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Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peale

While I can see why this lesser-known 70 year old series of fantasy-adjacent comic castle novels inspired a generation of writers, and while I enjoyed the crazy and completely unique writing style during the first novel, by the middle of the second I was getting bored. 

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