The English Assassin [Mass Market Paperback]

Michael Moorcock (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Harper & Row; 1st US Ed edition (1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060130032
• ISBN-13: 978-0060130039
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,291,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The English Assassin; what does it mean?, November 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The English Assassin (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is remotely enjoyable, but is hard to understand, due to the way time changes and the plot jumps. I also had a hard time with Michael Moorcock's writing (he had a 27 line sentence) which makes the book even harder to understand. The sections entitled "Alternative Apocalypse" and "Late News" were enjoyable to read, but failed in any way to comprehensibly relate to the book.

4.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader, August 29, 2007

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The English Assassin (Mass Market Paperback)

The titular life remover, is, of course Jerry Cornelius himself. Again this is a book where England is an important part, or the collapse of England under the weight of its problems, and war.

Jerry, in a bad way, will again have to deal with his considerably healthier for a change relatives, and Brunner, Beesley, and others,

The usual happens, with the odd attempt to rule the world.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moorcock is a splendid mix of William S burroughs, Dickens, and Philip K Dick, March 14, 2011

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Armando Gonzalez "helioslightbearer" (milwaukee) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: English Assassin (Hardcover)

The whole of the book: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was all blended together and being offered in several alternatives.
This is quite simply the most involving human story I have ever read.
P.S
Yes. To understand this you will have to read carefully and indepth and perhaps a second or even a third time.