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Elric of Melniboné
- Volume 1: Elric of Melnibone, The Fortress of the Pearl, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, and The Weird of the White Wolf
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent Melniboné, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and reflected a more up-to-date sophistication of theme and style. The result was a bold and unique hero - weak in body, subtle in mind, dependent on drugs for the vitality to sustain himself - with great crimes behind him and a greater destiny ahead: a rock-and-roll antihero who would channel all the violent excesses of the '60s into one enduring archetype.
Now, presented in the author's preferred story order, the classic Elric saga.
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- Djinni
- 14-08-24
Fantastic Reader
A tale to satisfy my voracious fantasy appetite for majick and intrigue! Exceptionally beautifully read.
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- Boyan
- 18-03-22
Not great, not terrible
I can see how those books have been inspiration for some of my favorite books and video games today but the series kind of got worse as it went. The first two books in the collection are good although the style in the first is a bit weird. The third book in the collection is okay but nothing to write home about and the fourth is a bit of a disjointed mess IMO.
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- L
- 25-04-23
A fantastic listen
An absolutely gripping listen, despite a few quibbles.
One: It's Elric, not Eric!
Two: What the hell is up with Neil Gaiman and that short story that seems to talk about nothing but young boys masturbating? The man must be on a list...
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- Hylton
- 21-04-24
Fantastic
The eternal champion set of books are my favourite books I have ever read so glad to get a audio book version and man the voice acting is sooo damn good my only problem is I need the rest of the eternal champion series. Yes all of it 😜
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- Tim Browning
- 11-07-22
Takes me back
Great to hear Elric again, great antihero. well narrated.
I hope for all the other incarnations
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- Brinkus
- 24-03-22
One of the most original fantasies of modern times
Superb! Bringing back many memories of first encountering these stories as an adolescent. Still one of the most inventive and influential fantasies of modern times. Cannot recommend highly enough, the reading is excellent and the opportunity to experience the tales in the order the author prefers is a joy!
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- SAQ
- 01-04-22
Found it challenging
Nearly forty years ago a friend read the Elric stories and tried to get get me into them but they sounded too exotic and out there for my taste. So when this came onto audible I thought I give it a go and I have to agree with 15 year old me. I found the stories a bombardment of ideas but with very little fleshed out before being hit by the next one almost like a child telling you a story. I know the Elric tales are much loved and many of Michael Moorcock’s ideas have been plundered by the Movie industry and other platforms but they just aren’t for my plane of existence.
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- Barking Geek
- 20-05-24
did a deaf person edit this?
His name is Elric, not Eric. It was very distracting and should have been picked up in editing. Good narration otherwise. I found myself waiting for the next time he said, Eric. Moorcock's storytelling is superb and is read with a good cadence and characterisation.
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- Rory Patton
- 15-05-22
As Good as I remembered
It must be half a century since I first read Elric of Melnibone. It made lasting impression that has survived my revisiting it. It is still a great book, a classic. Samuel Roukin's performance vividly brought the characters and events alive without displacing my remembered images. If anything I love this even more than the first time I read it. It is a must read for any lover of fantasy literature. It is the source of many of the staple archetypes of the genre.
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- Ml Davies
- 10-07-24
So influential
This was the first time I have listened to Elric and it’s clear how influential Michael Moorcock was with his albino eternal champion. Whether it is Geralt of Rivea or Daemon Targaryen, both have the same look and style if missing the black runesword.
It was a great performance of this book and I wish there were more stories on Audible.
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