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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > Thread of the Last Home: Let's Read Dragonlance
 
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Warthur
May 2, 2004

No. 1 Apartheid Fan posted:

Re: Moorcock, are the Elric books any good? Do they hold up at all?

I've known about how influential they are since I was a teenager and used them as a touchstone for like, explaining to people what a Hexblade is or whatever, but I've never actually read any of them.

The original run of novellas - from the one where Elric helps a bunch of pirates sack his homeland to the four which form the novel Stormbringer - are the best, mostly because they're a young, hungry, angry Moorcock doing for pulp fantasy what punk would do for rock music years later.

For my money, every subsequent attempt by Moorcock to tag on anothrr story or novel to the Elric series has just diluted that early edge further.

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