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  <title><![CDATA[The Vanishing Tower (Elric, Book 4)]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[Michael Moorcock, The Vanishing Tower (DAW, 1970)<br/><br/>Some wag is bound to notice the odd release dates on the DAW definitive editions of the six &quot;classic&quot; Elric novels and ask &quot;what's up?&quot; It only starts making sense when you pair the books with the events therein; Moorcock...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13282596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are certain places in fiction that seems to have a life of their own, that seem to exist outside of ink and paper, Rick’s Café, Yoknapatawpha County, Lankhmar, The House of the Last Lamp, or Tanelorn where weary heroes go to find peace.<br/><br/>Elric of Melniboné is not the average sword ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29718179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More than any other series, the Elric books by Moorcock pulled me into the fantasy genre and cemented my love of reading.  I remember on summer visiting my father in OK, going to a book fair, and finding these books.  I must have been about 11 years old.  I consumed these books and was forever chang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35303090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fourth book in the Elric saga serves more as an primer to Michael Moorcock's Multiverse and the Eternal Champion yet also moves the plot along towards its inevitable conclusion.<br/><br/>After more mundane adventures, Elric joins other versions of the Eternal Champion to destroy the Vanishing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5722415">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Technically, I've read the book before, but it was over twenty years ago.]]></body>
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