Elric in America

I have them. They *are* enormously influential but they're also terrible. Moorcock's prose style is tedious. Same as Lovecraft; great ideas but bad writing.

Also, Moorcock is still alive and famously a prick about his intellectual property so probably isn't very helpful when people come to him asking to reprint them.

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>>9087510
I managed to read a portion of the first one and it's actually because of the writing style that I'm trying to seek the rest of the series out. I usually hate fantasy because the prose always ends up making me feel like I'm wasting my time.

> The Fellowship of the Ring - got right around the part where Frodo moves out of Bag End and to a new smaller house (1/3 of the way in and the book hasn't even fucking started yet) and thought to myself "jesus christ, is the whole book like this?" and never picked it back up.

> The Dark Tower Series - got all the way through to the end of the last book (through awkward dialog, bad story decisions and the completely out of place 4th wall breaking) and the final 100 pages ruined the whole damn thing.

> A Game of Thrones - got halfway through and thought "they're still on the fucking King's Road?" and dropped it like a rock.

From what I read of the first Elric book, Moorcock's style is the polar opposite of Tolkien and Martin - no pointless extra bullshit, no devoting pages and pages and pages to shit irrelevant to the plot, just stripped down and fun to read. The guy that turned me on to the series says this is because the series started as pulp paperbacks.

>>9087517
Yeah, from my searching it looks like this problem has existed for as long as internet forums have existed.

>>9087599
I find it plain and boring but if you enjoy that then it's understandable.
I think it's a lot easier to find digital copies than searching through second-hand bookshops.

>>9087599
Wow, you are a gigapleb.

>>9087647
no u

>>9087517

Moorcock threw a hissy fit on his forums about the Witcher because muh albino warrior.

If you want to see bad prose though read Corum. The part with the whispering lake or whatever made me stop reading the books for like a month. It's sad cause I actually liked the early part of it, it felt like he cared less and less as it went on.

The ending was pretty dope though.

>>9087599
You're a fuckin pleb son, go watch tv

>>9087687
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72LKjGErD9o