I've never gotten as far as Titus Alone. I bought the trilogy in one volume not so long ago, and started reading from the beginning but kept being distracted by varsity and so on.

I love Fuschia and Steerpike. Do you have the Peake illustrations too? Is it just me, or is Steerpike somehow quite *hotly* unattractive? Even without the pictures I fancied him in the book. But JRM was utterly, utterly wrong. I disliked the TV Gormenghast, at least what I saw of it, as it had the absurdity but none of the blackness and power that underlies the book.

I also passionately love the story of Edna Prunesquallor's party, with the cold hot water bottle bosom and the catatonic professors.