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  • Volume 1: Elric of Melnibone, The Fortress of the Pearl, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, and The Weird of the White Wolf
  • By: Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman
  • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
  • Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (29 ratings)

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Elric of Melniboné

By: Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
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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.

©2021 Michael Moorcock and Neil Gaiman (P)2021 Recorded Books

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Classic if not a bit dated.

I remember reading this as a teen and to this day it still has a heavy influence on my taste in Fantasy.

This was a good listen, some mispronunciations here and there, and a few moments where tone and character gets lost, but overall nothing too bad.

The stories themselves range from okay to great with some stand outs and stand out moments. Coming back to Elric was like catching up with an old friend you grew apart from, there is still that initial bond there for sure, but you're different - sometimes both of you.

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good fantasy but shame about the interpretation

Well read but the accents interpreted leave a lot to be desired. Why Welsh?And why a voice like a used car dealer fir a god?

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Ehhhh

Could have done without the 30 minute introductory piece featuring school boys playing with themselves, but the Moorcock stories are as good as I remembered them... if narrated poorly. The narration was scarcely different than if I'd put the contents of the book through text-to-speech and had Microsoft Sam read it to me. Very little emotion. I am glad to have Moorcock's stories in a medium that I actually have the time for, however.

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Timeless High Fantasy at its Best

These stories are as riveting and exciting as I remember them. Couldn't wait to hear what happens next. I love them. There's some reviews criticising the narrator but he is excellent, great voices and effective pauses when you need to hear the details. I wish more audiobooks were as good as these.

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Excellent Books. AUDIBLE Australia need to get the other volumes online in Australia ASAP.

Excellent stories, well read. I only wish AUDIBLE would get the remaining volumes online in Australia.

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Shame about the narration

An interesting enough collection of stories but I found it very difficult to follow due to the dull narration. The narration was technically very good, but it sounded like it was read by a newsreader or a narrator from those old documentaries you used to watch in school. Some of the character voices were quite good but overall I found it very easy to lose focus. They could have saved some money and just used text to speech software.

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Horrible Narration

I've read all of the stories contained in this volume several times over the past 40 odd years. I've been watching this release and I was really looking to finally listening to it. But it's awful. Apart from the narrator occasionally calling Elric, Eric my main gripe is that other than Elric and Yrkoon all the other members of the noble, Melnibonean race sound like either East End London bouncers or Yorkshiremen. It's really bloody awful.
There's also the pronunciation of Arioch which the narrator pronounces Eery-uk. Which, as a long time fan of Moorcock, I find to be really annoying.
I returned the book. Not because of the writing but because of the lazy and lousy performance by the narrator.

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