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I found the nobles of Granbretan with their Nihilism far more interesting, even though they were of course very bad. Were much more interesting characters ( although the Corum series itself was bad ) Hawkmoon on the other hand did not seem to have any real depth and I really disliked him in the end. It seems that Moorcock enjoys the intial world building part then gets bored. Runestaff had interesting bits but followed the pattern of a number of Moorcock's books in this theme of the eternal champion in that it devolved into a scavenger hunt, with the hero moving from one magic object to another. Recently I found the set used as a single volume and tried again but got bogged down again. However it really treaded familiar ground and I did not read the other volumes.

I had the first book year's ago and found Granbretan (I would love it presented by Peake) and the French setting of Castle Brass interesting. I noticed you had reviewed this last night and was inspired to read the final book. Such antics are indeed only “entertainments,” the overall effect far from

Readers to puzzle out, but they diminish the integrity of the work, making that The in-jokes and double-entendres may be fun for Mieville or other The Beatles are found in Jhone, Jhorg, Phowl, and Runga, Brian Aldiss inījrin Adass, and J.G. Londra), Paris Parye, Turkey Turkia, and so on. Great Britain has become Granbretan (capital Voice, the familiarity of the places Hawkmoon’s adventures and battles take himĭon’t quite fit the mythic voice used to describe said adventures. Which automatically creates releationships in the reader’s mind as they Setting different in the details but readily recognizable in form and name, The Runestaff Moorcock simply Medievalizes futuristic Earth to create a Gene Wolfe rendering his dying Earth of The Book of the New Sun so different as Warring lands, etc.), it is essentially for one reason the two differ: setting. (tragic hero, Pyrric victories, sword fights, sorcery, fantastical creatures,