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Title	:	King of the City (London Novels #2)
Author	:	Michael Moorcock
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	December 3rd 2002 by Harper Perennial (first published May 2nd 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Novels. Science Fiction

King of the City (London Novels #2) Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

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Michael Moorcock, returns with the story of the times and trials of Dennis Dover, former rock guitarist, photojournalist, paparazzo, and loyal denizen of Mother London, and his brilliant, beautiful, and socially conscious cousin, Rosie Beck. Since childhood they have been inseparable, delighting in the daily discoveries of a life with no limits. But now a powerful, unstoppable force that consumes the past indiscriminately, leaving nothing of substance in its wake, threatens the metropolis that nurtured them.

The terminator is named John Barbican Begg. A hanger-on from Denny and Rosie's youth, he has become the morally corrupt center of their London, and the richest, most rapacious creature in the Western Hemisphere, with but one goal: to devour the entire world. And their only choices left are to join in, drop out ... or plot to destroy him.

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Original Title:	King of the City
ISBN:	0380795035 (ISBN13: 9780380795031)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	London Novels #2

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Ratings: 3.74 From 122 Users | 9 Reviews

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Boring. Plot: 2/10 - where is this going? I can't be bothered to find out... Overall 2/10

Full of dense, wonderful prose - it took me a long time to read it, but I didn't care, enjoying it all so much and soaking it in. Seamlessly moves between the fictional and non-fictional. The lead character has Lemmy come over for breakfast in one of the memorable set pieces and there is a wonderful passage on the death of Princess Dian. I want to visit Brookgage, The Mill and some of the other locations, but they don't actually exist. Moorcock has captured London in spirit wonderfully. Possibly

I love this book. Perfect sequel to the entirely different 'Mother London'. Uplifting. Equally good on rereading.

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Full of dense, wonderful prose - it took me a long time to read it, but I didn't care, enjoying it all so much and soaking it in. Seamlessly moves between the fictional and non-fictional. The lead character has Lemmy come over for breakfast in one of the memorable set pieces and there is a wonderful passage on the death of Princess Dian. I want to visit Brookgage, The Mill and some of the other locations, but they don't actually exist. Moorcock has captured London in spirit wonderfully. Possibly

Maybe I would have liked this book more if I were a Londoner, as it does feel like it gives a good, nostalgic view of many periods of the city.And I do like the characters. Oh sure, we've seen the archetypes before in Elric, Cymoril, and Yyrkoon, in Jerry, Catherine, and Frank, but Denny, Rose, and Barbican are very much their own people, enriched by their connections to Moorcock's mythology, not lessened by it.But the story, oh the story, it just isn't there. King of the City is 400 pages of