I think it's the arrangement of words that I want to be able to emulate
Iain Banks, I like the wit and the plots more

Mervyn Peake is just good at all these things
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:31, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I'll give you that.
I'd like to be a storyteller like Gaiman, but i'd like to write novels like Banks. Peake I've never read, was he Titus Groan or some such?
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:34, Reply)

yeah
titus groan, gormanghast, titus alone. The first two are heavy on words, but so very worth it. The 3rd one just kind of spirals of in some odd direction as he went mad.

I have another one by him, too, My Pye. Pretty good, but the Gormanghast trilogy is a masterpiece
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:37, Reply)

I'll give it a try
but a git I went to school with really liked them and he was a git, so it's hard to disassociate. I'm sure they're good though.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 22:39, Reply)