From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com
On 10/24/25 09:09, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> 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
You are not the only one dis-satisfied with Peake's great work.
I guess since he died he is forgiven his literary lapses.
I think there is a story about authors in an afterlilfe and the works
they have produced post-mortem. Doubt this will be the case but a
charming conceit.
I enjoyed the first books due to the atmosphere Peake invoked which
was dreamlike or maybe nightmare like.
bliss
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