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Post by faeryring on Jan 30, 2019 18:23:54 GMT -5
Any fans?
The Gormenghast books are some of my favourites. Intensely ponderous, florid prose, grotesque characters, crumbling castle... etc
To me its very Dungeon Synth, in a lot of ways.
Mervyn Peake's illustrations are pretty DS, too!
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Post by nahadoth on Feb 1, 2019 7:00:59 GMT -5
I’ve wanted to read these for awhile, but just haven’t found the time to start yet. I know they’ve pissed off a lot of literary scholars I know, which means I’ll probably enjoy them...
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Post by dungeonsnake on Feb 9, 2019 0:35:04 GMT -5
Yes. I read these when I was first getting into fighting wildfires, back in 2010, when I was in my early 20's. It was a harsh lifestyle and these books were my escape for a time. Unfortunately my copy was eventually ruined in the rain... I haven't read it since.
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Metachasm
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First EP in the ideation stage.
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Post by Metachasm on May 21, 2019 20:45:05 GMT -5
Truly one of the finest books and book series' I've ever read - they are still so striking even now.
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Post by dungeonsnake on May 22, 2019 18:05:10 GMT -5
Yeah they are truly unique and gorgeous.
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Post by Pilgrim's Shadow on May 24, 2019 13:08:20 GMT -5
Wow, never heared of them before your post, but now i made my research and got pretty hyped. Seems very DS, i know what you're saying. Only by reading about the books made me imagine DS music playing in my head.
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Post by disgustingcathedral on Jul 15, 2020 5:39:30 GMT -5
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Post by disgustingcathedral on Jul 16, 2020 11:57:29 GMT -5
Been doing some disk archeology recently, amongst the files I just found this glitched MacPaint image of Steerpike, scanned back in the day with a handheld scanner from the theatre programme for the aforementioned Gormenghast play ^__^ EDIT: found Barquentine too
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Post by amnor on Jan 22, 2024 22:24:19 GMT -5
This is a good reminder for me to read them again. It's been years. It was a big encouragement to me to read an author that wasn't afraid to take his time and use a lot of words. I have a feeling he'd get cut down in most current writing groups. It was after reading those that I gained a greater appreciation for older literature, like Victorian age. Thanks for sharing those images, they're striking.
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