From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/23/2025 11:00 PM, Titus G wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I'll have to look that up. I read Titus Alone back in the mid 70s, and   
   also thought it a very unsatisfactory conclusion to the trilogy.   
      
   pt   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)