| Re: Book Hauls!
Oh, yes, the Dancers at the End of Time are wonderful little books; and they get absolutely insane before the end of the original trilogy of novels (The End of All Songs). The other two books (Legends from the End of Time and The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming; or, the Return of the Fireclown) are a little less frenetic, but still very good satire. However, as with so much of Moorcock, there are serious points beneath the fluff; and often his tableaux are quite stunning (if sometimes overly chromatic). As someone else noted on one of the other threads, some of his fantasies really do read like the old mediaeval morality plays, complete with almost (or genuine) cardboard-level symbolism in novels where other aspects are often very detailed or textured.
The thing is, he's such a variable (and varied) writer... from the potboiler to the very textured, from light and frothy to extremely meaty, from irony to almost the almost Wagnerian (and sometimes a blending of the two); so it's sometimes difficult to suggest just one Moorcock to someone, because it all depends on what they're looking for, or in the mood for at that point. They all tie together, but they aren't necessarily dependent on one another. |