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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Gormenghast
Message-ID: <774@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 11:35:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 11:35:23 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 06:22:46 EDT
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Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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stever%cit-vlsi@cit-vax.ARPA (Steve Rabin) writes:
> Although I wimped out in the middle of the second volume, Peake's
> style was really inspiring.  The richness of the stuff made me pause.

I read all three volumes, waiting throughout for something to happen.
It seemed like a million exciting threads were all left untied and
unresolved.  It was magnetic, but gave back nothing for the attraction.

> Rolling Stone's special on Sting mentioned that he has the movie rights
> to Gormenghast.  Gormenghast would make an excellent movie!

Gormenghast would make the same kind of movie that Dune and LOTR did.
Bad.  It would have to be skeletal, rushed, different, and unsatisfactory.
-- 

Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh


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