From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis@siriusfiction.com>
Subject: (urth) Re: bee's Gormenghast, alga's gormenGhastly
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:01:25 

bee wrote:
>I hadn't imagined that my negative opinion of the show would be as
>controversial as it turned out to be. Here's another of my opinions. I don't
>think it's controversial, but here goes: Titus Groan and Gormenghast (i.e.
>the books on which the show is based), are classics and everyone on this
>list would enjoy them immensely.

And alga, she found the show Ghastly, unwatchable.

Ha-ha!  I found the book unreadable twelve years ago, abandoning it soon
after the library fire; yet I found the tv show (first half, so far) quite
entertaining, at times I laughed out loud.

I was hesitant to watch it at all, since I didn't like the book, but I also
remembered how I didn't like the most-recent, live-action ALICE IN
WONDERLAND (with Martin Short as Mad Hatter) when it first ran on tv, yet I
liked it when I saw the thing on video . . . which made me suspect that the
commercial interruptions were what was really bothering me the most.

Different people, different tastes--as usual.

=mantis=


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