![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SPOILERS SYNOPSIS: Elric of Melnibone is Emperor of an island kingdom of sophisticated people whose culture is decaying. What follows are spoilers and is intended for people reading this who dont remember the novel too well and wish to go down memory lane. Rousing dark swords and sorcery.COMMENTS: Apparently, Moorcock was never big on Tolkien so he took the opposite approach in his works far darker less details more gore not as happy. It was a pleasurable read and while it wasnt great (Zelazny) nor superb (GRRM) it did fall between good and very good. The latter half is rescuing Cymoril (the love of his life) from Yrkoon and acquiring the long lost soul blades.įor the most part, I didnt have any problem with the story structure of this series. Sometimes though Id like more details.Have to be fair here in comparison to authors who have meatier texts 160 pages its easier to move fast compared to 900 pages as the typical epic fantasy.Īnd when Moorcock was writing it was for magazines with limited space so Im not going to dock his grade for it.OVERALL STRUCTURE: First half is Elric dealing with his evil cousin and trying to deal with Melnibonean attitudes which disturb him. Of course, the pacing is so good bc Moorcock doesnt give us a lot of details.Įverything is so succinct that I wonder if he ever wrote screenplays. I hate it when slang or sayings from our times are used if its supposed to be a totally different world.PACING: The book is sparse to begin with only 160 pages but it moves fast. Overall though, it didnt get too contemporary as some authors are very guilty of doing. Sometimes it would get formal but in other times it would relax a bit. Elric appealed to readers bc: (1) Unlike Tolkien, it dealt with grayish characters no big struggle between good and evil more of protagonist vs. ![]()
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