Title: Not a good introduction to Moorcock
Product review: Strange but true: I got this book as a birthday present from my AUNT when I was 12. Had she read it, I'm sure her heart would have skipped a beat and she would have headed for a confessional fast. This is a dark, disjointed novel which should supposedly please fans of time travel but it doesn't. The main character ages year by year in each chapter, traveling from one depressing historical setting to another. Particularly unsettling is the chapter where he slaughters a whole Vietnamese village. Interspersed are passages on his growing sexual awakening--growing homosexual awakening, I might add: here I was reading this stuff at 12! By the way, doesn't the guy on the paperback cover look like Sting?
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