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by Michael Moorcock
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Brian's Book Blog
Brian's Book Blog rated it 8 years ago
Elric, accompanied by Moonglum, heads off on a mission of revenge against Thelb K'aarna.Along the way he fights denizens of Chaos, a god and beings from another plane of existence that are immune to his magic.There's an appearance by other aspects of the Eternal Champion and the usual questioning of...
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd rated it 12 years ago
I can't really remember much of this book because it has been a long time since I actually read it, though I believe that I did end up making my way through pretty much all of the Elric series. I am not sure either if I still have them, and I suspect that I don't because I ended up purging a lot of ...
Randolph "Dilda" Carter
Randolph "Dilda" Carter rated it 12 years ago
You always get the feeling that most of the shorter Eternal Champion novels were written on the run, kind of like Anthony Trollope sitting down for so many hours to write so many pages per day. The Deus ex machina is always too much a part of this sort of Moorcock's sloppier slap-dash fantasy writi...
sologdin
sologdin rated it 13 years ago
So, three novellas, structurally identical, wherein each the same lame antagonist threatens something that Elric wants preserved simply because he hates the antagonist, who returns from prior installments with new armies (one for each novella here) and new versions of the Fell Sorcery, only to be--s...
Bookake
Bookake rated it 14 years ago
Getting hard each time to write reviews for these. So much happened in this book that it would be impossible to sum it up properly, so it's easier just to think of what the highlights were for me. Mostly I was happy to finally see the fabled city of Tanelorn. I loved the idea all along that there...
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