Moorcock novice

[Jill Strobridge]

Read The Ice Schooner - the images from that still haunt me.     Behold the 
Man for another early book (but controversially religious).    Read a Jerry 
Cornelius - any.    Cure for Cancer, The Final Programme and The English 
Assasain are all still on my bookshelves.    There are many alter-ego 
variants of Jerry Cornelius - Jherek Carnelian is one (if memory serves) and 
that basic character seems to haunt all Moorcock's books while other 
metamorphosed characters keep emerging in transmuted forms in other series. 
Warlord of the Air transposes Victorian and recent histories and there may 
be other, more recent, series that do this as well - all of them embracing a 
Fin de Siecle (End of an Age) atmosphere.    I've almost entirely avoided 
any sword and sourcery books and though I did read the last Elric 'Revenge 
of the Rose' (dare I say this?) I found it strangely boring.       Brothel 
In Rosenstrasse has plenty of the erotic (as you might expect from the 
title) combined with "stream of consciousness" writing style and I can't 
remember the book (either Rituals of Infinity or Entropy Tango) that has The 
Mountain Grill with various Hawkwind Band members sitting at all the 
different tables but the band also gets a brief mention in one of the Jerry 
Cornelius books.

But I'm sure other people will offer you a completely different selection! 
De gustibus ....and all that.

jill
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Jill Strobridge <jill.strobridge at blueyonder.co.uk>
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gary shindler" <bewlay68 at YAHOO.COM>
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Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 9:19 PM
Subject: Moorcock novice


> Was at the library and looking for a good introduction
> to Michael Moorcock's work. Any suggestions? Many
> would probably suggest Elric or Cornelius: I wasn't
> necessarily looking for a series to read just a good
> sample. Just feeling around.
> Gary
>
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