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From: milne@uci-icse
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Subject: Re: Gormenghast
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 04:02:05 EDT
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From: Alastair Milne <milne@uci-icse>


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   Yes, the cover artwork is excellent.  So are the books.  I heard
   somewhere that Sting has the movie rights for these books.  Does
   anyone know more about this?

   -s


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   The cover art is very good, but I cannot begin to agree about the books.
   "Ghormenghast" is 50 (on a good day) pages of action stuffed into 500 pages
   of print.  By "action" I mean anything at all happening.  I slogged
   doggedly through to the very end, and felt as if I'd emerged from quicksand
   at last to stand on solid ground again.  I skipped the reveries in the
   banquet scene, though.  I'm sorry, they were just impossible: at least 2 
   pages of reverie per character, with no punctuation.  More than I could 
   stand.  And the rest of the book moves with little more speed than they do.

   How could you make a movie of it?  What is there to show?


   Alastair Milne