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Originally Posted by pyan  Woo...
You've convinced me into giving them another try, j.d.
I read the Count Brass series a looong time ago, but can't remember a lot about them...if I pick though the above post correctly, your recommendation is to start with The Eternal Champion (the novel): is that right? |
LOL... Yes, it is a bit of a "tangled web", isn't it? My own suggestion (as well as that I've seen with most others, including Moorcock) is, if you're going to try the series, yes, that's the best one to begin with. If you're only interested in certain character series, that's another matter; and they are designed so that they can be read independently of the whole -- it's just that in context they become much larger themselves, as well as a lot of the richness of the ideas he is exploring becoming more apparent.
On the other hand, as I said, there are many takes on where to go from there; there's such a thread, iirc, at Moorcock's Miscellany, with discussion of the "proper" order; and Moorcock apparently worked out another such list some years ago (though I believe this was before he did the one for the American White Wolf edition, and certainly before his more recent additions to the cycle, such as
The Dreamthief's Daughter,
The Skrayling Tree,
White Wolf's Son,
The Metatemporal Detective, etc.....)
In some ways, as I noted in another thread I began here, I see some of this as similar to the way Cabell pulled so many of his works together, because all of them were dealing with the same themes and ideas, and together they formed an enormous exploration of the major philosophy of his fiction and an examination of his thoughts on life....