A review by outcolder
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

5.0

I read a page or two of this a day for the last half-year or so. Peake is a poet and an illustrator and this book is like one long prose-poem. I think if you like the Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, some of the weirder Aubrey Beardsley stuff, you are going to dig this. Not that it is like those guys, this book isn't like anything but itself. I think I will read this again some day. Some of the descriptions were so delicious, I read them several times over before moving on. I guess you could say I savored this book. I cannot recommend it highly enough, even though I would readily admit that most people probably wouldn't like it. I am not trying to be like, "ooh, I am in the cult and that makes me special," it's just that this book is weird. Loved it.