Rat 🛸
Extremely slow and quite brilliant. The language used in this is so fantastically over-the-top in a way that made me realise how starved of description most modern books are.
Gormenghast is such a curious setting; it's stagnation captured as a character of its own. It reminds me of a potato that's been left in a cupboard too long, and so has grown it's own beard and it's own personality. I'm talking nonsense, of course. I am tired and in pain and trying to write in any kind of way that will do justice to how the book is written.
I can see why this is my mum's favourite book.
Extremely slow and quite brilliant. The language used in this is so fantastically over-the-top in a way that made me realise how starved of description most modern books are.
Gormenghast is such a curious setting; it's stagnation captured as a character of its own. It reminds me of a potato that's been left in a cupboard too long, and so has grown it's own beard and it's own personality. I'm talking nonsense, of course. I am tired and in pain and trying to write in any kind of way that will do justice to how the book is written.
I can see why this is my mum's favourite book.