That is very fun! I might bump Home Fires up a notch or two on my Wolfe-to-read list.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Gerry Quinn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="font:10pt arial;background:#e4e4e4"><b>From:</b> <a title="lhaygood@gmail.com" href="mailto:lhaygood@gmail.com" target="_blank">Lane Haygood</a>
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<div>> Moorcock was a very subversive counterculture figure in the 60s and
70s </div>
<div>> and his books reflect it. Elric was written as the Anti-Conan, a
sickly </div>
<div>> intellectual who concerns himself too much with ethics and turns to
violence </div>
<div>> and demonology only as a last resort. </div>
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</div><div>The Hamlet of Swords and Sorcery?</div><div class="im">
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<div>> I recommend all of the Eternal Champion books,
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I have maybe a blind spot for Moorcock. The
Jerry Cornelius and related stuff turned me off, and much of the rest seemed
slight. Probably I should take another look. </font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I actually liked his non-SF effort, _Mother
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">- Gerry Quinn</font></div></font></div>
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