[ SECRET POST #2585 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2585 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Monster High]


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03.
[Bryan Fuller, John Green]


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04.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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05.
[Pretty Little Liars]


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06.
[Breaking Bad]


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[Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey]


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08.
[Reign]


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09.
[Leviathan: the last day of the decade]


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[Sherlock Holmes]


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[Steam]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 017 secrets from Secret Submission Post #369.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Gormenghast is possibly the most underrated series in all of fantasy literature. Anyone who wants to call the fantasy genre forgettable hack work meant for adolescents should read Gormenghast and seriously re-assess his (or her, or whatever) view. I'm surprised that the books aren't better known outside of Britain; they certainly deserve to be extremely popular. Imagine if Peake had lived longer and expanded the series to its intended length of seven volumes--it's enough to make you wish that you could see into alternate universes.

(I read the Gormenghast trilogy and The Worm Ouroboros in the same three-week span, and at the end, I felt as though I'd just finished climbing a mountain made of heavily frosted chocolate cake. In other words, they weren't exactly easy reads, but good books often aren't.)

[(Anonymous)]

They're fantastic. They really should be so much more widely read. Just stylistically, they're set apart from almost everything else you read. So stylized and colored and... grotesque, I think, is a word that I want to use here. Everything feels exaggerated and deepened and made as large and as colorful and as vivid and as energetic as possible and it's just so fucking wild. Absolutely distinctive and great. There's so many little things about it I love - I really ought to reread them.

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, yes, I love Gormenghast so damn much, you have no idea.

I found it just after I was getting really tired of reading the same old fantasy novels. The prose is like sinking into a deliciously warm blanket.

[(Anonymous)]

Gormenghast is amazing. And yes, I'm talking about the prose. No one in S/SF has ever come close to Peake in terms of sheer inventiveness and musicality as a stylist. (Maybe China Mieville will get close someday - he's clearly trying.)