I have read Gormenghast three or four times-- or at least the first two. I may have let myself off Titus Alone a time or two. It is very strange and dreamlike (and wonderful). And now I imagine it unwinding for you as you rush or lumber through the darkness.
When I was about twelve, my mother sought to improve me by giving me a SBS paperback on How to Succeed in High School, because I was so clearly Doomed, Doomed, I tell you. It included a list of [literary] books One Should Have Read By Each Year of High School which now strikes me as kind of deranged. (Yes, clearly every high school senior needs to have read Sophocles's Oedipus plays!) Not only did that result in my getting an early lick at a lot of interesting (and some very dated) stuff, but it led me to read badly for years. As if I were dashing for a finish line. It was hard to recover, but getting myself to slow down is one of the things I've been happiest about.
I haven't read Tad Williams-- would you recommend the series?
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When I was about twelve, my mother sought to improve me by giving me a SBS paperback on How to Succeed in High School, because I was so clearly Doomed, Doomed, I tell you. It included a list of [literary] books One Should Have Read By Each Year of High School which now strikes me as kind of deranged. (Yes, clearly every high school senior needs to have read Sophocles's Oedipus plays!) Not only did that result in my getting an early lick at a lot of interesting (and some very dated) stuff, but it led me to read badly for years. As if I were dashing for a finish line. It was hard to recover, but getting myself to slow down is one of the things I've been happiest about.
I haven't read Tad Williams-- would you recommend the series?