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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Liked it for what it is, very cheesy & melodramatic at times, but good if one's in the mood for fantasy action. This seems to be held in the same regard as Conan & Fafhard series, and maybe it was as popular and influential, but those other series have MUCH MUCH better writing. ( ) It would be really easy to dismiss Elric as tropey pulp fantasy. I mean, it absolutely IS that. But this is a character that first appeared in 1961 and a book that only came together in the early 70s. If anything D&D owes more to Moorcock than even Tolkien. This is why when Elric is doing some his most stupid emo-princelinging, it helps to remember that pretty much everyone from Drizzt to Lotar and even Kylo Ren can trace their creative lineage back to the original mopey prince of pulp. Mature fantasy with some great original world building. Really liked the start and end. The opening is like some super-over-the top Conan novel but the last third felt more darkly humorous, as if the characters had wandered into Time Bandits or Labyrinth or something. The main problem in my opinion is that at the start you really get to know the main hero but once the central plot gets going there seems to be a change in style and the reader gets pushed away. I never really felt connected to the protagonist after the first third. Its also quite a random and fragmented story, as if it was a much longer book that was heavily pared down. An interesting and unique feel, but it didn't make me care enough to want to read the rest of the saga. no reviews | add a review
Is contained inThe Elric Saga, Part I (Elric of Melniboné; The Sailor on the Seas of Fate; The Weird of the White Wolf) by Michael Moorcock Has the adaptationDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML: It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody.... He is Elric, Emperor of Melnibone, cursed with a keen and cynical intelligence, schooled in the art of sorcery -- the hero of Michael Moorcock's remarkable epic of conflict and adventure at the dawn of human history... Included is a dramatic introduction read by Michael Moorcock over 10 mins in length. .No library descriptions found. |
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