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Titus Groan

Gormenghast Trilogy

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Titus Groan

By: Mervyn Peake
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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The complete, unabridged audiobook of Titus Groan.

As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone.

A brilliantly sustained flight of gothic imagination.

©1968 The Estate of Mervyn Peake (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks Epic Fantasy Mind-bending Scary

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This is my favourite book, I've read and listened to Gormenghast repeatedly. The performance is great but a few of the voices put me off and broke the magic for me in places.

Beautiful visual descriptions and bizarre characters

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Saul Reichlin's performance is outstanding. His ability to give character to both male and female voices, young and old, (without once sinking to the cheap recourse of regional dialects) is second to none. (Based on this, I'd love to hear Reichlin read other books with multiple voices - Song of Ice and Fire, for example, the audio version of which is so irritating I returned it half way through Book 1, or His Dark Materials).
I very much hope Reichlin will be recording Titus Alone, to complete the trilogy.
If you're reading this, Saul Reichlin - congratulations, and thank you!

Superb narration.

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One of the greatest gothic stories of C20, perfectly interpreted. Can't wait to listen to the next novel

Utterly enchanting

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I'm so glad for audio books, I would have never finished reading it. In short this is how I found the book. The characters (all of them) are not very nice, almost Dickensian, but in a more sinister way. The humour is subtle quite droll and never a belly laugh. The main character Steerpike is to be honest just manipulating the privileged morons about him. But the way its written is the hardest thing to describe. Its very verbose, over descriptive about everything, the expressions of the characters is usually very clever, sometimes humorous but always so, so long. All in all. Titus Groan is a novel that takes an eternity to tell a very simple story due to the very stylised way the author wrote the book. Written in the 50s it just wouldn't survive today, especially without audio books, me thinks.

An over descriptive, very long farce. That lacks.

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This a book like no other. It has no real plot to speak of, but a series of set pieces that move around it's weird, odd ball characters of gormenghast a dark old gothic Castle which is a character is self. Peake has created a masterpiece of imaginary fiction it feels like every word is meticulously placed and at times so poetically written. It's superbly read by Saul Reichlin who really know how to voice characters and he appears to have a great affinity with the work to do it Justice. l have both the other two books downloaded in the trilogy if you want to read something that is very hard to forget then digest, absorb and enjoy 5 🌟stars
Andrew

Absolutely Brilliant

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Peake’s trilogy is a masterpiece. If you like juicy pros, then the Gormenghast trilogy is a good place to visit. The narration is masterful. I encourage anyone who may be put off by what may at first appear to be a performer getting carried away in doing ‘silly voices’ to stick with it. Saul Reichlin did his homework. Peake’s incredible powers of description furnish the attentive reader with all the clues they need to conjure the vividness of every character, including their voices. Reichlin clearly researched every character’s vocal inflections based on Peake’s own description and remains entirely consistent throughout. I bought a physical copy of the books to read alongside the narration. Just because the pros are so wonderful. Bravo!

An extraordinary achievement

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Very different. Spectacularly written, wonderfully voiced. The characters came to life, I enjoyed it thoroughly

Loved it

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An outstanding performance of a masterpiece. Saul Reichlin deserves an audio Oscar. Buy it now!

Crème de la crème

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Couldn't wait to listen every night. Wonderful narration. It really brought the characters to life.

Fabulous

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Titus Groan is more a series of exquisitely painted vignettes than a novel. Very little actually happens in the 20-odd hours, but this not-very-much happens beautifully. Peake describes in the minutest detail a gallery of grotesque and eccentric characters in a richly imagined gothic fantasy world.

Special mention must go to the narrator who seems to have put much thought and preparation into their work. Some of the character performances, such as the shrill, fatuous, yet fundamentally decent Dr Prunesquallor and the dim-witted twins were enormously entertaining and perfectly captured Peake’s descriptions of them.

Superb example of the art of narration

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