tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537071612815653912.post3025864431418494834..comments2024-03-27T08:19:01.460+00:00Comments on The Marienburg Gazette (Sigmaron Edition) : Epic Pooh - A Timely Antidote To Hobbitses Daveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338536132702316924noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537071612815653912.post-73610194816530114462012-12-05T21:20:05.909+00:002012-12-05T21:20:05.909+00:00Thank you Mouse. I suppose I'm just a fluff bu...Thank you Mouse. I suppose I'm just a fluff bunny trying to be an anarcho-cyborg-rabbit... Daveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338536132702316924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537071612815653912.post-56202902682115272262012-12-05T10:46:09.760+00:002012-12-05T10:46:09.760+00:00And I should say that I do enjoy my subscription t...And I should say that I do enjoy my subscription to the Marienburg Gazette. And I do appreciate your posting of Moorcock's article, crass and preposterous though I think that article is, because I believe that truth is good. And I now know a truth I didn't know before, namely that Michael Moorcock is a posturing and a pretentious jackass...a B writer who, rather than tip his hat to an A writer, will gladly drag that writer's works through a slough of unadulterated bullshit if he thinks he can possibly increase his own stature by doing so. Don't believe I'll ever look at the creator of Elric through the same lens again.<br />Hrrm. Anyway. I do enjoy the blog. You have some great minis and fun features here. Cheers.Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537071612815653912.post-12258726223637448522012-12-05T09:53:19.934+00:002012-12-05T09:53:19.934+00:00Yes I completely agree that Moorcock is at his bes...Yes I completely agree that Moorcock is at his best when he's dashing out pulp with hardly a moment to rest on one idea before flitting to the next. I found his Doctor Who book so irritating and self indulgent that I couldn't read anything else by him for a year. <br /><br />Daveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338536132702316924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537071612815653912.post-24999479869364029902012-12-05T09:35:20.986+00:002012-12-05T09:35:20.986+00:00I should say that I've always loved The Hobbit...I should say that I've always loved The Hobbit. I think it's actually a wonderful oral narrative that just begs to be read aloud. Once my son is a little older (he's currently 3) I'll read it to him at bedtime and I know the experience will be wonderful for both of us. Obviously Moorcock over eggs this particular pudding and as I hadn't done anything vaguely controversial on here for a while I thought I'd stick this out there. <br /><br />I like the way Moorcock shakes things up and lays bare aspects of the national psyche that have shaped - and continue to shape - my own tastes and preferences.Daveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338536132702316924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537071612815653912.post-44227467838044842772012-12-05T07:33:27.377+00:002012-12-05T07:33:27.377+00:00It's not as if Moorcock's writing isn'...It's not as if Moorcock's writing isn't raddled with tedious ponderings about improbable metaphysics, which dress up his pulp potboilers to the point where he can call them 'speculative fiction' with a straight face. At his best Moorcock is inventive and workmanlike, at his worst he's a self-indulgent boor who urgently needs collaborators in order to make him remotely interesting. Best thing he's ever done was <i>Silverheart</i> if you ask me, and that was the one where he wrote a plot for Storm Constantine to put some original and interesting characters in it.<br /><br />I still quite agree with 'Epic Pooh', though. That said, I also still re-read Tolkien. That Moorcock's claims are valid does not invalidate Tolkien, Adams or anyone else who he lambasts - it's a call to read critically rather than uncritically, and a lament that it wasn't something like <i>Gormenghast</i> that lent its shape to the genre, if we must have a fantasy 'genre' at all.Vonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12583821960347555993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537071612815653912.post-86606857200472427812012-12-05T05:44:52.278+00:002012-12-05T05:44:52.278+00:00An Interesting post. I knew nothing of Moorcock&#...An Interesting post. I knew nothing of Moorcock's hatred of Tolkien and Adams before now, but having read his essay, I understand with a bit more clarity why it is that I've always loved and pored over and returned again and again to Tolkien's writings and to Watership Down, but have had a hard time sticking to anything of Moorcock's that wasn't in a graphic format illustrated by P. Craig Russell. Of course I never put Moorcock in anything like the same league as Tolkien or Adams, so there was never any need to seriously compare them. There still isn't.<br /><br />Totally agree with you about the films. For me, they're unwatchable. To anyone who can enjoy them, I say more power to you, but I'll stick with the books.<br /><br />Well, that's quite enough life experience for me for this evening. It gets dangerous out here in the blogosphere, as you know, and that alarms my small-minded, middle-class sensibilities. Now it's back to my rabbit hole and, you know, my quasi-fascist, petit bourgeois nursery language books by Tolkien and Adams which I've loved for years because I'm a racist or something. Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16662424384597893661noreply@blogger.com