Thread 24486591

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Anonymous 6/22/2025, 5:26:56 AM No.24486591 [Report] >>24486601 >>24487897

I'm in awe of this man's tenacity.

Anonymous 6/22/2025, 5:41:32 AM No.24486601 [Report] >>24486611

>>24486591 (OP)
His prose is good but didn’t he say his trilogy was incomplete?

Anonymous 6/22/2025, 5:50:18 AM No.24486611 [Report]

>>24486601
He developed dementia with Lewy bodies at a fairly young-ish age and was already in decline by the time he was writing Titus Alone.

Anonymous 6/22/2025, 8:25:15 PM No.24487897 [Report] >>24487919

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>>24486591 (OP)
Chapter 75 of book two with Fuchsia's death hit me like a freight train. One of the saddest things I've ever read.

Anonymouṡ 6/22/2025, 8:35:36 PM No.24487919 [Report] >>24487942

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>>24487897
Fuschia is one of my two or three favourite characters in literature. Steerpike can never be punished enough for what he did to her. (Although everyone is to blame really. He never would have got his hooks into her if she hadn’t been utterly starved of affection.)

Anonymous 6/22/2025, 8:44:27 PM No.24487942 [Report]

>>24487919
I was so enthralled with Steerpike's story that I didn't realize how much I cared for Fuschia's character until that chapter. Now looking back on the first book when she's just an imaginative girl feels so grim knowing how it ends.