The White Wolf: The Elric Saga Part 3 (3) (Elric Saga, The) Hardcover – October 25, 2022

I’ve loved this store for years. I can’t wait to reread it. The book came in fantastic shape.

Michael Moorcock is a great story teller

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The greatest saga ever told.

It’s fun reading old books about Nazis and seeing the banality of evil never changes even when the evil is orange.

The problem with these stories is the same Moorcock had with the Revenge of the Rose: too much of himself and his own musings find their way into the story and, quite frankly, it's just not Elric. It's Moorcock pontificating on philosophy and (historically inaccurate) politics. Including "larger/more important" themes in fiction doesn't automatically make the work worse, but it does here. The asides seem shoehorned in; they're clunky and lack any real substance. Moorcock's overly long (and misguided) ruminations on Hitler and his followers goes on for paragraphs at a time to simply repeat "everybody knows" theories because Moorcock, limited by his own outlook, can't simply call him evil. He has to go with the ol' "madness" canard and it gets tiresome. Ulric von Bek too often seems a self-insert and so the lecturing comes across just as that - oh, I, Ulric, have these various weaknesses and flaws (good character work) but I am also so perceptive that I can see right through these "types" of people (no! No! Bad author!)In the first two books in this series Moorcock wove what may very well be his outlook on life into the mythology of Elric's world(s) and it worked just fine. It wasn't intrusive, it blended with the fiction he was creating, and actually helped strengthen the world of Elric. It BENEFITED the stories. But, starting with RotR, it became heavy handed, extraneous, unnecessary, and boring. Elric's dark brooding on chaos and order within the first two books in this series (RotR notwithstanding) just seemed to fit. It flowed, it was (though I hate this overused word) *organic*.I don't know if Moorcock has lost his way with Elric or if he's just more interested in these other topics. I guess we'll find out in a few days when the new book is released. I truly hope it's a return to form and not more of what is to be found in RotR and this (sometimes frustratingly great) tome.

I bought this (and the other two volumes in the series) as the description stated "brought to vivid new life with stunning illustrations." Only to receive the book and find there really are no illustrations. There is the art that is on the cover, (which about every book ever made will have). The interior of the cover has a drawn map. Then at the end of the preface there is a single small sketch drawing. That is the extent of the illustrations. I read the Elric stories in my youth and was looking forward to a nice edition of the series. I feel pretty scammed and mislead here. As this is a collected edition of stories, there is less illustrations than if you just had the covers of the individual books. What a sham. Don't buy these editions and support this scam. I feel bad giving a 1 star rating to an otherwise great series. But this review is based solely on this edition and pressing of the book being sold as illustrated when it is not.

When you cynically market something as an Elric story, people expect a particular thing. When it's not that thing, people feel cheated.The writing is solid so if you weren't expecting Elric it's probably enjoyable. If you were expecting stories about Elric kinslaying and emo-ing over his tragic fate, you'll be more and more disappointed as you go along. If you enjoy Moorcock's von Bek stories, you'll probably find yourself somewhere in the middle. The von Bek v Gaynor v Klosterheim schtick is a little played-out for me.

An amazing storyteller and displayed in a good quality book

Finally, an edition of Michael Moorcock’s work that respects not only the author but also the subject within. A gorgeous book of beautiful stories. I wish there were more illustrations, perhaps placed throughout the book, but what is there is great.So glad to have such a definitive version so beautifully presented, sitting on my shelves at last.