It's that I found Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire so insulting to my intelligence that I blacklisted her (much like I did recently with Brandon Sanderson). It's not that I don't understand Rowling's commercial success and popularity were and still are incredible.
It's just that he rambles away at minutiae that's of so little interest to me that whatever enjoyment I might've gotten ends up buried under the tedium of actually reading his writing (except for the short stories that were collected into The Silmarillion, which I enjoyed more often than not). It's not that I don't appreciate how transformative Tolkien was in the genre by divorcing it from connections with the real world and establishing so many tropes that are taken for granted these days. And yet, there just seems to be something about the famous fantasy fiction that comes from the UK that just doesn't click with me. I'm sure that people who know me well would back me up in how much the opposite of racist I am. “The most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.I don't have a grudge against British fantasy authors. Adventures include “The Dreaming City,” “While the Gods Laugh,” “Kings in Darkness,” “Dead God’s Homecoming,” “Black Sword’s Brothers,” and “Sad Giant’s Shield.”Īn indispensable addition to any fantasy collection, Elric: The Stealer of Souls is an unmatched introduction to a brilliant writer and his most famous–or infamous–creation. Now, with a major film in development, here is the first volume of a dazzling collection of stories containing the seminal appearances of Elric and lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist John Picacio–plus essays, letters, maps, and other material. The result was a bold and unique hero–weak in body, subtle in mind, dependent on drugs for the vitality to sustain himself–with great crimes behind him and a greater destiny ahead: a rock-and-roll antihero who would channel all the violent excesses of the sixties into one enduring archetype. When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent Melniboné, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and reflected a more up-to-date sophistication of theme and style.
–from the Foreword by Alan Moore, creator of V for Vendetta They are the spells that first drew me and all the numerous admirers of his work with whom I am acquainted into Moorcock’s luminous and captivating web.” “The stories here are the raw heart of Michael Moorcock.
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