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Titus Alone
Titus Alone | Mervyn Peake
5 posts | 12 read | 7 to read
In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy. But there are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.
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Minervasbutler
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Whereas the first two novels in the sequence are replete with long descriptive passages, here the pace is much more rapid, as we are whisked from scene to scene. Perhaps because of this dissimilarity to the preceding books, Titus Alone has often been dismissed by readers who simply wanted more Gormenghast, which is a pity as it has strange riches of its own.

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Panpan

Titus Alone is NOT GOOD and in the future I‘ll be revisiting the Gormenghast duology only. I have some sadness about this: the author was already suffering from dementia when he began writing this and I wonder what it might have been under better circumstances.

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twohectobooks
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Less than fifty pages to go and so excited to be finished finally.

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Almost done both of these!

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Foragingfantasy
Titus Alone | Mervyn Peake
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WTF? The first two books were so much better. I‘m between a pick and a so-so.