks as one of the 20th century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.

©1968 The Estate of Mervyn Peake (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks Epic Fantasy

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Beautifully read and performed! I also enjoyed the story and highly recommend reading the first book before this

Wonderfully read

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I enjoyed this book so much that I actually lost sleep because I couldn't stop listening. amazing story telling and amazing narration.

So engrossing

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Really enjoyed this book, quite a different style to Titus Groan. I particularly love this narration, Saul Reichlin does a great job of bringing the characters alive with all the different voices.

Great narration

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a fantastic complex story that is really worth a listen as it is truely excellent

ace

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I enjoyed the richly imagined world and luxurious prose of the first book and came to accept it as a series of vignettes without any real direction. This sequel starts very slowly indeed (I could happily have done with less of the professors) but in the second half it actually has a fairly brisk and engaging plot.

Saul Reichlin again gives an astonishing performance. His character voices are superb, particularly Dr Prunesquallor, subtlety revealing the tender heart beneath the garrulous facetiousness.

An engrossing return to gormenghast

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I enjoy this more than Titus Groan. The story moves quickly with out loosing any of the beautiful descriptive poetry of the first.

Gormengast

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The poses is unique and beautiful, like the story itself. If you are looking for a page turner, stay away. If you are looking for a book to lovingly hold to you chest, this is for you…..

A true masterpiece

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A wonderful story narrated to perfection. The many twists and turns of Gormenghast were revealed slowly peeled back layer by layer through beautiful descriptions by the author. What any modern writer would have had over and done within a chapter - in a rush to tell the story, and by very notion, taking the pleasure away from a reader, Mervyn goes into great detail and explores the many twists and turns which are explained and explored in detail that really lets you get underneath the skin of the characters - that being said there is still much more I’m intrigued to learn about Gormenghast!

Captivating and entertaining

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Surreal, visceral and sometimes brutal in the telling, it is a complete world of it's own.

Unlike anything I've read before.

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Love every second of this book as good if not better then the first. The writing and characters are great. The story is a series of set pieces which has no consequence, but just a veneer of lays upon lays that serve up idea's...and boy! you never to the bottom of any of them such is the brilliance in the writing. It's superbly read by Saul Reichlin. l'm looking forward to the last in the trilogy Titus Alone. Andrew

Brilliant

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