I'm on the first story, I've never dropped a book before, besides Tales of the Dying Earth, other than just being too busy to finish it, but this is miserable, and Neil Gaiman's short story already made me consider dropping it, but this first Elric story is such a miserable slog. Talk me into sucking it up and getting through it.

I love sword and sorcery, I just finished reading all of Lieber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories and have been excited to start Moorcock, but from what Ive seen this is supposed to be some of his best work?