From: noone@nowhere.com
On 24/10/25 15:33, Titus G wrote:
> On 23/10/25 07:52, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
>> On 21/10/2025 11.09, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>>> On 2025-10-20, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chtorr books 5, 6, and 7 by David Gerrold. I remain convinced that
>>>> these books will be published by his son when Gerrold passes away.
>>>
>>> That would require for those books to have been written. Do we have
>>> any reason to believe that this is actually the case?
>>>
>>> I would settle for an outline of where Gerrold wanted the story to
>>> go... assuming he knew himself, which I have increasingly come to
>>> doubt.
>>
>> Ditto me for Peake's seven (?) never-written volumes of the Titus
>> works. I mean, if it was known to be seven, he must have had a pretty
>> solid outline.
>
> I hadn't heard that there were seven. In the introduction in Book four,
> Titus Awakes, it states:
> "Peake began this fourth and final volume of the Gormenghast stories but
> died having only written a few pages. Using notes and the fragments he
> left behind...", it was written by his wife.
> Of course, final volume might refer to written father than planned.
>
> I haven't read Titus Awakes, (book 4), and don't how it fits in with
> Titus Alone, (book 3), which I disliked intensely and did not
> understand. Even after reading expert analysis and literary reviews
> online, I still couldn't understand why the trilogy, (how I thought of
> it then), would take such a weird swerve in many aspects, with one of
> the main ones being the lack of richness of character and plot, and the
> lack of character development, features of my favourites, Gormenghast,
> (book 1), and Titus Groan, (book 2).
Titus Alone, (book 3), was re-edited and partly re-written in about 2005
because the 1959 original was found to be incomplete based on Peake's
notebooks. Peake's illness was blamed for those omissions. I have not
read this revised version.
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