The Essential Moorecock

[Darth Shoju]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I have a pretty good idea where to start now.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

A recent one, The Dreamthief's Daughter, was okay until the end, when the author took all of my goodwill, jumped up and down on it, used it to clean up a mess, and tossed it out the window. I'm not about to pick up another of his books ever again.

Brad

Expand, please?

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Expand, please?

I believe it got mentioned in the closed thread. I'll spoilertext it:

Spoiler

Elric and Von Bek, on dragonback, "save England from utter destruction by wiping out a Luftwaffe bomber raid that would wipe the island off the map." I find this particularly offensive, as WW 2 airpower simply can not possibly do that. Certainly not with the weapons available at the time. While allowing for histrionics and a certain level of ignorance on the part of the narrator, it's still too much for me to swallow. Of course, the dragons are bulletproof. Then, later on, Von Bek decides to abandon all his responsibilities and get himself sterilized, leaving the Grail without a guardian. Actually, he may've just decided not to have children, but the point's still the bloody same, he had a hard time and gave up.

Now, I realize I may be overreacting to these, and it's certainly possible that I'm not...quite used to horrifically flawed viewpoint characters, but there's only so much crap I can take. The first part of the book was rather interesting, and I was looking forward to checking out more of his work, but not any more.

Brad

 

[Joshua Randall]

You left out the really incoherent parts, though. The story has a glimmer of interest to it, but the way Moorcock writes it is execrable.