Chronicles of Corum - The Swords Trilogy
That's the first book of Michael Moorcock I read (and despite all the bad things I am going to say - probably not the last one…)
Some cool stuff:
- the world is flat when ruled by Chaos and round when ruled by Law (By the way, did I mention the) (References: Discworld (Terry Pratchett rulez!), Flatland and so on)
- the “companion of heroes” (and Eternal Champion) (these should fall in a “very cool” category)
- the winged-cat – embellished possible fact
Some weird stuff:
- Vhadhagh (elves) space ships
Some (additional) bad stuff:
- Corum also weeps some (Yeah, yeah – in touch with his feminine side, complex character blah-blah, but still if any - that would have been the perfect moment to stick to the good-old-Cohen-the-Barbarian routine)
- puerile plot – book1 - Good vs. Bad, book2 – Good vs. Worse, book3 – Good vs. The Worst (here is a what you could call succinct review: "just as Corum feels like he has settled down and can start a life he gets sucked into more crap in another world. here life goes to hell again and he must fight a new set of demons and monsters")
- style - over-descriptive, touchy-feely (Rhalina weeps once every 10 pages), far-from-original. (Some descriptions – especially of clothes – remind me of figure skating presenters back in the black-and-white TV era: “she has a matte turquoise dress with pink sequins and beige stockings”)
- crude, naturalistic uncalled-for passages (like the detailed description of the human-flees which populate Arioch‘s (lord of Chaos) body that goes on forever… yuck)
- the cover – terrible(!) (any Photoshop-enabled fan could do a better job – hint: jewel (fly-like) right eye, 6 fingered snake-skinned left hand – photogenic!)
- the world is flat when ruled by Chaos and round when ruled by Law (By the way, did I mention the) (References: Discworld (Terry Pratchett rulez!), Flatland and so on)
- the “companion of heroes” (and Eternal Champion) (these should fall in a “very cool” category)
- the winged-cat – embellished possible fact
Some weird stuff:
- Vhadhagh (elves) space ships
Some (additional) bad stuff:
- Corum also weeps some (Yeah, yeah – in touch with his feminine side, complex character blah-blah, but still if any - that would have been the perfect moment to stick to the good-old-Cohen-the-Barbarian routine)
- puerile plot – book1 - Good vs. Bad, book2 – Good vs. Worse, book3 – Good vs. The Worst (here is a what you could call succinct review: "just as Corum feels like he has settled down and can start a life he gets sucked into more crap in another world. here life goes to hell again and he must fight a new set of demons and monsters")
- style - over-descriptive, touchy-feely (Rhalina weeps once every 10 pages), far-from-original. (Some descriptions – especially of clothes – remind me of figure skating presenters back in the black-and-white TV era: “she has a matte turquoise dress with pink sequins and beige stockings”)
- crude, naturalistic uncalled-for passages (like the detailed description of the human-flees which populate Arioch‘s (lord of Chaos) body that goes on forever… yuck)
- the cover – terrible(!) (any Photoshop-enabled fan could do a better job – hint: jewel (fly-like) right eye, 6 fingered snake-skinned left hand – photogenic!)
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