Oddly enough I really like LOTR as well as The Silmarillion… So maybe I should give this Gormenghast thing another shot, I don’t know.
I think the difference between LOTR/Simlarillion and Gormenghast is that Tolkien’s books contain well-crafted language and descriptions of scenery that are punctuated by moments of sheer epicoverload; whereas Gormenghast contains the former but not the latter.
But again, I haven’t made it that far into it, so I could be wrong.
Oddly enough I really like LOTR as well as The Silmarillion… So maybe I should give this Gormenghast thing another shot, I don’t know.
I think the difference between LOTR/Simlarillion and Gormenghast is that Tolkien’s books contain well-crafted language and descriptions of scenery that are punctuated by moments of sheer epic overload; whereas Gormenghast contains the former but not the latter.
But again, I haven’t made it that far into it, so I could be wrong.