Bevis wrote:
"Ah, see, but I don't think the execution is though. Same thing with Gormenghast. Very gothic setting and characters, and even plot elements, but the actual story is done differently. Sort of the same way that Mansfield Park is a very gothic novel but is pointedly not one (OK so it's a parody of gothic novels, but you get what I mean.) Mind, Mansfield Park is also a pile of poo, much like every other Jane Austen novel."