Breakfast in the Ruins

by Michael Moorcock

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394490681
• ISBN13: 9780394490687
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Behold the sequel

Well, not really a sequel to "Behold the Man," but using similar thematics and characters with the same name, Moorcock continues to explore the Glogauer archetype in a series of vignettes that don't build to one culminating picture, but stand well on their own. The other reviews here are misleading. They seem to think that Moorcock was going for a single character or something, and anyone who's read deep into Moorcock's multiverse (especially the Cornelius books) knows that these are a single facet that's been mirrored through a nearly infinite set of universes, and there's no reason to rely on consistency in the character.I dislike a lot of Moorcock's writing, specifically the sword and sorcery stuff (which he claims is different from the rest of the genre, but looks the same to me) which he's tried to cut and paste into the rest of his schema--but the Glogauer books (Behold the Man and this) are two of his best. I recommend Behold the Man and The Black Corridor if you've never tried him, and if you like that, then go on to The Dancers at the End of Time books. Avoid books with rune, sword, or wolf in their title.